Get matched with trusted dog groomers in Singapore
Dog grooming in Singapore runs about $45–350 depending on your dog's size, coat and the state it arrives in. Search dog grooming near me and you get a map of the same three salons. Tell us about your dog once instead, and independent local groomers, mobile or studio, send you a quote. Free, and no obligation.
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We share your details with matched Singapore dog groomers so they can contact you with a quote, and with nobody else. The four steps after you enquire sets out exactly what happens next.
What dog grooming in Singapore actually covers
Dog grooming in Singapore is the professional maintenance of a dog's coat, skin, nails and ears, covering a full groom, a bath and tidy, de-shedding, de-matting, a nail trim or a puppy's first introduction. It is delivered either at a studio you travel to, or by a mobile groomer who comes to your home. Owners searching dog grooming near me, or dog groomer near me, are choosing between those two formats as much as between two businesses. The same work is advertised as pet grooming singapore wide, as a dog spa or as a pet salon, and none of those names changes what happens on the table.
What we are, and what we are not
Dog Grooming SG is a matchmaker, not a salon. We do not groom dogs. We take your enquiry once and pass it to independent Singapore groomers who do the work and quote you directly.
Free for owners
Matching costs you nothing, and you pay the groomer directly for the groom itself.
No ranked best list
We cannot grade another business's work honestly, so we do not pretend to.
One enquiry, not ten
You describe your dog once instead of typing it into six contact forms. Read the quotes, book none of them, and nothing further happens.
What a groom costs in Singapore in 2026
How much is dog grooming in Singapore? Grooming price by size is the honest answer: a full groom costs $70–130 for a small dog, $110–200 for a medium dog and $150–350 for a large or double-coated one. A bath and tidy sits below that at $45–160. De-shedding, de-matting and nails are usually add on grooming charges rather than inclusions.
Mobile grooming adds roughly $20–40 for the travel, published variously as a convenience premium, a flat transport surcharge or a pickup fee. For the ranges by service, by size and by add-on, read the full Singapore price breakdown.
| Service | Small / toy | Medium | Large |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bath & tidy | $45–75 | $65–95 | $90–160 |
| Full grooming | $70–130 | $110–200 | $150–350 |
| De-shedding (add-on) | from $20 | from $35 | from $60 |
| De-matting (add-on) | from $15 | from $25 | from $40 |
| Nail trim (add-on) | $10–20 | $10–20 | $15–25 |
Indicative ranges based on published Singapore salon rates (2026). Your matched groomer confirms the final quote.
Why two quotes for the same dog can differ by $80
Both figures are usually real. One Singapore salon publishes a small full groom from $50 while another prices a toy at $110–130, and the gap is not dishonesty: the first is a clipper cut on a standard blade, the second is a hand-scissored finish that takes an hour longer. Coat condition moves it again, because a tangled coat turns a routine groom into timed de-matting work. Groomers here publish four different ways of charging for that time, from $10 per five minutes to $30 per half hour, and one caps the surcharge at half the groom price after 30 minutes of free detangling.
Brushing at home between visits is free, and it is the single most effective thing you can do about the price.
Which grooming service does your dog actually need?
Which grooming service do I need is the question owners ask last and should ask first, because most wasted grooming money in Singapore is spent booking the wrong one. Find the symptom you are living with on the left, and the service on the right is the one to ask for. You can also browse all six grooming services if your dog has more than one of these.
| What you are seeing | Ask for | Typical |
|---|---|---|
| Coat has grown over the eyes and the shape is gone | Full grooming | $70–350 |
| Dog smells within days of a wash, but the cut is fine | Bath & tidy | $45–160 |
| Loose fur on every surface in the flat, all year | De-shedding | add-on from $20 |
| Comb catches behind the ears, under the collar, in the armpits | De-matting | add-on from $15 |
| You can hear the nails clicking on the floor | Nail trimming | $10–25 |
| New puppy, never been on a grooming table | Puppy grooming | $45–95 |
The six services, and who each one is for
These are the six dog grooming services singapore groomers actually sell, and every business names them differently: the word basic means four different things across one page of search results. Here is what each dog grooming service does and the dog it suits, including what a full groom actually includes.
Full grooming
A full dog groom is bath, blow dry to the skin, clipper or scissor haircut, nail trim, ear cleaning and a sanitary trim. Best for coats that keep growing: poodle grooming, shih tzu grooming, maltese grooming, schnauzer coats. Every 6 to 8 weeks, $70–350 by size.
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Bath & tidy
A dog bath and blow dry, brush-out, nails and a light tidy of face, feet and paw pads, with no haircut. Best between full grooms and for short smooth coats that never need cutting. Bath and tidy in Singapore runs $45–160.
