17th Street Dog Spaw

Anne the owner took my matted dogs in right away and really gave them a nice haircut! Really happy there and will continue as a customer!

I have a labradoodle. Anne does such a great job! I love that she doesn’t cage all the dogs only the aggressive. My dog loves it there.

I hate that I have to update my review, but a few days later, my dog showed little improvement. I initially took him in for a bath, nail trim, ear cleaning, and anal gland expressing. When we got home, he looked and felt great, but the next day, his ears and belly were so itchy and he continued to scoot on the carpet, indicating his glands were still bothering him. I feel like some of the services weren’t done or weren’t done very well :(

I have a Mastiff and she love this place. The staff is super friendly and the prices are very reasonable. Great environment.

My dog has been going to 17^th Street Dog Spaw for over 10 years and I am always a happy customer! The owner Annie is so sweet and takes great care of him. He gets so excited as soon as we pull up out front and loves his special Dog Spaw days! I wouldn’t take him anywhere else, and I don’t think he’d let me:)

We drop off our Pyrenees and Bassett hound every couple of months and it is always all good!

As others have said the woman who runs the store is very nice. Other than that this place is awful. I brought my 7 month old retriever mix in for a bath and there were about 12 dogs running around the store uncaged my poor dog was terrified. Although she assured me all of the dogs were friendly that is just not a risk I am willing to take. She was barely able to lift my dog and he is only 25 pounds. I will not be returning this place is completely unprofessional.

Very nice people. We have just moved to Costa Mesa and I needed to find a new groomer I just am not willing to drive back to South County to have them groomed. I took my 2 dogs in to be groomed their cockapoo’s. So the grooming is not difficult. What I ask for is my dogs to be shaved completely down my female to have her face shave like a poodle with just a small tuft of hair at the end of her snout. everything else clipped as short as possible. My male pretty much the same but to leave his go-​tee to just be left alone. I didn’t realize how bad it really was till I got home, Their paws were cut in different lengths. The didn’t clean out the hair in their ears, and now 6 weeks later they look terrible. I won’t recommend this place my suggestion is before you leave check your dogs over and make them fix them.

I should have just trusted my gut when I walked in and turned right around. This place has decent reviews, and I don’t get it. The place was a dump! The gate to the back was broken and just hanging there, there was freshly cut dog hair all over (not just in the back) and the pens they kept dogs in were just makeshift junk. All I asked for was a simple shave and nail trim. The nails are fine, but the shave! I have never seen such an uneven, half-​assed job in my life! When I paid I wanted to cry a little. Way overpriced for what I got. I should have said something to them but I didn’t even want to deal with them. They were a bit unprofessional and I will never go back!

My yellow labrador loves his visits to the Dog Spaw. Unlike the other reviewers, I have had nothing but positive experience here but as far as a ‘haircut’ my 100 lb. yellow lab really just gets washed, nails clipped, ears cleaned, etc. and they do a perfect job at a very reasonable price ($ 35). They do have a very unstructured atmosphere with large poodles running around but they are happy and friendly and my dog really loves his visits here and he comes back sweet smelling, soft and beautiful.

Love this business They are always busy but never turn down taking our little Lexi in if we need to.
They are closed on Sunday and Monday
The owner is very sweet and takes very good care of the dogs
If you want a secure great place to groom your dog this is it.
They have never injured my puppy like other places have cut her nails too short and made them bleed before I found this place and that’s never happened here.
Love love love it !!
I’m not a person to give out a lot of 5 stars but this one deserves it !

We love annie. our dogs love to come here. efficient, clean and great work!

I love this place– all of the groomers are very professional kind and accommodating. My doggies love them. I have been going here for 6 years and I am yet to have a problem. Love this place!!!

I saw the SPAW sign by chance on the way to visit my friend’s baby boutique in the next centre. I decided to check it out because I am pretty new to the area. Wow I am soo thankful I did! The owner was extremely friendly, and understood right away way a nightmare it is for me to cut my dogs nails. She and her assistant muzzled my 50 lbs dog, held her, and cut her nails fast. Trauma over. Treat administered. SIX DOLLARS!!! I will be coming back VERY often. They also carry First Mate, an awesome grain-​free made in Vancouver I could only find when I lived in Seattle. Yes. the dogs in the back bark. Newsflash– DOGS BARK

The owner was very nice but she did have her humongous
Dogs running around in there which scared my puppy.
I felt it was kinda pricy and she didn’t do that good of a job with her haircut. We won’t be coming back…

The woman who runs this store is nice, so 17^th Street Dog Spaw has that going for it. What doesn’t it have going for it? Good pet grooming, and that is a problem for a pet grooming store.
We had to bring our dog back to the store after realizing what a terrible job she had done. And even after round two, and about 8 hours, our dog still wasn’t cut properly.
I would agree with the earlier review that while this place may eventually get better, right now, it doesn’t have the experience needed for a $ 50 dog haircut.

I have 2 yorkies and I think that the groomer did a wonderful job. My girls looked great and they were done so fast! I hate leaving them at groomers for hours because I know they are in cages. They were quick and professional and I will for sure book another appointment.

We took our dog to this groomer on a Saturday morning. There where 2 women working there that day. When we walked in one lady was yelling at a Black lab in a cage to «SHUT UP!» The dog was just curious about another dog being groomed right in front of him.
When we approached the counter, the other woman came up to our dog and immediately hunched over him and put her hand out. At this point my boyfriend was concerned about leaving the dog there because of the way she handled the situation. She took him in the back and we walked out.
We took about 2 steps out of the door and they came running out saying «He won’t let us pick him up, we can’t do this!» The groomer’s here are obviously amateur at handling dogs. I wouldn’t recommend this groomer to any person that has a dog larger than a Chihuahua.