How to choose a dog groomer in Solihull and Shirley
Dog grooming is unregulated in the UK, so the checking is on you. This directory covers 29 groomers across five areas: Solihull town centre (B91), Shirley (B90), Olton and Elmdon (B92), Knowle and Dorridge (B93), and Hockley Heath and Tanworth-in-Arden (B94), which in practice is mostly an Earlswood cluster. This page replaces Solihull's old listing under Birmingham; if you've bookmarked a Solihull business from there, it now lives here.
Check how well the business is documented
Of the 29 businesses listed, 6 were confirmed from a working website plus at least one other independent source (marked high confidence): Soaks Dog Groomers, Cool Cutz, Earlswood Dog Grooming, Pets World Knowle, Dogs Of Dorridge and Impeccable Pets Dog Grooming. Eleven are medium confidence, usually meaning the details come from a directory listing, a Facebook or Instagram page, or a phone number confirmed independently rather than the business's own working site. Twelve are low confidence, most of them home-based or mobile groomers with a single directory listing and no separate website. Each low-confidence listing carries a plain note that the details are from search results only and should be confirmed by phone before booking.
A website worth knowing didn't work
O'Grady's Dog Grooming has a website on record that returned a server error on the day it was checked; its listing here leaves out the broken link and is instead drawn from an indexed snippet of the site plus a directory. Call rather than try the link.
Who's left out, and why
The Hamptons Boutique Pet Hotel, a luxury boarding and day-care operation on a farm estate near Hampton in Arden, is not listed: grooming and an in-house spa are offered there as an add-on to boarding, not as its main business, so it doesn't fit a dog-groomer directory. A Pets at Home / The Groom Room branch in Shirley is excluded as a national chain, standard practice across this network. A Solihull-based groomer with a live Facebook page called Mia's Groom Room, and an unnamed grooming listing at a Bentley Heath address, both turned up during research but neither had a confirmed postcode or business name that could be verified, so neither is listed; a future update may add either if that changes. A Meriden-based business trading as "In The Doghouse Solihull" is not listed here either, since its postcode falls under this network's Coventry page rather than this one.
Where they are, and where coverage is thin
Shirley is comfortably the best-covered area with 11 businesses: it has the town's main retail strips along Stratford Road and Haslucks Green Road, plus several home-based and mobile groomers besides. Hockley Heath and Tanworth-in-Arden (6) is really an Earlswood cluster; nothing was found specifically in Hockley Heath village itself. Olton and Elmdon, Solihull town centre and Knowle and Dorridge each have only 4 listed businesses and are genuinely thin. Solihull town centre's four are mostly home-based or mobile operators (Vanity Paws Parlour, Perfect Pawz, Bath & Bark, DandyDOGS); no shopfront salon was found actually inside the town centre itself, only just over the boundary in Shirley. Knowle and Dorridge's four cover Knowle high street (Pets World Knowle, Knowle Dog Grooming) and Dorridge (Dogs Of Dorridge, Tangles and Tails Dog Grooming) but no more; a further research pass on either area would be worth running before relying on this page as complete.
Mobile groomers
Three businesses here work mobile rather than from a fixed base: Tillies Tail Wagging (wide North Solihull and north Warwickshire coverage), Sam Coldwell Professional Dog Groomer and Shaggy Chic Grooming Boutique, both based in Shirley. Each is listed under the area of its stated base; confirm by phone that a mobile groomer actually covers your address before booking.
Cats
Special Friends Dog and Cat Grooming and Shaggy Chic Grooming Boutique both groom cats alongside dogs. Everyone else in this directory is confirmed for dog grooming only.
Reviews
21 of the 28 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 independent review profile this network accepts, Google Maps, Trustpilot, Fresha, Booksy or Yelp, could be confirmed for any of the 29 during research, so ask to see recent work, a reference, or photos of previous grooms instead of relying on a star rating you can't check yourself.