Eh - Dog Bather PetSmart Employee Review

2.0
Jun 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Depends on which location you work in. If you have good managers and coworkers, you’re good. Otherwise, it isn’t worth it.

Cons

Pay is too low MUST take in 5-10 dogs per day, though depending on management they may work with 4-8 dogs. It also depends on if you work 5 hours or 8. I do not believe this company is headed in the best direction. Recent restructure has lead to less hours in most cases. If you’re a bather going on to be a groomer you will NOT be prepared. Minimum dogs required before full groomer is now 250 dogs, not 6 months of training. Petsmart really doesn’t care if you have prior experience, and more than likely you will be paid less than the people coming in unless you talk to management every 6 months about your pay (1 year review + a demand)

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

The staff care a lot and try their hardest but it leads to burn out and being taken advantage of by a company the does not care about YOU.

Cons

Poor management. No work life balance. Bad scheduling. Bad pay. No communication. Leads expected to work more than 10 hours a day during high volume periods, Be responsible for too many things. You run around like a chicken with it's head chopped off the whole time you're at work. Staff are snippy, and rude. A few are okay. Company has you working bare bones, and does not care. Pet parent's are weird, and I don't think have realistic expectations that the boarding facility is more like dropping your dog off at a dog shelter for a week while you go on vacation than a "fun time" for your dog. Dogs get fed, watered, pottied. If that is all you care about, then use the PetHotel. If you want your dog to have fun, and be out of a stressful environment (few dogs do well with constant barking and noise all day, plus being stuck in a cement run, thrown in with a bunch of other dogs who have never been properly socialized) just do in home boarding. I would never board my dog at a place like this.

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