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2.4 (128 reviews)
Open • 9:00 am - 8:00 pm

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Bath and groom only

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Not consistent with what they tell you on the phone or what they tell you at the store!
Anita T.

I was absolutely blown away at how rude and mean the grooming staff were when I was there. To be clear, aside from today I haven't been back since they closed down randomly back in 2018 for all their groomers quitting at once (sadly), and I was told by the new groomer that they would no longer take walk-ins. The place hasn't been reliable since. I decided to give them a try again after the new place we go for grooming has been also unreliable over the past year. I was told on the phone that they'd be open until "around 4:30" and that I could come have my dogs nails trimmed then. Well, I dragged my 6 month old baby out of a nap early and rushed child and dog into the grooming salon at "around 4:30" and found 4 girls sitting around chatting, not grooming anything and giving me a dirty look, then I was told we only do this til 4. When I reiterated what I was told on the phone call, one girl said "I was there when she said 4:30," and another then claimed we need to clean up for half an hour so we don't work until 4:30, "we're not on the clock anymore!". I see no brooms, I see no mops, place smells as bad as I remember, doesn't look like clean o clock to me! I was then told we don't open on Wednesdays and Thursdays either. What's also wild is that their website claims the grooming department for this particular Petco is open until 7PM all the days of the week. Save yourself the trip here, and don't support their grooming department until they clean out their staff for some competent people who at least can pretend to be polite.

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I will never be coming back to this location, and would recommend that others don't visit either. I had a grooming appointment this morning for 8:30am. Nobody was around, store phone went to voicemail, and was wondering if anyone would show up. At 8:38am, the Store Manager and an employee (the groomer) show up at the same exact time in separate cars. No apologies for being late -- they seem to just be enjoying their morning and seemed to have come from the same place. A bit inconsiderate, but I can get past it. I drop off my dog for the grooming appointment, and drive home. A full hour later (9:38am), I get a call from the groomer describing how they didn't have time to assess the grooming area before checking me in, and that the back room of the grooming area had wet concrete, lots of fumes, and was very dusty. And that I would have to drive back and pick up my dog, who had not been looked at in that entire hour. I show up to Petco again, and nobody is to be found in the grooming area. I click on a doorbell a couple of times, knock on the table pretty loudly -- nothing. I walk into the store -- nobody is there. So I look up Petco's phone number, redirect to grooming, which then makes an announcement to the entire store...and the groomer finally shows up. She apologizes, and says how they're having to cancel the rest of their grooming appointments for today. And said how she was starting to feel lightheaded from the fumes already. Meanwhile, she was nowhere even close to the grooming area. Yet she left my dog in the same back room area with the fumes and dust for an hour, unattended. This was the 2nd, yet final strike for me. Back in the fall, I set up a January 1st grooming appointment (day after New Years). Just 1.5 hours before the scheduled appointment, I get an email (no call or anything) that my appointment has been canceled. I followed up, and apparently the employee was "sick."

Extremely rude and condescending woman in the teal shirt.
Samantha C.

I waited an hour to get vaccinations on my pitbull mix. When we were waiting, the lady was extremely rude and condescending when she asked me to wait behind the bird cage (she didn't say this to the person before me). When I reached them, it seems the lady already had a preconceived notion on pit bulls. Right away, she asked do we need a muzzle (in a very condescending voice). I said no, and she simply said then we can't vaccinate her here. You should go to a clinic, I don't want to get bitten. The woman that does the vaccines is so rude. I don't recommend for anyone to bring their animals here for vaccines. There is a huge line, and they are very rude. MORAL OF THE STORY: if you have a dog over 40 pounds, you're not welcome here!

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Do you guys have parrots and if you do how much are they and what breeds?

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