Grooming Sitting or Standing?

[padalin]

SO I see a lot of pictures of everyones salons and it got me thinking..

Do you sit or stand when you are grooming?


Personally I stand all day but I've never tried sitting so maybe I would like it.

[Cat Crazy]

I tend to sit for most of the groom but tend to stand when working on the heads of bigger dogs. I have some back problems and find that sitting is much easier on my body.

[DBT]

standing for 23 yrs here

i tried sitting and could never get the finish.I think it depends on how you started out

[bkrbbr01]

We were late bloomers

so at 47 and 48, when we opened a grooming shop, we sit on stools with wheels. Sometimes we stand, but mostly sit. My husband has back problems and I have ****** feet.

[caninecrazy]

That's a great question! I got all the new fangled tables and such, but I find I always stand through most my grooms and I stand with my legs spread out. I can lower and raise but still prefer to walk around a dog and see how it looks from all angles. Even when I used my old hydraulic that did a complete circle, I still had to walk around, I think we are all different though, had a friend who groomed Beautiful and never left her seat...

[odette]

Depends on what I'm doing, mostly sit, but for some reason stand when doing full scissor dogs, learned standing, but had to start sittting part of the time.

[Tat2DGroomer]

I sit... and wouldnt change it for the world.. I cant stand all day and groom. It aggravates my plantar thingies in my feet,hurts my lower back etc. I learned how to groom standing and I happily adapted to sitting when I realized I would not be fatigued and in pain at the end of the day

[edderland]

Same here; learned to groom standing; but as I got older and got a hydraulic, now electric table; I sit as much as possible. Even in my mobile; I have a chair and use it most of the time. I am 63 and have terrible back problems from too many car wrecks and too much abuse lifting huge dogs and heavy crates, etc.
Deidre

[duke]

Both! I just got my chair approximately a month ago, so it's a little awkward right now(lol). Some days sitting feels reeeeeal good, then other days it's just weird.

[Jenneversage64]

Stand

I have the vericose veins and spider veins to show for it. Tried sitting and gave that up. I found my face was too close and could be bitten easier if not careful. I didn't like In - the - dogs' face feeling.

[Moonpiepoodlz]

Hydraulic tables I sit, stationary tables I stand

[SiberianLover]

I stand. I move around the table a LOT when I groom.

I do have terrible back problems though....wonder if I should try sitting. I don't think I could do it!

[KDGROOMER]

I stand about 85% of the groom but I tend to sit down when I have those itty bitty dogs cause I am tall so when I sit I feel like I am getting a better view

[mylady]

I couldn't groom sitting down until I got pregnant and, well, necessity being what it is I learned pretty fast. Now I prefer to sit. I find many of the dogs, especially the small ones, are much calmer with me more at their level than towering over them (yeah, I'm just SOOOO tall LOL) I do both. Try to sit to dry and sit to groom as much as I can. As John Stazko said at one of his seminars, if you want to be grooming 30 years from now, you better learn to groom sitting down.

[doggydivas]

I stand at the table. but I groom the biggies on the floor and I sit for that..or squat.