Pet Grooming

Pawsitivity Pet Spa is a dog grooming salon and spa on Patton Avenue in West Asheville. Its website describes it as a one-on-one holistic grooming space that focuses on keeping dogs calm and comfortable, from new puppies to sensitive seniors and nervous dogs. Grooming services are built around baths and haircuts. A bath includes shampooing twice, nail trim and file, teeth brushing, ear cleaning and a hand blow-dry and brush-out. Full haircuts and stand-alone nail trims are also listed. The site says its staff receive training in gentle handling techniques. Pawsitivity also offers spa programs for particular needs, such as a puppy program, a sensitive senior program, Touchy Toes for nail anxiety, and desensitization and rehabilitation sessions. You can book through the website.

Hair of the Dog is a cage-free dog grooming, daycare and boarding business on Sweeten Creek Road in South Asheville. Its website says it has groomed dogs here since 1999 and added daycare and boarding in 2008. Grooming runs from full grooms and lighter "neaten" sessions to breed trims, shave-downs and add-ons like color, feathers, bows and mud baths. Quick nail, face and sanitary trims are offered on a wait-with-your-dog basis, booked ahead by phone. Daycare dogs play in groups on a turfed outdoor yard with tunnels, ramps and toys, and the site asks owners to book daycare in advance. For boarding, the website says a staff member stays overnight on site, and new boarders first come in for a short daycare assessment.