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FUR vs HAIR: Understanding the Foundation of Coat Type

  • 06/26/2026
  • 10:00 AM
  • 07/03/2026
  • 11:30 PM
  • Virtual

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FUR vs HAIR: Understanding the Foundation of Coat Type
The critical decisions we make about a dog’s grooming should be based on understanding the diverse and unique genetics of how that dog’s coat grows. Jennifer has helped transform and standardize the grooming industry by describing 15 grooming coat types in 11 categories. But they all start with the most important question – genetically, is this Fur or Hair? Each are groomed completely differently. Knowing these two genetic hair growth categories, and being able to recognize which one any given dog falls into, determines how to groom that dog. This seminar will equip you to be able to recognize the differences in these coat categories and decide how the groom must be done appropriate to that dog’s natural genetic growth patterns.


Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins opened her multi-award-winning grooming salon Love Fur Dogs in Glencoe, Illinois (USA) in 2014. Named "Best Groomer in Chicagoland" by the Chicago Tribune, she has been grooming, breeding, and showing several breeds of dogs for over four decades, including Himalayan cats. Jennifer was a career high school teacher and administrator, as well as a community college teacher,  with two Masters degrees in History and Education. She also became a leading activist, organizer, and advocate on several public policy issues after her sister’s murder in 1990. She was named to Who's Who in 2024/2025.  Jennifer is an International Certified Master Groomer with an expertise in the science and history of dogs and the unique grooming needs of the many varied pet coat types. She holds the PGC credential, as well as being a PGC educator. She was featured on Season Three of the Hulu Television Series Small Business Revolution as a Grooming Expert. Jennifer writes a “Groomers Guide” monthly column for Barkleigh’s Groomer To Groomer magazine and has won an award for her blog. Four times Barkleigh Honors nominated, a Barkleigh Honors Winner for Journalist of the Year in 2025, and a popular pet grooming seminar educator, Jennifer has also been active in legislation that affects pet groomers, building state and national grooming associations, groomer education, and credentialing. She is writing a book A Groomers Guide to the Fifteen Coat Types and has published her visually helpful 15 Coat Types poster that is already selling globally, all based on her ground-breaking seminar. Jennifer and her author/educator/husband Bill are also award-winning and prominent victim advocates who love living now in Virginia with their Miniature Poodles and Australian Shepherds.

"Promoting Professionalism, Safety and Sanitation

within the California Professional Pet Grooming Industry." 

California Professional Pet Groomers Inc. is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization.

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