Styling Poochies Dog Grooming

Styling Poochies Dog Grooming is a small, owner-run salon in Sydenham, in Melbourne's north-west, where Angelica does the grooming herself. Reviewers most often name small and toy breeds — Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and a Maltese Shih Tzu among them — and describe grooms done to the brief they asked for, with dogs coming home tidy and smelling clean.

The quality that surfaces in nearly every account is calm. Owners arriving for a first appointment describe their nerves settling once they met her, and several say their dogs are visibly happy to head in. One long-standing client credits the difference in her nervous dog to grooming here regularly. Care and gentle handling get mentioned as often as the haircut itself, which makes this a sensible option for owners of small dogs that find grooming stressful, or anyone who has had an unhappy experience elsewhere and wants an unhurried, one-on-one appointment.