You already do the whole thing
Tub, shampoo, brush, towel, dryer. You have done this with your own dog more times than you can count. The steps do not change when the dog belongs to someone three streets over.
Get the wash, brush-out and de-shed routine for 100+ breeds and coat types and start tonight. Wash, price, book. No salon, no grooming van, no haircuts.
A neighbor complains about the hair on the sofa and you think "I could do that." Then the doubts pile up, you say nothing, and you let the moment pass.
Three videos in and it is clipper blades, breed cuts, a certificate and a fitted van. Nobody tells you a smaller version of this exists, so you close the tab and the idea goes back in the drawer for another year.
Washing was always the easy half for you. Saying a number out loud, and holding it when someone asks you for a discount, is a different skill entirely, and nobody was ever going to teach you that by accident. We get into exactly what to charge further down this page, so keep reading.
A big one that will not stand still. Hair down somebody else's drain. The owner watching you from the doorway. That nervousness is normal, and you have felt it before every decision that turned out to matter in your life. We will not tell you it is easy. We will tell you it is simple, and that if you like dogs and you like people, this is close to the perfect little business for you, and it does not pay badly either.
You were never missing the ability. You were missing the tools. Today that changes, and you are far closer than you think.
There is no theory in any of this, and no chapter on mindset. Your neighbors are already paying somebody to do what you do in your own bathroom, and the only people selling them a better version want tens of thousands of dollars for a fitted van and a title. The person three doors down does not want a title. They want their dog washed without losing a whole day to it. That is why 2,800+ women have picked this up in the last twelve months, and why it sits where four things meet that almost nothing else offers you at once.
Tub, shampoo, brush, towel, dryer. You have done this with your own dog more times than you can count. The steps do not change when the dog belongs to someone three streets over.
Every double-coated dog on your street sheds twice a year, and its owner spends that month vacuuming the sofa, the car and their own clothes. They are not looking for a haircut. They are looking for less hair, and right now nobody near you is selling them that on its own.
Their alternative is a drive across town, a long wait in a crate and a dog that comes home rattled. Owners who rebook write the same words over and over: gentle, patient, stress free, calm afterwards. One dog at a time, in its own bathroom, is the whole advantage.
A wash listed at forty to sixty dollars is a few dollars of shampoo and an hour of your time, in a bathroom you did not have to heat or pay rent on. Right now the salon across town keeps that difference. No van payment, no franchise fee, no shop owner splitting the ticket. From your own street, it is yours.
You don't need to be a groomer. You don't need a business. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Grocery money, gas money, a bit of breathing room. Something local and real, with people you can see from your own front step, rather than an MLM or some random side hustle off the internet.
A nervous rescue, a stiff old Labrador, a husky blowing its coat all over the hallway. You want the calm, hands-on part of dog care, and none of the sharp tools.
Maybe the kids grew up, or you cut your hours, and you want a small local thing you can run at your own pace and stop when you want to. You're not too late.
Pick one calm dog you already know and run the four steps: bath, brush-out, de-shed, dry. The Coat Index tells you exactly which brush, how long and how to dry that coat. If you have bathed your own dog, you are already doing this part.
Drop your drive time, the coat type and your supplies into the calculator and get a number you can say out loud without flinching. No guessing, no awkward math, no underselling yourself.
Copy and paste the post into your neighborhood group. Six questions on the phone tell you if a dog is a yes, and some are a no, which protects the dog, the owner and your afternoon all at once. Then you write the next date on the card before you leave. One wash is a favor. A date on the calendar is a route.
Right now your Tuesday belongs to somebody else. You watch the clock, you answer to a schedule you did not write, and by the time you get home the day is gone and none of it was yours.
Now picture the other Tuesday. You walk four streets over at ten in the morning. You already know this dog, because you asked six questions before you said yes. You put the mat down, you run the water, and for one hour there is nobody to please except a spaniel who has decided you are wonderful. You brush out a trash bag of loose hair. You dry her properly. You leave the bathroom cleaner than you found it and you write the next date on her card before you pick up your bag.
No boss. No schedule handed to you. No commute across town. No stock in your hallway. No haircut you are terrified of getting wrong. You are home before lunch, and by the evening that owner has already mentioned you to the woman two doors down.
