How to choose a dog groomer in Chichester and Bognor Regis

Dog grooming is unregulated in the UK, so the checking is on you. This directory covers Chichester, Bognor Regis, Selsey and the Witterings, Midhurst and Petworth, Petersfield and Liss, Haslemere, Billingshurst and Pulborough, and the Arundel edge: eight postcode-district areas across West Sussex and into Hampshire and the Surrey border, bundled into one listing because each area on its own is too small to stand alone. Read this before you pick a groomer.

Only the phone-confirmed listings are live so far

Forty dog grooming businesses were researched for this area, and 25 of them have a phone number confirmed from an independent source. This directory publishes those 25 only. The other 15 have a confirmed address but no phone number that could be verified yet; a phone-lookup pass that fills in gaps like this from independent records has not yet run for this area, so rather than guess at a number, those 15 businesses are left out for now and will be added once their phone details are confirmed.

Confidence levels

Of the 25 published businesses, 15 were confirmed from a working business website plus at least one other independent source (marked high confidence). The other 10 are medium confidence, usually meaning the details come from a directory listing, a Facebook page, or a phone number confirmed independently rather than the business's own working site. None of the 25 published listings is low confidence: the businesses researched at low confidence all lack a verifiable phone number and are among the 15 not yet published, so no listing here carries an unconfirmed-address caveat.

Why a Chichester address doesn't always mean the Chichester area

Businesses in this directory are grouped by postcode district, not by the town name in their address, so a few Chichester-addressed businesses sit under a different area heading. Hawkins & Hound gives a Chichester address but its PO20 postcode places it in Selsey & the Witterings, alongside genuine Selsey businesses. Ella's Bark House is based in Storrington, in the RH20 postcode district, so it appears under Billingshurst & Pulborough even though its own website mentions Arundel as a loose area reference too. If a listing's area heading looks like a surprise for its address, this is usually why.

Coverage is thin in some areas

With 25 published listings spread across eight areas, coverage is uneven. Midhurst & Petworth currently has one published listing (Admired Pooches, in Lodsworth) and Arundel & the Littlehampton edge also has one (The Wag Club, in Arundel itself) — not enough for a real comparison in either area yet. Haslemere has two (Hilltop Grooming and Lots of Love and Dogs). Selsey & the Witterings and Petersfield & Liss each have three. Chichester itself and Billingshurst & Pulborough each have four. Bognor Regis is the best-covered area here, with seven. If your area shows only one or two listings, it's worth also checking the neighbouring area above, since a mobile groomer based there may still cover you.

Two salons named Bentleys

Bentleys Dog Groomers operates as three separate registered companies with three separate salons: Chichester, Petersfield and Southampton. The Chichester and Petersfield salons are both listed here, kept as two distinct businesses and named accordingly as "Bentleys Dog Groomers (Chichester)" and "Bentleys Dog Groomers (Petersfield)" so neither is mistaken for the other or for the Southampton branch.

Who was left out, and why

Besides the 15 no-phone businesses awaiting a future top-up, several others were researched and excluded outright. A handful of Arundel-area businesses whose only reachable listing was a social media page with no separate website could not be confirmed and are not included. A few business websites returned a broken or unreachable domain and were dropped unless their address could be confirmed independently elsewhere. Several businesses just outside the eight named postcode districts are excluded as out of area, including operators actually based in Liphook, Coolham, Crawley, Guildford, Brighton, Bordon and Worthing rather than within this directory's coverage. National chains are excluded throughout, including a Pets at Home branch in Chichester.

Qualifications

City & Guilds training comes up often here: The Canine Cabin, The Bark House Pet Spa (Kate, Level 3 Professional Diploma), Admired Pooches (Vicky Davey, Level 3, trained at Chichester College), The Dog Groomer in Liss (Sam, Level 2, trained at Merrist Wood College in Guildford) and Ella's Bark House (Debbie and Claire, both Level 3). Other qualifications named include an OCN London Level 3 diploma and K9 first aid certificate at Groom Vroom, an iPET Network Level 3 diploma at Lots of Love and Dogs and at Dolly's Dog Grooming & Spa, and Fear Free certification, a low-stress handling standard, at Fearless Fur.

Mobile and home-based groomers

Three of the 25 are mobile services that travel to you rather than working from a fixed salon: Fearless Fur (Chichester and the surrounding area), Groom Vroom (Bognor Regis to Worthing) and Dolly's Dog Grooming & Spa (Pulborough). Several others are home-based or one-to-one operations working from a single salon: Admired Pooches in Lodsworth and The Dog Groomer in Liss both groom one dog at a time by appointment, and Hilltop Grooming in Haslemere is a cage-free studio run on the same basis.

Cats and other animals

Scruffy to Fluffy Pet Grooming in Bognor Regis grooms cats as well as dogs, drawing on more than 13 years' experience with both. No other published listing in this directory confirms grooming any animal besides dogs.

Reviews

No business in this directory carries a star rating here, because none has a rating from an independent, verifiable source such as Google, Trustpilot, Fresha, Booksy or Yelp on record. One business's own website quotes a star rating and review count, but a business's claim about itself is not treated as independent evidence, so it is not shown. Ask to see recent work, or photos of dogs with a similar coat to yours, before booking.

Area coverage totals

The 15 excluded no-phone businesses, and the researched-but-dropped businesses named above, are expected to be revisited once a phone-confirmation pass has run for this area, which should fill in most of the gaps in the thinner areas.