Corinna started her own Dog Salon “ ’t Trimmertje” in 1996, after being a veterinary assistant and 2 years of education. From the beginning, it was clear that she wanted to do more. Her passion for dog grooming grew further into the show world. You can see her at work in various grooming and styling [...]

Martial Carré is a professional groomer with almost 30 years of experience. He started as a behavior therapist for dogs, but his passion for grooming began with the pet of his grandmother. He built up a small customer base by word of mouth publicity. Then he wanted to give himself 100% to practice his passion [...]

A graphic designer and Art Director by profession, Anders is a top breeder of Standard Poodles under the prefix ‘Avatar’ in Sweden. Anders has been involved with Poodles since the mid 70′s and finished over 80 champions, many top and BIS winners. As a small scale breeder he has bred champions in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, [...]

Growing up, Barb knew that her life would include spending as much time as possible around dogs. In 1995 she attended her first International grooming contest and realized what an amazing opportunities existed for groomers worldwide.  Since then she has attended countless competitions and seminars around the world, soaking up any and all knowledge available [...]

Betty Smit has had her own grooming salon in Amstelveen for 30 years now. Her hobby has become her job with great success. Meanwhile, she’s also an examiner at the training center in Barneveld and has been training interns for years. Her interest in the Scottish Terrier started about 21 years ago. After winning her [...]

This highly successful handler is originally from Italy. Biagio’s a true poodle artist! He has never had an education in a grooming school, but because of his determination, his endurance and by watching intensively the show ring at dog shows, he has taught himself everything! 6 Months after he started grooming, he won his first [...]

This World famous handler was born in Alsace, France. His career began in 1996 when he graduated with great honor as a dog groomer. He first entered a grooming competition in 1998 where he immediately won in the beginners category and since then he has won multiple medals and first prizes. In 2000 he received [...]

The American Irina “Pina” Pinkusevich” has been a pet stylist for over 20 years now! She is a very competitive groomer and educates in the United States. During her first 3 years in the competition ring, she achieved an unbelievable amount of success! She was the #1 groomer in the States and 2 years out of [...]

Lindsey started in the animal industry young, preparing and showing horses before moving on to dogs. Since the beginning of her dog grooming career, Lindsey has traveled all over the country and won multiple “Best All Around Groomer Awards”, “Best Scissored Poodle”, “World Champion Poodle Groomer”, and Intergroom’s “American Groomer of the Year”. She received the [...]

Mario lives in Portugal and is a very well known professional handler. His career started at the age of 19 when he bought his first dog and started working as a groomer. Very soon he started showing English and American Cockers with great results. Together with his wife he started a successful kennel under the [...]

Mirjam was born on November 17th of 1966. Her mother was also a dog groomer, so at a very young age she started to help her out. In 1987 she started working as a certified dog groomer. This talented lady has won plenty Gold, Silver and Bronze medals as well as Best in Show and [...]

Monique has been a groomer since 1970 and is specialized in scissor breeds. Her last championship was “Eurokru 2001″ at Berlin. She was the winner of the “Winnerscircle” with a Kerry Blue, gold winner with a Bichon Frisé and also gold winner with a Poodle. Since then she’s been an international Judge and also the [...]

Monja Hermans- Remmerswaal is a succesfull groomer who works at the wholesale business for groomers, Jetty Vanderhulst Specials. But as groomer she specialises in the coat care of the Labradoodles, Golden Doodles and Poodles. She also gives specialisation courses about this dogs. She regularly shows Poodles but at the moment she’s mostly at work in [...]

Natalia Pecherkina from Russia is a very famous and successful breeder of the Kerry Blue Terrier. She has won multiple prizes with her dogs and is well known to be the best Kerry groomer in the world.

Olga is a Nationally and Internationally Certified Master Groomer . She has groomed competitively throughout the U.S. since 2003 and has multiple “Best in Show” and “Best All Round Groomer” wins as well as 2 prestigious “Winners Circle Champion ” titles. Olga was awarded a Lynn Carver Memorial Award “Best All Round Stylist 2009″. Olga [...]

Olivier has been a professional groomer for over 20 years. He’s specialised in grooming cats, for which he has a real passion! He’s originally from Alsace in France, but it was in Belgium that he discovered his love for cats, more precisely for Persians. Later on the passion for grooming them only grew. When he [...]

Gammella Raffaella opened her first grooming salon and school in 1995 in Viterbo. Later on, in 2011, she moved to Mestre. She knew a lot of success in the most important national and international grooming competitions and qualified every time at the top: 1 BIS, 5 gold medals, 5 silver and 2 bronze.  When Raffaella [...]

Rony is owner of the grooming salon ‘Folini’, which is specialized in terriers. He is the winner of several titles and medals at grooming contests at home and abroad and is regularly asked as a jury for grooming contests. Besides all this, Rony is also the owner of the famous Lakeland and Wire Fox Terriër [...]

Shaunna was born into a “dog family” and throughout her childhood her family bred Irish Setters, Labrador Retrievers, Akitas, Poodles and several other breeds. The family also ran a very large facility that provided grooming, training, (conformation as well as obedience) and a boarding kennel. As well, the family ran several other grooming salons. All [...]

Sue is a Certified Master Groomer with both the National Dog Groomers Association (NDGAA) and the International Professional Groomers (IPG).  She has been grooming for over 30 years, starting her business “The Pampered Pet” in Paxton MA in 1977.  She started to compete in grooming competitions in 1985 and since then has won Gold, Silver [...]

Warren the famous handler from Wales UK will share his knowledge of preparing and grooming on the Airedale terrier and other terrier breeds.Warren himself has been born and bred into a ‘typical dog family” and as a child grew up alongside the Kerry Blue terriers that his parents bred and showed. Throughout his childhood he and his [...]