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De-shedding
A de-shedding treatment is a bath plus undercoat removal with a high velocity dryer and an undercoat rake, pulling dead hair before it lands on your sofa. Best for corgi grooming, pomeranian grooming and other double coats in shedding season. Add-on from $20.
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De-matting
Mat removal charged by the time it takes, working mats behind the ears and under the collar with a metal comb before any clipper comes out. Best when a comb no longer passes through. A pelted coat may have to be clipped, and the groomer should call you first. Add-on from $15.
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Nail trimming
Dog nail clipping on its own or inside a groom, often with a paw pad trim, ear cleaning or anal gland expression as small add-on charges. Best for indoor dogs whose nails never wear down on pavement. $10–25 standalone.
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Puppy grooming
A puppy's first groom is a short, gentle introduction to the table, water, clippers and dryer rather than a haircut. Best from around 12 weeks, once vaccinations are done. Puppy grooming in Singapore sets the tone for every appointment after it.
Learn moreCoat type decides almost everything
Breed is a shorthand. Coat is the thing a groomer actually prices, because it sets the tools, the drying time and how fast the coat mats between visits. Singapore's HDB one-approved-dog rule concentrates the national dog population into small breeds, and three of the five coats below are the high-maintenance ones that rule produces.
Curly and wool
Poodle, Toy Poodle, Bichon, Cavapoo, Maltipoo, Cockapoo
Shed hair stays trapped in the curl instead of dropping, so it felts against the skin. Needs line brushing with a slicker brush to the root, and doodle grooming gets harder through the adolescent coat change at eight to twelve months.
Long silky
Shih Tzu, Maltese, Yorkshire Terrier, Havanese
Tangles at friction points first: behind the ears, under the collar, in the armpits. Daily combing beats a drastic cut, and a puppy trim buys weeks of easier maintenance.
Double
Corgi, Pomeranian, Spitz types, Shiba Inu, Golden Retriever
Two layers, and the top one shields against heat as well as cold. Shaving usually leaves the dog hotter and the regrowth patchy. Blow out the undercoat instead, which is what a de-shedding treatment does. With no cold season there is no single coat blow, so shedding season here is the whole year.
Wire
Schnauzer, Jack Russell, wire terriers
Harsh outer coat over a soft undercoat. Clipping softens the texture and dulls the colour over time, which is why some owners ask for hand-stripping on the jacket.
Short smooth
Singapore Specials, Beagle, Pug, French Bulldog, mixed breeds
The lowest-maintenance coat here and the one owners skip too long. Still needs baths, nails, ears and skin checks, plus wrinkle care on flat-faced dogs.
A note from handling our own dogs
Bathing and drying small breeds here, the coat that gives trouble is almost never the one that looks worst on the surface. It is the one that felt slightly damp at the roots yesterday. Mats form in the layer you cannot see, which is why stopping mats before they form is about drying properly at least as much as brushing.
Why Singapore's climate shortens every grooming interval
Humidity keeps a coat damp long after the dog looks dry, and a damp coat tightens as it finally dries, which is how a brushable tangle becomes a mat overnight. There is no cold season to trigger a single moult, so double-coated dogs here shed all year instead of twice. Air-conditioned rooms and 32-degree corridors cycle the skin between dry and sweltering several times a day.
Advice written for London or Ohio assumes none of that, so the interval shortens here and the schedule that works is two cycles rather than one. Read how often to groom a dog here for the intervals by coat type.
The two-cycle rule
- Haircut: every 6 to 8 weeks for coats that keep growing.
- Bath: every 3 to 4 weeks, sooner for dogs that walk parks or beaches.
- Brushing: to the root, not over the top, at least twice a week.
- Drying: to the skin every time, or the smell comes back in days.
Get a quote for your dog: get matched with a dog groomer who covers your block, free.
Get matched freeMobile groomer or studio drop-off?
Mobile vs studio grooming is really a three-way choice in Singapore, and the middle option gets left out of every comparison. Mobile dog grooming in Singapore costs roughly $20–40 more than studio drop-off, whether that is billed as a convenience premium, transport, or a pet taxi pickup. For the full side-by-side, read mobile against studio, side by side.
Mobile van
A grooming van is a self-contained studio on wheels with its own water tank, high velocity dryer and table. Your dog never travels and never waits. Best for nervous, senior and small dogs, if a van can park at your block.
Home visit
Dog grooming at home, with a home visit dog groomer working in your bathroom or service yard from a portable kit. No parking problem at all. Limited by your water, your space and how much drying power a domestic socket carries.
Studio drop-off
Studio dog grooming is the cheapest of the three, with the most equipment and usually the best hand-scissoring. Some studios add grooming with transport, a drop off and collect run for an extra fee. Best for large dogs, full breed cuts, and dogs that guard the home.
