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English|Who Are Making All the Money in the Pet Grooming Industry in China?

English|Who Are Making All the Money in the Pet Grooming Industry in China?
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As more and more people in China become interested in having a pet at their homes, the demand for pet grooming services also rises. Pet groomer emerges as an appealing profession in the country as well. Now it is not uncommon to see advertisements from pet grooming schools on the Internet. Many of these advertisements claim that it only takes beginners a couple of thousand yuan of tuition fee and one month to become professional groomers. Trainees graduating from a grooming program can also open their grooming establishment, the advertisements say.
“You can earn around 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year from opening a grooming business in a first-tier city. In a second-tier or third-tier city, people can make at least 80,000 yuan and up to 150,000 yuan a year,” an employee of a pet grooming school said. “If you have no plan to start up your own business, we can also recommend job opportunities to our trainees.”
However, some pet grooming business owners revealed that they could not really make much money out of the grooming business.
Is it true that the pet grooming industry has low thresholds for entry? If pet grooming businesses are not making money, who are actually profiting in this line of business?
Doing it for loveChina’s pet industry is booming. Pet owners’ spending on pet grooming services and products is only second to medical services for pets in all costs associated with pet-keeping, according to statistics from market research firm Qianzhan Industry Research Institute.
Pet groomers emerge as a seemingly popular profession. “There are not that many pet groomers. Some senior groomers will get really high paid offers,” a pet business owner at Liyuan in Beijing’s Tongzhou district said.
A job that allows people to be around cute animals all day naturally appeals to young people who adore pets.
Tang Xin, a young girl born in 1998, went to study at a grooming school for a month so as to groom her own puppy at home. She later became a professional pet groomer and is working as a shop manager at a pet shop.
“Two of my colleagues at the shop were born in the 1990s. I also had colleagues that were born in the 2000s,” Tang said.
For many young people, pet grooming is a dirty and exhausting job. Many people have quit this line of business for that. People who have stayed are basically “doing it for love”.
“Like we would be covered in dog hair after grooming dogs. Some girls really don’t like it. So they would think about quitting,” Tang explained.
A grooming session generally takes at least an hour. The most time-consuming session that Tang had had was with a giant poodle. Showering and grooming the giant poodle took Tang more than five hours.
The nature of pet grooming work requires professional talents to have patience. Cooperation from the fluffy customers is also a must to get the work done well. “Dogs will be very intense when being showered. They will be very exhausted after showering. So we need to constantly comfort them and make sure they don’t fall asleep when grooming them. We need them to keep standing to groom them,” Tang explained.
Despite the heavy work, pet grooming does bring joy to some of the professional talents and entrepreneurs in this business.
“It is easier to get along with cats and dogs. It is difficult to communicate with them. But they bear no bad intention,” Tang said. “I have a colleague who had worked at companies before. He had to deal with complicated office politics. Pet grooming might exhaust him physically but it does not create mental pressure on him.”

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