Zen Pet Retail & Grooming

Love to stop by this NOLA shop with my two senior giant macro critters and visit while buying the best organic food I can get for them (Acana by Orijen). Grooming is fantastic, they take both German shepherds at the same time for bath and brush, and use all natural organic products. Can’t beat the price and commitment to a thorough grooming job on both of them. All the treats are high quality, many local, with organically sourced ingredients. Toys are durable and varied, lots of bones and choices too. Many local art pieces and decorative bowls and such (plus high quality basics like leashes and brushes). Just did Christmas pictures here and they turned out fantastic! We live nearby in uptown New Orleans and dogs love to walk over quite often to this great neighborhood shop.

Loved this place! Most places charge me $ 70 + to bathe my golden retriever. Zen Pet is much more affordable. The staff is friendly and the place is very quiet and clean. My dog, Annie, gets very anxious when there are a lot of dogs barking at a grooming salon. I didn’t hear any of this. She seemed as happy as can be when I picked her up and wasn’t frazzled at all. They did a tremendous job brushing her out. We will definitely be regular customers!

I’ve tried so many groomers here in New Orleans and had some horrible experiences. I then took my two dogs to Zen Pet, they did a great job! I would highly recommend them!

This store is beautiful and clean! I was looking for a certain kind of food and Zen Pet is the only retailer in the area that carries it. I had the pleasure of talking with Belinda for several minutes about different kinds of food and the feed back from her other customers pertaining to the food I was interested in. Zen Pet had several gift items and hand made pet items and good quality food choices. I will be back. :)

I adopted a toy poodle just a year ago and began looking for businesses to support us because I knew that I would not want to feed her purina dog chow or the like. I try to consume healthy, not mass produced food and I want the same for her. Zen is the answer. The owner is totally committed to high quality food. She carefully and meticulously sources her products. She knows the companies and the ingredients. She has been my go to source for information, answers, tips, etc. Not only about food, but training and caring for my dog. She was the one who told me that it was my fear of other dogs that generated my dog’s anxiety. Now when we visit Zen my dog no longer freaks out around her gentle lab. Her groomer is excellent. My dog gets more than the usual compliments after being groomed at Zen. The name, Zen, is fitting, Zen has brought me immense peace and tranquility.

I was very impressed with the merchandise in this store from carrying local artists leashes, bowls, etc and specialty foods. Belinda, the owner is a sweetheart and very helpful. She is a wealth of information when it comes to the healthy needs of your animals! I bought both my Mastiff & German Shepard a collar for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My German Shepard enjoyed her bath tremendously, so make sure they have a spa service! My Bella highly recommends it! Cassie, Belinda’s chocolate Lab loves greeting the clients!

Carries Acana & Origin! Great selection of treats and one of a kind bowls made by a local artist. Plus the owner and her adorable lab are so sweet and knowledgeable — I love bringing my little Pom here!

Zen Pet is a boutique store, which apparently also has grooming. I visited during a recent trip to try to find some NOLA pet gear. The owner, Belinda, was very personable. She chatted with me and made me feel very comfortable in her store.
The store isn’t very big, however it does feature many natural pet foods and treats. There is a small selection of leashes and toys. Not really any pet gear with NOLA on it, however they do have some hand made ceramic dog bowls that have such NOLA inspired touches as the water meter mark on the bottom or an inscription like «NOLA DAWG». These look like they’d make great gifts and are rather affordable.
So it’s not a one stop dog shop, but it is a great place to pick up pet gifts (they did have cat stuff too!) or to find natural food or treats. Parking is also easy — park along the one way street it sits on perpendicular to Magazine St.