Professional Pet Grooming – 600 Clock Hours – This program is designed to assist the student with obtaining the necessary skills to professionally groom dogs in a salon, mobile grooming, house call grooming, veterinary practice or other animal care settings. In order to teach the pet grooming skills, the program focuses on working with grooming equipment, customer relations, bathing, hair drying, ear cleaning, combing, brushing, dematting, breed recognition, first aid, styling, diseases of the skin, perfection of scissor work which is covered in the first 550 hours of lab work in the school and online. The last 50 hours is an externship outside of the school. The student is placed in a real world setting such as veterinary practice, mobile grooming van, salon or in a house call grooming environment to apply its learned skills and improve upon them.
Professional Pet Grooming with Anesthetic Free Teeth Scaling – 900 Clock Hours – This program is designed to assist the student with obtaining the necessary skills to professionally groom dogs in a salon, mobile grooming, house call grooming, veterinary practice or other animal care settings. In order to teach the pet grooming skills, the program focuses on working with grooming equipment, customer relations, bathing, hair drying, ear cleaning, combing, brushing, dematting, breed recognition, first aid, styling, diseases of the skin, perfection of scissor work which is covered in the first 550 hours of lab work in the school and online. In addition, the student will learn the skills needed to perform anesthetic-free teeth scaling on dogs and cats. Students will also learn how to properly chart a pet’s teeth as well as tooth diseases, animal behavior, physiology and basic first aid on animals. This part of the program will consist of 300 hours. The last 50 hours is an externship outside of the school. The student is placed in a real-world setting such as veterinary practice, mobile grooming van, salon or in a house call grooming environment to apply its learned skills and improve upon them.
Anesthetic Free Teeth Scaling – 300 Clock Hours – This program is designed to professional pet groomers, veterinary assistants and veterinary technicians wanting to add non anesthetic teeth scaling to the services they offer their clients, allowing them to offer even more complete pet care. The student will learn the skills needed to perform anesthetic free scaling on dogs and cats. Students will also learn how to properly chart a pet’s teeth as well as tooth diseases, animal behavior, physiology and basic first aid on animals.
Course 101 is a 500-hour program in which students learn the entire grooming process, start to finish, for all categories of dog breeds. During this course, students utilize instruction to practice their own techniques. This course is a hands-on learning experience which is graded according to evaluations of the instructors.
Course 106 is a 100-hour externship in which students will practice what they’ve learned throughout their time at Merryfield in a professional grooming setting. Not only does this provide needed experience, but also the daily workings of business including customer service, sales objectives, time management, and more. Once 100 hours is complete, a report must be submitted filled out by the owner of a business to receive credit.
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