The HDB car-park problem nobody mentions
A grooming van is a tall vehicle, and plenty of Singapore's multi-storey and basement car parks post a height limit it cannot clear. Groomers work around it with surface lots, loading bays and drop-off points, but which of those exists is a fact about your block, not your town. Give the block number and postal code when you enquire, so the groomer can check the access before either of you commits to a time. Condominiums add a second step, because service vehicles usually have to be registered with security in advance.
If parking rules the van out, the home-visit format usually still works. How a mobile groomer reaches your block covers both, including what the groomer needs from you on the day.
Grooming across all 55 Singapore towns
We match island wide in 55 towns across six regions, from Woodlands to Pasir Panjang. Coverage is not evenly spread, and we would rather say so: the mature central and eastern towns have a studio every few blocks, while large outer towns like Jurong West and Choa Chu Kang have far more dogs than groomers. Yishun dog grooming and Punggol dog grooming draw the most enquiries in the north east, Tampines and Bedok in the east. These are the busiest, and the hub lists groomers covering your town.
What a full groom looks like
How matching works, step by step
- 1
Tell us about your dog
Breed or size, the service you want, your postal code, and whether you want mobile or studio. About a minute.
- 2
We route it to groomers who cover you
Only groomers serving your postal code and offering that service see the enquiry. We do not broadcast it island-wide.
- 3
They contact you with a quote
Usually the same or next working day, by whichever channel you gave us. More than one where coverage allows.
- 4
You book, or you don't
You deal with the groomer directly on price and timing. There is nothing to cancel with us if you book nobody.
What to have ready before you enquire
Four details turn a vague quote into a real one, and they are the four a groomer will ask for anyway.
Breed or size, and rough weight
Weight bands set the base price at most Singapore salons, so 4kg against 9kg changes the quote.
Postal code and block number
Not just the town. It decides which groomers cover you and whether a van can physically park.
When the last groom was
The honest date, even if it was a year ago. It is the single best predictor of matting.
Anything a groomer should know
Nervous around dryers, bites at nail clippers, arthritic, recovering from a skin condition.
Three owners, three different answers
The same search term brings very different dogs to this page. These three end in three different services and two different formats.
Yishun, a matted doodle, no car
A cockapoo six months past its last groom, tight mats behind both ears, and nobody in the flat drives.
A mobile or home-visit groomer, booked for a de-matting groom rather than a haircut. Ask for a call before anything is clipped short, and expect the de-matting time to be charged on top.
Bukit Timah, a senior Shih Tzu
Fourteen years old, arthritic hips, hates the car, cannot stand on a table for two hours.
A groomer who works at home so the dog never travels, or a studio that grooms seniors in short blocks. Sanitary trim, face, feet and nails first. The full breed cut is the thing to drop, not the bath.
Punggol, a shedding corgi
A BTO flat carpeted in fur, an owner about to book a shave-down out of desperation.
A de-shedding treatment on a 6 to 8 week rhythm, not a clipper. The undercoat is what sheds, and a high-velocity dryer pulls more of it in one session than a week of home brushing.
How to tell a good groomer from a cheap one
Price tells you almost nothing on its own. Five questions separate a groomer who plans the appointment from one who is guessing, and the questions worth asking a groomer goes through each in full.
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Ask what happens if the coat is matted
The answer you want is that they call you before clipping short. A groomer who decides alone is telling you how the day will go.
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Ask how the dog is dried
Hand or high-velocity drying to the skin, or a cage dryer and a wait? In this humidity the difference shows up as a smell two days later.
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Ask how long the appointment takes
A large double coat done properly runs two to three hours, most of it drying. A 45-minute quote on that dog is a clipper, not a groom.
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Read reviews for detail, not stars
A review naming a breed, a coat problem and what the groomer did is worth fifty that say fast and friendly.
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Ask what the quote does not include
De-matting, de-shedding, teeth, ear plucking and medicated shampoo are commonly priced on top of the base groom.
Who this is not for
If you already have a groomer your dog is comfortable with, stay with them. Coat familiarity is worth more than a slightly better price, and a settled dog on a table is the whole game.
- Same-hour emergencies: we cannot conjure a slot this afternoon. Call studios near you directly.
- Cat owners: out of scope here. Cat grooming is a different skill and a different insurance question.
- Anyone wanting a ranked list: we will not publish one, for the reasons above.
- Welfare concerns: those belong with SPCA Singapore, not a matching form.
Where our price figures come from
Every figure on this page comes from rates that independent Singapore salons and mobile groomers publish themselves, collected and last checked on 25 July 2026. We do not set prices and we do not receive them from the groomers we match you with. Where published rates disagree, we show a band and name the driver behind the spread rather than pick the flattering number.
