Pawpad Applied Canine & Feline Grooming Certification (PACGC) — a comprehensive 7-week grooming certification for beginners and aspiring professionals building toward a career in pet grooming, with both dogs and cats.
The course is built around reading an animal before touching it, consent-based technique, and a real working understanding of canine and feline anatomy and physiology. It is for those ready to move past “hold them down and get it done” — and it explicitly rejects restraint and forced compliance in favour of observation, comfort, consent, and skill built the safe way.
No industry experience required. No dog or cat of your own required.
In-person, small-cohort, and heavily practical. Students move through live demonstrations, supervised model practice, and hands-on work with real dogs and cats under direct instructor supervision — theory in the first three weeks, technique in the last four. Nobody's first attempt at bathing, brushing, ear cleaning, or clipping happens on a live animal; nail trimming is taught through repeated live demonstration before you practice it yourself.
On successful completion: the Pawpad Applied Canine & Feline Grooming Certification (PACGC), recognising comprehensive competence with both dogs and cats, taught at full depth for each. Grooming is a skill that develops at different paces for different people — Pawpad's advice, regardless of pace, is to gain supervised experience before working independently, and Pawpad offers placement support into a supervised role for graduates who want it. Graduates may also choose to sit an internationally recognised certification exam at their own additional cost, billed at actuals — a species-specific track for dogs, and a separate one for cats.
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