Dog Grooming Tools

Grooming is an serious part of your dog's health, with always brushing and combing helping to remove dead hair and dirt and prevent matting. Dogs who are regularly groomed incline to have a healthier and shinier coat because it stimulates the blood supply to the skin.

Grooming your dog can also be a nice way to bond with your dog, and it's important to get him used to it from an early age. Many dogs learn to see their routine brushing as an alternate petting, another source of affection and attention. A good quality brush and comb will help you with your dog's coat, but also remember that your dog's eyes, ears, and nails require attention as well.

In this topic I'll tell you the basic dog grooming. OK, let start with brush him with a slicker brush all over everywhere head to toe paying special attention to areas like the legs, where knotting occurs frequently. Then double check by a metal comb and between the toes there are another common place for knot.If you have the dog with the tail you want to check the hair on the tail, because a lot of time that gets tangled and if you hold the tail a little more comfortable for the dog. I am going to check it with the comb and once again if knot we will be able to use this anywhere on his body, just being very careful to keep the flap part against his skin and the sharp part against the knot on his hair. Now if you have a dog like a bearded collie or briard something with really long hair, you might want to learn about line brushing. Line brushing is done by lifting up the hair of course it would be longer on those breeds and just pulling out hair all along a line and moving up and pulling hair of the next line and moving up and pulling hair up. And that's a great way to check your dog all over for knots.We will check him from head to toe, all four legs, of course we will move our sharp tools away from his feet, all four legs and anywhere there is a joint, elbow, a hock, you more likely to see knots in those areas. Belly line if you get a really bad knot you want to take your #10 blade and just shave out just the knot and then you could brush over, that will save the dog a lot of pain. Now your dog is almost ready for the tub.

We are talking about dog grooming and right now we are going to bathe a water dog. First, lift your dog up. And, the way to properly lift a dog is to place one hand in the front and one hand in the rear and lift with your legs, never with your back. Always tether your dog in the tub so he doesn't jump out or get away from you and never leave your dog unattended in the tub. Now, when we bathe a dog you want to make sure you get the water warm and basically you want to start from the head and neck area and work your way back down his back. Work your way along the sides, back legs, his tail, get up under between his legs, get his belly, get his chest and the front legs. I like to do the head last. Make sure you never get any water in the ears. Always keep the ears down. And try to avoid the eyes. Get the muzzle and the beard nice and wet. With the shampoo, I usually do it the same way. You start at the base of the head and the neck and work your way down the back. Make sure you lather it up, and on the sides, down the back legs, get the front legs, the belly, between his legs, the tail, and definitely his rear end. On the head, you want to pour the shampoo on the top but keep the ears down, make sure no shampoo gets in the eyes, on the muzzle, his cheeks and finally his beard. You just want to work that into a real good lather. His ears, and just go over his whole body. You want to just massage the shampoo in there to break up any dirt or dead coat that might be in there. Work it into a real good lather. You want to pay special attention to the legs and the feet, things that are closest to the ground that pick up the most dirt and debris and tend to be the dirtiest. Work it between the pads, rear end and his tail. OK, now it is time to rinse.

In this series we are going to learn about rinsing the dog, that has already been soaped up and lathered. You turn your water on and make sure it is warm. Once it has warmed up enough come up to the head, you want to rinse the water, rinse all the soap off of his head, make sure you pay special attention to the eyes, you want to rinse all the soap off of the ears, making sure you don't get any water down in his ears. And you want to work your way down his head slowly, rinse the muzzle, rinse his beard, other side, the muzzle and the beard, okay. And now you want to rinse the rest of the dog and basically you start up at the neck work your way down the back. You always work from the top down. I am going to rinse his front legs next. Rinse off his feet, make sure you rinse in between his pads, same with the other leg. Now rinse it on the other side. Rinse his belly. It is very important to have your hand in there so you can feel that the shampoo is being rinsed off, you never want to have shampoo left on your dog. You want to rinse up in between his legs. Rinse his rear-end off. Work down the back legs and his tail, get his other back leg. Okay, he is clean and rinsed and now he is now ready to be dried.

Right now I have a water dog that has been bathed and rinsed and I am going to show you how to properly dry him. First you take your towel and dry off his head, want to massage all around there and make sure you get his beard and his cheeks, his muzzle and dry off up underneath his ears, dry off his ears. And then you can work down the rest of the dog, starting at the back, vigorously rub, try and soak up as much as the water as you can. Sometimes it takes more than one towel and work your away down his chest and his neck across the sides, his belly, work your way down his legs, down his tail. All right, this dog has been towel dried now. The next step of getting a dog dry is to use what is called a forced hairdryer and a forced hairdryer shoots a very high volume of air at the dog and it blows out any wetness that is in there and also when any dead coat that is in there. When you are going to blow out the dog you make sure you never get the air stream, ears or in his eyes or in his mouth. You always want to keep it just on the top of the skull and work your way down the neck and the body. I am going to use ear protection because it is also very loud. Okay he is about 90% dry now. He is going to go into his cage and he is going to dry the rest of the way.

Now, we are going to learn how to finish grooming the dog. That means you have already prepped and bathed and blown dry your dog and you are ready to do your finishing haircut. he has had his bath, he has had his blow dry. We are going to go back and re-brush him again just like we did before the bath, but this time we are going to go little quicker. Because we know we got all the tangles out. If you brush against the curve you really fluff it out, sometimes that helps make the cut go more evenly and you can smooth it all out with the comb, make sure, head to toe you do it. This is the overall of basic dog grooming. See you next time!

Ideally, you'll want to brush your dog every day to start. For a puppy especially, this will get him used to being groomed so you can avoid brushing-related behavior problems in the future.

How often you brush your dog after he's used to it will depend on the length of his coat. You can stick with once a day, but most short-haired dogs only need to be brushed once a week. Dogs with thick coats will need to be brushed two or three times a week, more often during the beginning of spring and fall when shedding is the worst. Dogs with long hair will likely require daily grooming to avoid tangles or mats.

If you fit dog brushing into your daily routine, you'll keep your dog's coat clean and healthy and build his trust in you.

We are going to be talking about some of the grooming tools that you need when you are going to be working with a dog. Listed below are the basic dog grooming tools you'll need to do the job right

Currycombs: are made out of rigid metal point and they have a wooden or plastic handle. They are very useful if you are looking to get rid of large amounts of hair that has shed (such as for German Shepherds), currycombs are also used to untangle knots in certain parts of the dog's body such as their ears, paws or tail. It's very important to use this instrument carefully as it can cause harm to the dog's skin if pulled on too hard.

Dog brushes: There are many different types of brushes for dogs; however, professional dog groomers do not use them that much because they prefer to use teasels. Brushes are great for breeds that have long and fragile hair,especially if the coat is getting properly taken care of. You can choose between metal brushes, plastic ones, hard ones of soft ones.

Dog trimmers: Trimming blades have a plastic or wooden handle and they help the dog owner to easily pull out small patches of dead hair by grabbing the dead hair in between the blade and your thumb. The size of the trimming blade can be medium size for areas that need to be well trimmed such as the stomach, and or fine for the areas that need to be shaved such as the throat, ears etc.

Dog nail clippers: are an indispensable item. It' s important to learn how to trim your dog's nails and to do it neatly. There are two different and basic types of nail clippers, both of which work well. One is the guillotine style clipper, and the other is the standard scissors style nail clipper. These models come in different sizes. The basic models work just fine. When the nail cutter no longer cuts its time to get a new one.

            So you can see there are a large number of items that you need to collect when you are going to be working with your dog. Finally, Work with it with the appropriate tools in an appropriate way!

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