Niche won’t help pet groomers, dog owners or our animals. “Licensing pet groomers isn’t solution to poor-quality grooming services,” Adam B. Summers told us; he’s a senior policy analyst in the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation and has written extensively on government licensing.
“Imposing a top-down state bureaucracy will likely not improve pet safety or grooming quality, but it surely will lead to less competition, less option for consumers, far better prices,” he stated. “Higher prices will arise from your reduced competition and the dependence on practitioners to offset the tariff of compliance with unnecessary regulations. When there is less competition, there exists less pressure on practitioners to provide the best deals and service quality.”

Basically, its Economics 101: When supply drops, prices rise.

He explained top-down regulations with the state government are “arbitrary.” The regulations “give consumers the wrong feeling of security about licensed groomers, forcing them to less careful of whom they actually do business with than they otherwise might be.” Moreover, higher prices would mean more puppy owners would groom their unique pets. This will bring about more pain with the pets because owners aren’t also trained as groomers.
Sen. Vargas dubbed SB969 “Lucy’s Law,” after the terrier-mix that was wounded by way of a groomer. Treatment, reported the Hillcrest Union-Tribune, “included an unexpected emergency room stop by to a veterinarian and reimbursement negotiations while using the groomer.”
State guidelines already support the reimbursement of injury to pets also to protect consumers from fraud and negligence. Mr. Summers said consumers can interest the Better Business Bureau, while Yelp! And Angie’s List online provide ratings of groomers by pet owners.