About the owner
Emily Myatt is a Certified Master
Groomer and qualified Veterinary Nurse.
She has worked at Veterinary Surgeries on the Gold Coast and in England, UK.
Pet Grooming is just one of the Veterinary Nurses duties, if at least to prepare for surgery of a wound site.
The advantages of a Veterinary Nurse/Owner operated business is that we can often identify health problems in the pet an owner may have overlooked.
Skin problems that are hidden under a dirty and knotted coat. Dental problems or ear iinfections that require veterinary attention.
Emily has completed certificates
from PIAA in Cat Grooming, Companian Animal Hygienist. She has a Certificate
in Small Business Management and Cert IV Workplace Training & Assesment.
Since the age of 14, she has successfully shown Irish Setters, Rhodesian Ridgebacks and more recently a Standard Poodle, ."Bruno" pictured here....
Bruno proudly sits out the front
of the salon every day greeting the customers and is forever sporting a
new cut'n'colour.
In 2005 Emily made her first visit
to the USA to attend the largest conference in the world for Pet grooming
'Groomexpo'
In 2007 she returned to compete
in the first ever 'model dog' competition and placed fourth in an International
line up.
In 2008 Animal Magic won 'Snazziest
Stylist' at the Paws'n'Claws awards.
In 2009 at Pet Expo Emily won
first place in
Open Poodle, first place Open
Terrier and Second place in Creative Styling.
Emily is now an
Internationally Certified Master Groomer (CMG) and a member of IPG.
About Animal Magic
The business was started from scratch in August 1998.
A small shop in Mudgeeraba, Queensland was rented. The shopfit very basic. A single stand dryer, a set of clippers a few blades, scissors, a second hand hydrobath. The most important component being a skilled and hard working Veterinary Nurse/Groomer.
Letter box drops and referrals from the local Vets got us going and it wasn't long before our reputation was established.
In August 2004 the salon was relocated to it's current address, Shop 3/31 Railway Street as we had outgrown the original premises.
The current salon has a large
reception containing all types of 'fancy stuff'. Behind our large viewing
window is the 'styling room' where hair cutting and design is on display.
The washing & blow drying room is separate. When you see a Husky blow dried you'll know why.... just think snow storm!
All of the grooming apparatus is updated regularly to improve the efficiency and quality of our work.
Our second salon was purchased
in June 2009 and was previously known as "Snappy Snoopy". We changed
the name and renewed the shopfit, our sister salon now offers the exact
same services as at Mudgeeraba.
