About the salon
A grooming room that feels like a living room.
Yuppy Puppy sits on W MacKenzie Rd in DeLand. There’s one big window, a grooming table, a rug, and no crates anywhere. Dogs wait loose in the room while they’re here, and nobody is hurried off the table because the next appointment is waiting.
We groom by appointment only, Monday to Saturday, for owners in DeLand, Deltona and across Volusia County. Doodles, retrievers, Labs, shepherds and the small dogs who need a bow to feel finished.
“We make it easy for your pets to look and feel their best!”
“The whole salon feels more like a cozy living room than a sterile grooming shop”
For the dogs who find this hard
Slow introductions, and a call when they’re done.
Some dogs walk in wagging. Some come in nervous, or with a past their owners can only guess at. For those dogs the start of the visit matters more than the haircut.
One owner called ahead about a sixteen-week-old Goldendoodle who had been called too scared and anxious to groom. She was told the team would work to “gradually earn his trust”. Then the salon called her to say he did great and was ready for pick-up. When she walked in, he was “completely sprawled out on the floor snoozing”.
Another family had rescued a doodle who’d never been socialised, and wasn’t sure how her first groom would go. In their words, “The staff worked with her slowly as not to stress her out” and she ended up giving them kisses. Both reviews are on Google, five stars each.
That’s the whole method, and it’s plain: slow, patient work, earning trust a step at a time, and a phone call when your dog is finished. If your dog was turned away somewhere else, say so when you book and the visit gets planned around it.
The strips over the window are the first thing dogs see.
A row of bandana strips hangs along the top of the big garden window, red, teal, orange and mustard, and it catches the afternoon light across the table. It’s a small thing, and it says what the room is: a place with colour in it, where a dog can settle. The crate-free floor, the slow pace and that valance all belong to the same idea.
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2761 W MacKenzie Rd, DeLand, FL 32724