That day could be today.
We hand you the how, the how much, how far and how often. The only piece we cannot hand you is the why, and that one is yours. Here is what other mobile services publicly list for each service you can safely offer.
Sells for $40–$60
Sells for $45–$70
Sells for $55–$90
Sells for $15–$25 add-on
Sells for $70–$85
Spring & autumn peak
Ranges are taken from public price lists for mobile and house-call dog washing in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, converted to US dollars. Some of those menus also include services this kit deliberately leaves out. They are examples of what others list, not a promise of what you will charge or earn. What you charge depends on the sizes and coats you decide to take on, your area and your costs.
The Coat Index gets you washing any dog that knocks. These three solve what actually stops people: what to do first, what to charge, and which dogs to say no to. And you still get 5 more bonuses on top.
The exact roadmap to the first ones. Which dog to start with, who to offer it to, what to post, what to say when they answer, and in what order, so you are never sitting there wondering what the next step is. How quickly you get there is down to your area, your price and how many doors you are willing to knock on.
Most people quote for the hour in the bathroom and quietly hand over the forty minutes of driving, setting up and cleaning up around it. Drop in your distance, your coat type and your supplies, and see what the whole appointment is actually worth before you say a number out loud.
The six questions to ask before you agree to anything, the red flags that mean no, the owner-present rule, and the exact words for turning a dog down and for stopping a session halfway through. Turning a dog down is not you being difficult, it is you protecting the dog, the owner and your own afternoon at the same time, and it is the one thing free advice never gives you permission to do.
Plus 5 more inside: The First 10 Clients Script Book, The 80/20 Route Card (the four checks that tell you if a client is worth taking on), The Doorstep Trust Kit, The Starter Kit List, and The Neighborhood Route Planner.
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The Wash-Price-Book Starter Kit
Messages from women who started with the kit.
I've been washing my own two for years and never thought twice about it 😅
10:14 amPosted the script in our neighborhood group, three replies the same evening. Washed my neighbor's golden on Saturday 🤯
10:15 am
He looks so shiny!! 😍 Are you booking more?
10:22 am ✓✓She booked me again for four weeks before I'd even packed up 🐶
10:23 amThe calculator was the part I really needed
2:05 pmI always find myself undercharging 🙈 Turns out I was giving away 40 minutes of driving and cleaning every single time
2:06 pm
A strict price list changes everything 🙌 Nice work Amanda!
2:15 pm ✓✓Now I just read the number off the sheet. No wobble 😊
2:16 pmI'm 54 and I was worried my back wouldn't take it 😔
11:32 amSmall and medium only, two dogs a day, all within ten minutes of me. The intake questions gave me permission to say no 🌿
11:33 am
Diane that little face 🥹 The dogs are lucky!
11:45 amNot big money but enough, and my body can tolerate it 💕
11:46 amWe know exactly what you're thinking: "if I could get one neighbor to say yes, I'd know this can work." So that's all we ask. Try the full kit for just 7 days. Wash one dog you already know. Ask one neighbor. The intake questions, the price sheet and the exact words to post are already done for you. If it doesn't fit your life, email us within 7 days and we refund you in full. You keep what you've downloaded. We part as friends.
We have never met you, and we hope this goes as well for you as it possibly can. Our team spent weeks stripping this down so that your part of it is as simple as we could make it. What we cannot do is take the decision for you.
Here is the pattern we keep seeing in the women who get the best results with this: they are not the best with dogs, and they are not "business people." They are the ones who run the four steps once, on a calm dog, in a real bathroom, before they talk themselves out of it. Twenty-seven dollars is not really the point. The point is that the moment you pay for something, it stops being an idea you have in the car and starts being a thing you are doing, and clicking that button already puts you ahead of almost everybody who read this far and did nothing. Today is the day you draw a line under the older version of you.
And you would be early. Hardly anyone is offering this yet, the same dogs need washing again in four to eight weeks, and every client you keep is worth far more to you than the first appointment. There is a version of this further down the road where you are not the one holding the shower head at all, but that is a conversation for another day. One dog you chose, one wash, one date on the calendar. One payment, instant access, and one wash you book could cover the whole kit. What you charge, and what you keep, depends on your market and your costs.
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