The Clip Joint

My dog looks just adorable after his visits here. I used to have to give him melds to calm him before grooming, but no more. Great place where your pet will always be groomed by the same person.

I love this place and so does Oatie!
They always groom Oatie the way i ask. I love the owner. She is great! Never have trouble scheduling appointments and they always are accommodating our crazy schedule

I rescued my dog, Daisy, a few weeks ago. I took her in today to get her nails clipped (hooray for walk ins!), and Julie did a great job. My dog can be quite timid, but Julie was quick, careful, and very kind to Daisy. I didn’t catch the other woman’s name, but both she and Julie spent time with Daisy afterwards just talking to her. Such a great place with great people!

Yes, it’s messy — it’s full of hair/​fur. They aren’t making your dinner, they are grooming your pet. Yes, they have very irregular hours, but they call back quickly. The most important thing is they take good care of your pet! My dog loves going there and always comes out looking good.

I get my bunny’s nails trimmed here, and they are fabulous. I always call at the last minute, yet they always fit in me in that day, even on a busy Saturday. The owners are incredibly nice, and the prices (for a bunny nail trim) are wonderful. My other groomer used to charge $ 20 for a nail trim, and Julie only charges me $ 10. And my bunny is a pill at holding still for a nail trim – once you pick her up it’s like the bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail times 10. Yet the folks at the Clip Joint are always patient and kind, even as my bunny flips out. I love having this family-​owned business right around the corner from me!

My Vet recommended this place as a good place to take a cat for a haircut. Ffffiona is a Maine Coon and has problems dealing with the heat (wearing that exquisitely thick fur coat, who wouldn’t?) so I brought her in a couple of weeks ago.
I had been put off by the reviews, but I made an appointment and brought her in. Things were a little chaotic during intake with the dogs not being happy in carriers and all, and the place isn’t clinically spotless (nor should it be, as that breeds superbugs and it isn’t a clinic!). I asked them to essentially clip her fur down to «short hair» levels, since she has pale skin and some fur does help keep a cat cool. I had no idea how Ffffiona would react, so I warned them, and headed off to telecommute until they called me back to get her.
I returned to a beautifully groomed, now short-​haired cat who seemed completely undistressed by the entire situation. She is very plushy, soft, even, symmetrical, and looks teddy-​bear cuddly! A heat wave started that day, and she was fine — no panting, no distressed meowwws, and seemed much less stressed overall. She also is no longer constantly grooming since her fur is easier to deal with, and all the mats and mess are gone.
I will probably take her back again during the summer for a touch up, but I will certainly bring her back.

Jack the cat had some mats on him that I couldn’t brush out, so we came here to see Julie and her staff. Wonderful experience! Jack couldn’t be happier and the price was reasonable. Easy appointment process via email (which is very helpful to me as I work in one of those nasty «open office» plans).
We’ll be back.

I have an old poodle with health problems and I wouldn’t take him anywhere else. The groomer is careful with him and is willing to make accommodations for his needs. And he comes out looking and smelling great.

Is this place even open? I’ve been calling a couple times every day during regular business hours for the last 4 days and there is no voicemail option and no one picks up the phone. I went by the place and no one was in there and there weren’t any signs saying they were on vacation. Very weird! :/​I will update if/​when I am able to make an appointment.

We take our two pugs to get their nails clipped here and she is so amazing with them. One of our pugs goes kind of crazy and she is really patient and never hurts them. And only $ 20 to get both of them done! Great value and great service!

This place is fantastic. I’ve taken my dog here twice and both times she’s come out looking and feeling amazing.
Some of the reviewers complain about animal hair, but c’mon, animals get their hair cut there. If you want your animal to get treated like princess; getting painted toe nails, a foot massage, a golden toilet, and a marble kennel, then this might not be the place for you. For anyone else who wants to get their animal groomed with a happy experience all around, this IS the place for you.

