Slow tables
One dog on the table, then a rinse of the tools, then the next. We do not stack appointments so tightly that a nervous collie has to wait in a dryer chorus.
Grooming that lets a dog breathe
Our strengths
We keep a two-table grooming room on Jockey's Fields, a quiet cut-through between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields. That address is not a branding exercise. Dogs arrive after the Central line, a walk from the Inns, or a cab that sat in Clerkenwell traffic, and they need a minute before anyone lifts a clipper. We built the day around that minute, not around a stopwatch hanging above the bath. You will notice it in small ways: the door is not slammed, the dryer is not the first sound they hear, and someone actually looks at the coat instead of reciting a package name.
Our strengths are ordinary on purpose. The radio stays low. Shampoo gets rinsed until the water is actually clear. A clipper goes down if a coat is too tight, too wet, or too hot. We write how a dog stood on the table so the next visit is not a guessing game. None of that looks loud on a homepage, and we are fine with it. A lot of London grooming is sold as theatre. We would rather be the place you trust on a wet Wednesday in 2026, when your terrier has collected half of Gray's Inn Road in their furnishings and you need someone honest about what can be done before you collect them at five.
People sometimes want a salon that promises a show coat in fifty minutes. Coats do not work like that. A double coat needs drying time. A hand-stripped terrier needs patience. A senior spaniel needs a pad under the hips. We would rather talk through the extra twenty minutes than send an animal home itchy because we watched the clock. If you are reading this with a puppy on your lap, or a rescue who hates dryers, say so when you book. We will put it on the card. Habunor is a London room where your dog can be a bit awkward and still leave looking like themselves, not like a catalogue photo from a different breed.
Coat honesty
If a clip is going to change the texture, we say so before the first pass. Some coats should be grown, not carved, and we will tell you which is which.
Quiet handling
We work with treats, mats, and pauses. Restraint is a last tool, not a personality. Puppies get shorter first visits on purpose.
Neighbourhood hours
We live on a working street, so we keep weekday slots that fit office walks and a Saturday morning for people who cannot do Holborn at noon.
What we offer
Most of our week is five kinds of work, not a menu of twenty-four add-ons with confusing names. You will see the same photographs on the services page because they are the same jobs: a full breed groom, a bath and brush, paw and nail care, a hand-strip or breed cut, and a puppy introduction. We priced them for Holborn in 2026, which means they are not bargain-bin and they are not theatre tickets either. A full groom on a medium coated dog usually sits in the high sixties and climbs with coat, knots, and temperament. A bath is the honest middle. Nails are short on the clock and still get a steady pair of hands. Puppies are cheaper because they are shorter, not because we rush them. Hand-strips take the longest, and we will say so before you rearrange a working day.
Pick a card, tap through to the booking note at the bottom of this page, and tell us the breed, the age, and the last time they were in a salon. If they have never been on a table, say that too. We would rather put you in a longer slot than pretend a first visit is a finish. Cats who tolerate a bath and a tidy can be booked as well, though we talk through handling on the phone first. None of these buttons invent a second form. They simply drop you onto the one booking form we keep here, with the service already chosen when we can. If you are choosing between a bath and a full groom, write the last clip date in the notes; we would rather steer you than let you pay for a shape we cannot honestly finish in the time on the board.
What the numbers actually mean
We put a few figures here because people ask, not because we run a ticking widget on the wall. Habunor Grooming Limited has worked from this corner of Holborn since we took the keys at 14 Jockey's Fields in 2021, after ten earlier years in a borrowed Bloomsbury wash room. In 2026 that is fifteen years of coats, not a franchise countdown. We still run two tables. That is a choice. A third table would mean a third dryer, a tighter corridor, and dogs waiting in a line of noise. Two tables keep the room walkable and let Harriet Langford stay on the floor instead of disappearing into a diary app.
In a usual week we finish around thirty-five appointments. Some are ninety-minute full grooms. Some are twenty-minute nail visits for regulars who live off Theobald's Road. That volume is enough to keep the kettles on and small enough that we still remember who hates having their tail handled. We do not publish live counters, spinning totals, or “dogs groomed today” boards, because those things turn animals into a score. The percentages you will see on the services page never climb past forty-five percent, even when someone stacks a referral with a birthday month. If a number below looks modest, that is because a modest studio wrote it. Fifteen years also means we have already met the coats that look easy in a photograph and then take two hours once the underlayer is dry, so the diary has learned to tell the truth about time rather than selling a slot that cannot hold the dog.
15 years
Grooming in this part of London, including the years before Jockey's Fields.
2 tables
The whole studio floor. We did not add a third in 2026, on purpose.
35 visits
A typical week of grooms, baths, nails and puppy slots combined.
45% cap
The highest loyalty adjustment we will ever apply to a single visit.
Book a grooming slot
This is the only form on the page. Use it for a first visit, a regular, or a “can you just look at this tangle” question. Tell us who you are, how we reach you, the pet's name, and which of the five services you want. A preferred date is a wish, not a lock; we will write back from habunor@hotmail.com with a time that actually exists on the board. If a field turns gold after you press send, something was missing or the email did not look like an email, and nothing left our desk. If the green note appears, we have it.
Please do not use the form for medical advice. If there is a wound, a hot spot, or a lump you want hidden under a clip, speak to a vet first. We can work around a cone, a stitch line we have been told about, or an older dog who cannot stand for long, but we will not diagnose from a photo. Cats need a sentence about handling. Very heavy matting may mean we suggest a kind clip rather than a fairy-tale brush-out, and we would rather have that conversation in writing before you take time off work. Phone +442072427230 if typing on a bus is a pain. WhatsApp and Viber sit in the footer if you prefer a thread to an inbox. If two of you share a dog, put the number of the person who will actually collect them, because a closed chambers phone at five o'clock is how a spaniel ends up waiting in a towel while we try every contact on the card. A booking note is not a deposit; we confirm, then you come. If the date you typed is already gone, we will offer the next kind gap rather than pretending the board is empty.
Questions people actually ask
These are the conversations that happen on the pavement outside 14 Jockey's Fields while someone fumbles a lead. We wrote them down so you do not have to wait for a reply to learn whether we sedate, whether you can watch, and what happens when a coat is more felt than fur. The answers are from 2026 practice, not from a brochure written when the studio opened. If your question is weirder than these, that is fine. Weird is normal in grooming. Put it in the booking note and we will answer in plain English, even if the answer is “we are not the right table for that”.
Usually no, and not because we are hiding anything. Most dogs settle faster when the person they love is not in eyeline, gripping the lead and narrating. You can wait on Jockey's Fields or wander toward Lincoln's Inn. If a puppy or a rescue needs you for the first ten minutes, we will say so when we confirm the slot.
We do not rip felt out of skin to protect a length of hair. A kind clip may be the kinder day. We will show you the coat, talk about the price difference, and only continue if you are happy. There is no prize for leaving a dog sore.
Some cats, not all. If they travel in a carrier without panic and accept handling, we can bath, comb, and tidy. If they need heavy restraint, we will point you toward a clinic setting instead of pretending our room is a surgery.
Regulars often sit two to three weeks ahead. A first full groom is easier if you write seven to ten days out. Nail-only visits can appear sooner. Saturday morning goes quickly because Holborn workers use it.
No. If a dog needs sedation, that is a veterinary conversation, not a salon shortcut. We can pause, pad, and shorten a visit. We will not drug an animal to finish a haircut.