Welcome to the HipDog School of Grooming Arts!

Improving the industry by setting the standard!

We offer a unique cutting edge curriculum and philosophy for those interested in a career as a professional canine artist/stylist. We feel grooming is a form of art! ( the medium we work in is dog hair). Anyone can give a dog a hair cut but it takes an artistic eye, a creative spirit and full understanding of why you learn to groom the correct way the first time to produce the superior level of expertise our students enter the profession with.

We limit classes to no more than 3 students currently as we truly do not subscribe to the cattle call type schools who see students as money and cram 8 - 12 students in at a time. We will never have more than 5 students per instructor. There is no way one instructor can provide enough time individually with that many students. Speaking from experience, I was forced to do this elsewhere and saw first hand how impossible it is to be that many places at once and give the amount of time each student needs at any given time. Our tuition is affordable and not determined by the rent for a new building.

HipDog offers pet and show dog grooming instructions, breed specific classes that others may attend as a continuing education course each Tuesday afternoon at 1:00. We also offer a full blown HOme Study Series for those who cannot take three months out of their life to go to a residence school.

Debbie Stover is the school founder as well as primary instructor. She has 17 DVD's on the market that can be purchased individually or as two different sets. My Home Study Series© has been sold nationwide since 1992 and used as part of the curriculum in other grooming schools over the years. The Reality Series© was just shot in January 2009 and will be available for purchase in February 2009. How many other local schools can offer an instructor with 28 years experience who has taught people all over the country to groom for 17 years via videos sold nationwide? She also does grooming shop consulting to those who want to open their own shop or go mobile after they graduate. She offers weekly breed specific courses, hand stripping knowledge and will offer online courses for those who want to learn from home or as continuing education/refresher courses. No other school in the DFW area has these offerings or credentials. Her new easy to understand grooming book will be published in 2009. This is not just another book with show dog illustrations. Deb's book is for real dogs with real life cuts and clips that groomers deal with on a daily basis to keep dogs and busy owners happy.

As you can see, we offer more experience, more hands on time with dogs and more diverse knowledge which we believe is the difference between learning grooming as the fine art that it is, as opposed to just another vocation.