Mobile Dog Groomer Works With Mom
Tuesday Cook-Hannah runs Bev’s Mobile Grooming with her mother, Beverly Strange. It is “a complete groom shop on wheels,” Cook-Hannah said. About 90 percent of her clients live at The Landings. Inside the van, which her mother designed for this business, there are typically five or more dogs. There is a section in the van for each part of the grooming process.
Cook-Hannah is a fifth-generation dog groomer. She grew up going to dog shows and watching her mom groom. “I was going to Westminster dog shows at the age of 2,” she said. Her great-grandfather is one of the founders of the Professional Handlers Association, which started in the 1920s. Her mother has owned Bev’s Mobile Grooming for 12 years, and about two years ago Cook-Hannah came from Florida to join her mother in the mobile pet grooming business.
Her dog-grooming education comes from on-the-job training through her childhood and young adulthood, as well as the certification process she went through 10 years ago through the National Dog Grooming Association of America in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The course requires exams, grooming in front of judges, knowing breeds and breed profiles and being up-to-date with new techniques. Cook-Hannah attends seminars on a regular basis to stay up-to-date with dog-grooming-related concerns.
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