A gentle, cage-free dog spa in Millerton, NY

Specializing in anxious and sensitive dogs.

All dogs are welcome, but I love me a challenge!

25 Park St Millerton, NY 12546

860 630 0961
kpsgoodbaby@gmail.com

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The real work happens in the tub

Because clean skin is healthy skin.

KP’s Good Baby Dog Spa offers Thera-Clean microbubble technology, carefully selected coat products, and a groomer who can find a way in with almost any dog. (I do cute haircuts, too!)

Services

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    The Works

    Full service groom for your dog’s skin and coat needs.

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    3-2-1 Package

    Countdown to Calm Skin

    For problem skin and coat cases.

    Learn more →

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    Bath and Body

    Spa bath, microbubbles, brush, and blowdry.

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    And more!

    Deskunking, puppy package, grooms-to-go, handstripping, I do it all. Reach out!

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I'm Kristen Panzer. Life is short, so I decided I would spend it doing what I love — making dogs gorgeous again.

In the fall of 2022 I took an online groom tech course, quit my office job, and landed my first job bathing dogs in the back of a groom shop. You're sure you want to do this, they asked me. Yeah, I was sure. How hard could it be, right?

Wrong! It was super hard. The groom shop was chaotic. Dogs were scared. Most days I felt like I was being punked. So I quit.

Had I come to the end of my dog grooming journey? No way. I got my learn on. I took more courses, went to in-person groom school, certified with Fear Free, studied canine skin and coat, and kept working until I figured out what good grooming actually looked like. Then I invested in Thera-Clean microbubble technology and everything clicked.

What I discovered along the way became the foundation of KP's Good Baby Dog Spa — and of an approach I call Adaptive Grooming. I'm still learning. The dogs are still teaching me. That's the whole point.

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* I love me a dirty dog when it means I get to wash them! This is my dog, Poppy.

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