How to choose a dog groomer in Nuneaton, Bedworth and Atherstone
Dog grooming is unregulated in the UK, so the checking is on you. This directory covers thirty-five groomers across Nuneaton, Bedworth, Atherstone and the Market Bosworth corner of CV13, ranging from a Registered Veterinary Nurse's salon to Facebook-only operators with no address. Read this before you pick one.
Check how well the business is documented
Of the thirty-five businesses listed here, six were confirmed from a first-hand working website plus at least one other source (marked high confidence): Clippers Mobile Dog Grooming, Canine Beauticians, Squish & Wiggles, Hayley's Happy Paws, Wags K9 Services and Short Bark and Sides. Twenty are medium confidence, usually meaning the details rest on a directory listing, a Facebook page or a landline with no working website behind it. Nine are low confidence, most resting on a single directory-aggregator row with no website or social page found to corroborate them; each says so plainly in its listing, with a note to confirm details by phone before booking.
Address and name conflicts
Dappers Dog Grooming's mobile number turns up against three different addresses across directories; the fullest, 13 Bull Street, is used here, but it may have moved or simply be listed inconsistently elsewhere. Woof-Woof Land Dog Groomer's Eadie Street postcode is given as CV10 8JB on one check and CV10 8JA on another; the earlier, already-verified CV10 8JB is kept. Lovely Dog Grooming has an odd Hinckley-dialling-code landline attached to it on one directory, almost certainly an error, so the mobile number from a fuller listing is used instead. Charlotte's Dog Grooming and Short Bark and Sides share the postcode CV9 1DB in Atherstone despite being two separate, confirmed businesses with their own phone numbers and Facebook pages. Separately, a dissolved company called Pretty Paws Grooming Studio Limited and a Facebook-only Bedworth business called Marie's Pretty Paws share the "Pretty Paws" name; whether one grew out of the other couldn't be confirmed, so neither appears in this directory, for different reasons explained below.
Who was left out, and why
Four businesses were left out for having no confirmed phone number: Karen Harrison, recorded as a bare personal name against a Watling Street, Nuneaton postcode with no phone or business name; Scruffy Dogs, an Atherstone business advertising a "cuddles not cages" approach but no working number found; Marie's Pretty Paws, a Facebook-only Bedworth groomer with neither an address nor a phone number on record; and Dem Mucky Paws, the only named, address-bearing business found anywhere in the whole Market Bosworth area cluster, which also had no phone number that could be confirmed. A fifth, Pretty Paws Grooming Studio, was left out despite having a recorded phone number: Companies House confirms the limited company that traded from its Camp Farm, Bulkington premises was dissolved in November 2023, so the studio itself may no longer be operating under that name. If you know any of these five are trading again with a working number, let us know and we'll add them.
Qualifications
City & Guilds training comes up most often: Hayley's Happy Paws' owner holds City & Guilds Levels 2 and 3 alongside a veterinary nursing qualification and a teaching award in animal health, and Charlotte's Dog Grooming is run by a City & Guilds Level 3 groomer with about seven years' experience. Squish & Wiggles' Laura is a Registered Veterinary Nurse and CPG-certified groomer with more than 15 years in veterinary settings. Pin Up Pooch Parlour's groomer holds an OCN Level 3, and Woof-Woof Land Dog Groomer holds an OCNWM Level 3 Diploma. Ask for the qualification by name if it matters to you.
Multi-town coverage
Several businesses here work across more than one of this page's areas rather than staying put. Clippers Mobile Dog Grooming, run by Naomi since 2022, covers Nuneaton, Bedworth and Coventry from her van. Four Paws And I, a one-to-one home groomer based in Hartshill, covers Nuneaton and Bedworth. Canine Beauticians in Bedworth offers collection and delivery across Nuneaton, Bedworth and Coventry alongside its Dark Lane salon.
Mobile groomers
Three of the thirty-five businesses here work from a van rather than a fixed salon: Clippers Mobile Dog Grooming, Dave's Mobile Dog Grooming, and Sam's Perfect Paws, based in Grendon near Atherstone. If you need someone to come to you outside these three, ask a salon-based groomer whether they also travel.
Cats and other pets
Pin Up Pooch Parlour in Nuneaton is the only business in this directory confirmed for cat and small-pet grooming alongside dogs. Everyone else listed here is confirmed for dog grooming only, so if you have a cat or small pet too, ask directly before assuming a salon will take them.
Reviews
27 of the 35 groomers listed here show a Google rating, taken from the business's own Google profile and linked from the listing; the others have no rating from a source this directory can link to. No Google Maps, Trustpilot, Fresha, Booksy or Yelp page was fetched for any of the thirty-five during this research pass, so no star rating appears anywhere on this page yet. Hayley's Happy Paws' own site states a 4.9-star average from around 90 Google reviews, but since that wasn't checked against a fetched Google Maps page it isn't shown here as a rating, only noted as a fact. Ask to see recent work, a reference, or check for yourself online before booking.
Where they are, and the thin corner
Coverage is heavily weighted to Nuneaton, with 23 of the thirty-five businesses listed here, against six each in Bedworth (including two from Bulkington) and Atherstone (including three from the Grendon side of the town). Market Bosworth, covering the CV13 postcodes, currently has no business listed on this page at all. A dedicated search of the area and its surrounding villages (Shackerstone, Sutton Cheney, Nailstone, Barlestone and others) found exactly one named, address-bearing grooming business, Dem Mucky Paws in Market Bosworth itself, and even that one had no phone number that could be confirmed, so it isn't published here either. If you're in or near Market Bosworth, the nearest well-documented option in Nuneaton or Atherstone, or one of the three mobile groomers covering your postcode, is worth trying first, and it's worth checking back here as this thin corner gets a fuller pass in future research.