We revise the bands when enough published rate cards move, and the date above changes with them.
Licensing, microchipping and the HDB rules behind Singapore's dog mix
Every dog in Singapore must be licensed with the Animal and Veterinary Service, and a microchip comes before the licence application. For a sterilised dog the fee is $15 for one year, $25 for two, or $35 once for the life of the dog, against $90, $165 and $230 for a dog that is not sterilised. Check the current figures on the AVS licence fees page and apply through licensing a pet through PALS.
HDB allows one approved small breed per flat, published under limits of ownership. That single rule is why this market is dominated by small, high-maintenance, continuously growing coats, and why grooming here is a recurring cost rather than an occasional one.
What we do with your details
We share your details with matched Singapore dog groomers so they can contact you with a quote. They go nowhere else: not to marketing lists, not to unrelated third parties, and not for sale. Ask us to remove your enquiry and we delete it, which is your right under Singapore's PDPA as administered by the Personal Data Protection Commission.
The full detail of what happens to your details is in the privacy policy, in the same words as the consent line on the form.
Why there are no testimonials on this page
Because we have not fulfilled enough enquiries to have earned any. Dog Grooming SG is new, and the honest version of that is an empty reviews section rather than a wall of quotes we wrote ourselves. Real owners get quoted here once they have used the service and consented, with nothing invented around them.
What you can check today is the substance: sourced prices with a date, government links you can click, and a plain statement of who pays us.
What is included when you get matched
Free, always
Matching costs owners nothing, at any stage.
More than one option
Where coverage allows, so you can compare rather than accept.
No obligation
Ignore every quote you receive and nothing happens.
You set the price with them
We do not take a cut of what you pay the groomer.
Common questions about dog grooming in Singapore
How much does dog grooming cost in Singapore?
A full groom runs roughly $70–130 for a small dog, $110–200 for a medium dog and $150–350 for a large or double-coated one. A bath and tidy sits lower, at $45–160. Mobile adds about $20–40 for the travel. These ranges come from rates Singapore groomers publish, last checked 25 July 2026, and your matched groomer confirms the real figure.
How often should I groom my dog in Singapore?
Coats that keep growing need a professional groom every 6 to 8 weeks, the interval Singapore's Animal and Veterinary Service publishes for continuously growing coats. Baths run on a shorter cycle than haircuts here, often every 3 to 4 weeks, because a coat that stays damp in this humidity mats and smells within days.
Is mobile dog grooming more expensive than a studio?
Mobile dog grooming singapore rates usually sit $20–40 above studio prices, published variously as a convenience premium, a transport surcharge or a pickup fee. It buys no journey, no waiting room and one-to-one attention. Mobile is not automatically better: full hand-scissoring, very large dogs and dogs that react to a stranger entering the home all go better at a studio.
Is it really free for me?
Yes. There is no fee to enquire, no booking fee and no share of what you pay the groomer. You agree the price directly with them, and we never see it.
What happens after I submit the form?
Your details go to groomers who cover your postal code and offer the service you asked for. They contact you directly with a quote and their availability, by whichever channel you gave us. You compare, pick one and book with them, or ignore all of them. We are not in the appointment.
Which grooming service does my dog actually need?
Match the symptom, not the price. Coat over the eyes means a full groom, a smell days after a wash means a bath and tidy, fur on every surface means de-shedding, a comb that catches means de-matting, clicking nails mean a nail trim, and a puppy that has never met a dryer means a puppy introduction.
Can a grooming van reach my HDB block?
Sometimes, and it depends on your car park rather than your town. Grooming vans are tall, and many multi-storey car parks post a height limit they cannot clear, so the workaround is a surface lot, a loading bay or the drop-off point. Give your block and postal code so the groomer can check first. Condominiums often need the vehicle registered with security.
Do you rank or recommend a 'best' groomer?
No, and we will not publish a ranked best-of list. We have no way to grade another business's work honestly, and a paid ranking dressed as an editorial one is what this site exists to avoid. We match on coverage, service and format, then let quotes, reviews and your own questions decide.
Guides worth reading before you book
No form on any of these. Read first, decide later.
Guide How often to groom a dog here
Grooming frequency by coat type, and why the bath cycle and the haircut cycle are not the same one in this climate.
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Guide Stopping mats before they form
Line brushing, the right metal comb, and the signs your dog needs grooming sooner than the calendar says.
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Guide Choosing a groomer in Singapore
What to ask a dog groomer, the answers that should worry you, and how to read reviews for specifics.
Learn moreReady when you are
One free dog grooming quote request, island wide across all 55 Singapore towns, mobile or studio. Tell us about your dog and trusted local groomers come back with a price and a dog grooming appointment that suits you. No obligation to book.