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State Library of New South Wales

Naoko Ohara, Sakura la Dog Grooming Salon, 80 Wilson Street, 21 February 2012

a8817 Online No. 18

"I am very happy to see our customers’ dogs’ tails wagging when they visit our salon."

In addition to grooming, Sakura dresses dogs with seasonal clothing, ribbons and bandanas.

The first annual dog show of the Pomeranian and Toy Dog Club in NSW took place in the Oddfellows' Hall in Wilson Street, Newtown in 1915. 145 dogs were entered, including poodles, pugs and chow-chows.

The signature poodle clips here include; the lamb, the teddy bear, the mohican and the sweetheart, where the rump hair is coiffed and clipped into a love-heart shape.