TAFE pet groomers show coup | March 26, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

NSW TAFE Yallah teacher Bonnie Harrison checks in with students before they head to the 2024 Sydney Royal Easter Show. Video by Sylvia Liber

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00:00 Okay, so make sure all everything's in proportion.

00:04 You got nice clear muzzles.

00:05 If you need to hot glue gun,

00:09 make sure it's, yeah, everything's put in place.

00:13 If we're using our spray paints,

00:16 we're gonna do that outside,

00:18 but we need everything put into different sections.

00:21 - Okay, so my name's Bonnie Harrison.

00:23 I'm the pet grooming teacher at Yellow Tafe.

00:25 We have international judges.

00:27 So we've got a judge coming from Italy, New Zealand,

00:30 and an Australian judge.

00:31 They're going to be critiquing and assessing

00:34 my students' model dogs of all different creations.

00:38 So there'll be a first, second, and third place.

00:41 So this is really a good step in the door for new groomers

00:45 to express their creative side at the Royal Easter Show,

00:50 and also to watch master groomers

00:53 as perform their art on all these different breeds

00:55 that they may have never seen before, except in a book.

00:59 So they'll be watching their techniques,

01:01 watching their skills,

01:03 and learning as they're watching the show,

01:05 and also an opportunity for them

01:08 to get some critiquing and feedback on their model dogs

01:12 of all their hard work that they've put in for this course.

01:15 May Wong, who is the creator and runs the Royal Easter Show,

01:19 was kind enough to allow my students

01:21 to have their own category in the grooming competition.

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