Doodle Grooming Schedule & Tracker UK | Cockapoo Cost

You were told the coat was low-maintenance. The grooming trade's own magazine calls it "a genetic roll-of-the-dice" that can be harder to maintain than a poodle's — and UK booking data (15,029 real grooms, 2026) shows matting risk rises sharply after 8 weeks without a professional groom. You weren't careless; you weren't told the truth. Doodle Sorted is the honest version, with the system that makes it manageable.

Built for UK owners of Cockapoos, Labradoodles, Goldendoodles, Cavapoos — any poodle-cross coat — for up to 3 dogs.

You get:

– An 8-tab Excel/Google Sheets workbook (no macros) with a traffic-light Dashboard: next groom due with days remaining, this week's brushing vs your per-coat target, your brushing streak, rolling 12-month spend against a benchmark built from your groomer's price — plus a coat-change flag computed from your dog's date of birth for the roughly 6–14-month window when puppy coats felt into adult coats.

– A 53-week brushing grid with honest streak maths, and a 500-row groom & cost log feeding the countdown and spend figures automatically.

– A printable Groomer Communication Sheet with your if-matted decision recorded in advance (clip as needed / call me first / de-mat only where safe) — so the worst phone call in grooming never has to happen. Your own record to show your groomer; not a contract, not advice.

– A Health Check tab that catches quiet data problems — misspelled dog names, missing dates, cost typos, duplicates — before they skew your dashboard.

– An 11-page Print Pack (PDF): a plain-English guide (why doodle coats mat, the 6–8-week schedule that prevents it, line brushing and the comb test, working with your groomer, real 2026 UK costs — Cockapoo grooms £49–£54, Goldendoodle £64–£78, a computed £320–£470 a year at Cockapoo rates) plus five printable one-pagers, among them an "after the shave-down" regrowth-and-restart page and "Is your doodle hypoallergenic? What the science actually says" — cited to the AKC, PDSA and peer-reviewed research, because no breed or cross is reliably hypoallergenic and you deserved to be told.

– Google Sheets import instructions and SOURCES.md, the claim-by-claim source table (all sources verified 24 August 2026).

Straight answers on what it isn't: it's care information and record-keeping, not veterinary or medical advice — health concerns go to your vet, human allergy questions to your GP or an allergist. It won't groom your dog, doesn't diagnose anyone, and its prices are cited 2026 UK benchmarks, not quotes. Capacity is disclosed up front: 3 dogs, 500 log rows, a one-year brushing grid with reset instructions.

Built with AI assistance and human-directed research; every factual claim is checked against the cited source — the claim-by-claim source table ships in your download.

Care information, not veterinary or medical advice — see your vet about health concerns and your GP or allergist about allergies. Support: mybritdesign@gmail.com