Hands-on training with real dogs and real clients, taught by the husband-and-wife owners of a busy Upstate salon since 2018. Four months, financing available, and help landing a job when you finish.
Free 15-minute call. See if you qualify, get the full schedule and your financing options.
Two quick questions and the team calls you to lock in your call time. On the call you get the full schedule, your financing options, and a straight answer on whether this is for you. Free, no obligation.
15 minutes with someone who knows the salon. No pitch deck, no pressure. You leave knowing exactly where you stand.
3 or 4 days a week, 8-hour days, four months. We'll show you which route fits around your life.
Tuition, payment plans, and financing, explained in plain English. Your $2,000 pro toolkit is included.
If grooming isn't right for you, we'll say so. If it is, you can start within 30 days and get six months of job help after class.
Free. No obligation. Only 10 students at a time.
Sunnyside has trained 20+ students over the years, and most of them are grooming for a living today. Here are three of them. More stories are being added as graduates send them in.
Free. No obligation. Only 10 students at a time.
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Real grooms off the Sunnyside table. Not stock photos. Tap any one to see it full size.
Free. No obligation. Only 10 students at a time.
Grooming is a hands-on skill. You learn it on real dogs, with a pro beside you. Here's the difference.
3 days a week · 384 hours. The full program, your toolkit, your certification, and six months of job help after class.
Up to 4 days a week · 512 hours. Everything in Route One, plus a career roadmap, resume, portfolio, interview prep and employer intros.
Want your own grooming business? A franchise opportunity with training that keeps going after class and a Sunnyside manager by your side while you launch. Details on the call.
Not ready for the full program? There's a bathing class, and cat grooming is available too. Ask on the call.
We'll walk you through all three routes and which one fits you.
Learn the trade, then let us help you land the job. Salons call us looking for graduates, and we make the calls for you.
For six months after class, Charles and Vicki stay on it with you: calls, introductions, and openings in their own salons. Not a guarantee, but a team that actually picks up the phone.
Salons, mobile groomers, vets and pet stores all need trained hands. You can work for someone, go mobile, or build your own book of clients.
Once you can groom, nobody can take it from you. It travels with you, it's useful for your own pets, and it pays by the hour, the dog, or the day.
4.7 stars · 300+ Google reviews across our two Upstate salons.
Charles and Vicki Haynes have owned Sunnyside Grooming Salon since 2018, with 36 years of grooming between them and both still grooming every week. They started the academy because they kept hitting the same problem every salon owner around here has: there aren't enough well-trained groomers to hire.
So they started teaching people themselves, in the salon, the way they were taught.
Capped at 10 students so every trainee gets real chair time. Once tuition is paid you start within 30 days. Financing available.
