Areas we serve: Woodside, Sunnyside and western Queens, NY

This is a fixed salon. Every appointment at Woodside Pet Grooming happens on our premises at 37-32 61st Street, on our tables, with our own tubs, dryers and equipment. We do not offer mobile grooming and we do not travel to a client's home, workplace or anywhere else — if a booking depends on us coming to you, we are not the right salon for it.

• Woodside

  Home turf, three minutes on foot from the salon door. Mostly low-rise apartment buildings and attached houses with small yards or none, so most Woodside dogs get their exercise from walks rather than a yard — coats that are well exercised, generally clean, and on time for a four-to-six-week slot because the salon is close enough to be an easy errand rather than a special trip.

• Sunnyside

  A ten-minute trip for most, and a genuinely active dog-owning stretch of the neighbourhood around Doughboy Park's dog run. We see a lot of confident, well-socialised dogs from Sunnyside, and more cats than you might expect for a neighbourhood of walk-up rowhouses, kept strictly indoors and booked into the quiet room.

• Jackson Heights

  Dense co-op buildings and a short ride on the 7 train. Multi-generational households are common here, and it is not unusual for two or three family members to bring one dog in together, each with a slightly different idea of the haircut — we ask everyone to agree on a length before the clippers come out, not after.

• Elmhurst

  A mix of family houses and apartment living, and more first-time dog owners than most of the neighbourhoods on this list. A larger share of our Elmhurst bookings are a puppy's very first groom, which is exactly the appointment this salon treats most carefully.

• Astoria

  A longer trip along the water, and a neighbourhood with real green space at Astoria Park for a dog to get properly dirty in before a bath. Astoria clients tend to book early or late in the day around a commute into Manhattan, which is what the first and last slots of the day are held back for.

• Long Island City

  The newest housing stock on this list, with more doorman and elevator buildings and, correspondingly, more cats kept as a single professional owner's apartment companion rather than a household pet. It is also where we get asked most often why we do not offer a mobile van — the honest answer is above.

• Maspeth

  Quieter and more residential, with more actual yards than the neighbourhoods nearer the subway, and as a result more dogs who pick up a tick, a scrape or something unspeakable from an unsupervised half hour outside. A short drive rather than a train ride for most Maspeth clients.

• Corona

  A busy, family-dense neighbourhood a little further from the subway, and one where we see a genuinely wide mix of breeds and sizes, from small apartment dogs to large family dogs that outgrew a yard years ago. Most Corona clients drive or take a bus rather than walk.

• Rego Park

  A straightforward trip along the Long Island Rail Road or by car, and a neighbourhood of larger apartment buildings where an indoor cat and a mid-sized dog are both common. Rego Park bookings skew toward the regular, on-a-rhythm end of our client list rather than the occasional visit.

• Forest Hills

  The furthest of these ten neighbourhoods in a straight line, and still a manageable trip by car or the Long Island Rail Road. Forest Hills clients often keep a longer, styled coat on a doodle or a poodle, which is exactly the coat that needs the steadiest four-to-six-week rhythm to avoid the matting conversation.