The Refined Canine

The Refined Canine is a dog grooming business at Northgate, in Adelaide's inner north, run by a groomer clients refer to as Amanda. Feedback is unusually consistent on one point: dogs come home soft, shiny and smelling good, and they come home settled. An owner of a ten-year-old dog notes there were no signs of stress afterwards, and a long-standing pug client says her dog is always happy to arrive and be left for his appointment.

Communication is the other thread running through the reviews. Clients describe Amanda as wonderful to deal with in the lead-up to an appointment and cheerful in person, which several say makes drop-off easy. The standard is described as reliably good rather than occasionally so, with people who have used her over a long stretch reporting the same result each time. No single breed dominates the feedback, so it reads as a general grooming service, well suited to older dogs and to owners who care as much about how their dog feels afterwards as how it looks.