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What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath

A Dog Groomer

What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath

Dan Heath

Storytelling, Business, Curiosity, Society & Culture, Jobs, Careers, Human Interest

4.9820 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sculpting mullets on Havanese, enduring countless bites, and surviving level-five furnadoes with Aaron Williams, a dog groomer in Alabama. Why is the grooming table his most powerful psychological tool? And which part of the grooming process is most dreaded by dogs? You can see Aaron in action at his YouTube channel. Want more episodes featuring professions who work with animals? We've spoken with a veterinarian, a cattle rancher, and a dog trainer. WANT MORE EPISODE SUGGESTIONS? Grab our Wha...

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0:00.0

Aaron Williams is a dog groomer, but...

0:03.6

Honestly, I don't look like what people would think a dog groomer should look like.

0:10.2

And they're kind of surprised that that's what I do, that I'm a dog hairdresser, basically.

0:15.8

Now, why are they surprised?

0:17.8

Well, I guess historically, groomers have been, like like older to middle-aged women. Like at my

0:25.0

animal hospital where I work, I'm the only guy that works there. And there's like 25 women.

0:30.2

Oh, wow. Yeah, I mean, I'm younger and tattooed and bearded. And I look probably more like a

0:36.1

tattoo artist than I would a dog groomer.

0:38.3

Okay.

0:39.3

And the way he looks shapes the grooming requests that he gets.

0:44.3

People see me and something clicks in their head and they said, I should give my dog a mohawk.

0:48.3

That guy looks like he could give my dog a Mohawk.

0:50.3

So I do that.

0:52.3

I've got two little havenies that are coming into me now that get

0:57.0

mullets. Yeah, you know the 80s haircut? Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, we're doing that. And then they get

1:04.2

boots as well, like bell bottom boots, and the rest of them is shaved, and then they have a mullet

1:10.5

on their head. So they're a mullet on their head.

1:11.4

So they're a pretty funny looking little dudes.

1:13.8

I turned, one of the doctors that used to work with us had a very large standard poodle,

1:19.3

a brown standard poodle and I cut him in to look like a buffalo.

1:23.8

I was pretty proud of that.

1:25.1

Yeah, he looked pretty cool.

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