So, my parents used to take my little sister’s Ragdoll (a longhair breed with a soft and silky coat) cat to be groomed here about once a year.
He didn’t usually need much, mainly because my sister was pretty good about regularly brushing him out and typically he never really matted. At the most the grooming was mainly just for the bath and the sanitary clip to avoid poop dreads/​dingleberries/​whatever you wanna call them.
So they dropped him off, same instructions as always (bath, brush, sanitary clip) and leave.
Few hours later they come to pick up Artemis and he is COMPLETELY SHAVED INTO A LION CUT.
SHAVED DOWN TO THE SKIN. EXCEPT FOR HIS HEAD, FEET, AND TIP OF THE TAIL. Lion cut. Ridiculous looking.
Needless to say, we weren’t happy. At all. When we asked how this happened the only excuse they could offer up was «Oh we confused his grooming instruction paper with a poodle’s» or something like that.
Are you kidding me? At least have the decency to not make up some bogus excuse.
Artemis hid for about two months. His coat never grew back the same because typically when you shave long haired breeds like that it damages the coat and it is never really grows back the same. Whenever he sees a brush he hides, he won’t let anybody near him. His coat mats super easily. Now we have a cat that needs to be sedated to be groomed. It sucks.

I have a standard poodle who gets groomed here, and we have had very good experiences. I haven’t encountered any of the problems that other reviewers have mentioned (overcrowding, filthiness), and the women who run the place are incredibly friendly. My dog gets a great haircut for a reasonable price.

First the positive: The people that own this place are nice as can be.
Now down to the nitty-​gritty:
1. The place is just filthy. Dog hair everywhere, plants are covered with it, floor is covered with it. I’ve seen the grooming room where my dog gets groomed and, although at the end of the day there is quite a bit of hair on the floor, you can tell the place is cleaned on a daily basis. This place looks like is hasn’t been cleaned in about a year. How clean could the animals be after leaving???
2. I had my pup’s eyes trimmed here. She used the pointed scissors around her eyes! Um, hello? One squirm and my dog could lose an eye. This did not excite me. Use the rounded, blunted scissors. And clean!
3. The crates that they put the dogs in to dry or wait or whatever are just your average plastic crates that you buy from the pet-​store. The type you put *your* dog in, with the crate on the floor. Safely. You do *not* stack these! They could easily topple off the bottom crate should the dog in the top crate move.
4. My neighbors used to take their dog to get groomed and he was a very cute dog, no thanks to his hair-​cut. Below average.
5. You would think, since they don’t spend money on equipment or cleaning, that the prices would be really cheap. Not so! Very average.
6. This place was so close to me and I couldn’t ever see myself having my dog groomed there, no matter how convenient it would have been time-​wise. I was *that* unimpressed.
I hope that these reviews are not only helpful to the people considering the place but to the owners as well. They are really nice and it would be nice to see them improve things and earn some more business.

I took my two Corgis on a Wednesday and was fairly satisfied with the service. They received a good bath and brush out. My only complaint was that when I came to pick them up, there was hair all over my dogs – but I’ll assume some of the blame since my dogs shed 24÷7÷365. My only other gripe is that they didn’t trim the tufts of hair between my dogs’ toes, but I think if I’d just specified this, they would have attended to that detail as well.
The groomers are very friendly and professional. My dogs were ready when promised and she only charged me $ 25 for each Corgi – a steal, really, given the work that she had to put into them!
I’d definitely recommend going during the week; there were only a few other dogs there.

Char-​chi gets her manicures here. In English this means that my cat Charlotte gets her claws clipped here. They do a great job even though she is feisty and it takes two of them to do the job sometimes. Even when two of them have to hold her down, they are gentle and sweet with her. They have the skills to do the job and keep all four eyes intact which earns my respect. That said, I would like to see a pet grooming place that is sparkling clean and antiseptic looking. But I digress. They do a great job on my cat’s nails and take her as a walk in and everyone keeps their eyes and everyone is happy. I have dog-​owning friends who swear by this place.

I’ve had my dog groomed here a bunch of times and they usually do a good job. I have found the last few times, however, that they seem to have sooo many dogs in there at once that the quality of my dog’s cut is not so hot. I think they’re just scrambling to take as many customers as possible, but end up have to rush through their time with each dog. Could also be the case that I’ve taken mine there on Saturdays, when they tend to be busier — so perhaps if you can take your dog in during the week s/​he would get more & better attention :)