Your local veterinary clinic can advise you about suitable brushes and combs. Remember to praise your dog and give them tasty dog treats throughout the grooming session and when finished to end on a good note. This will positively reinforce the activity and help to make it a pleasant experience. In addition to brushing, some dogs may need their hair trimmed from time to time. Some professional groomers will work from a vet clinic. Never point scissors towards the dog, extra care must be taken if trimming any hair around the eyes to avoid contacting the eyes.
Use food treats to reward for calm behaviour so your dog associates hair trimming with positive things and rewards. Moreover, different types of dogs can require different brushes.
Make sure the brush does not cause any physical discomfort to your dog. Brushing should be a pleasant, soothing and relaxing activity for your dog. Talk to your local vet clinic and professional groomer for advice. Change brush types and decrease the pressure applied if your dog seems at all uncomfortable. Short-haired smooth coated dogs may suit a soft grooming glove or soft brush to remove loose hair. Note: Adequate daily exercise should help to keep nails in good condition and at a good length as nails are naturally worn down.
Please enable JavaScript to use this site and refresh the page. How Often to Bathe Your Dog How often to bathe your dog will vary between each individual dog and their particular needs. What Type of Shampoo to Use. Outdoors For some dogs it can be easiest to bathe them outside in the backyard on the ground. This way, owners can avoid lifting, particularly medium to large-sized dogs. This can also be a good option for dogs who try to jump out of the tub. Some owners choose to use a garden hose set on low pressure.
Step 1: Teach your puppy or dog to be comfortable with handling in general, by patting and stroking different parts of their body. Step 2: When introducing your dog to bathing, do it slowly and give them plenty of praise and tasty dog food treats for being calm and tolerating the process. Step 4: Before bath time, you can try going for a nice walk and then, after having a rest when arriving back home, you can try bath time. Take things slow and easy so that they feel relaxed and comfortable.
Washcloth Avoid wetting the head area as dogs are very sensitive there. Rinse After shampooing your dog, gently rinse out the shampoo thoroughly using your fingers to ensure that you get through the undercoat.
Conditioner Next, you can apply a gentle hypoallergenic dog conditioner, repeating what you did when shampooing your dog. Treats Remember to offer some tasty dog food treats to reward for calm behaviour and for staying with you, when you can throughout the activity.
Drying Your Dog While dogs will tend to instinctively shake off excess water after getting wet, you will probably also need to help them dry off with some large absorbent towels. How to Prepare for the Bath Preparing for the bath is the next step to take. Grooming Your Dog. As a general guide: Smooth, short-coated dogs e. Kelpie can generally be brushed once every few weeks to remove loose hair. Dogs with short coats can still shed hair at times, so gently brushing them can help to remove loose hair.
Short, dense furred dogs e. These dogs can generally be brushed once a week or fortnightly. Long-coated or double-coated dogs e. Border Collie. These dogs can generally be brushed on a weekly basis to prevent mats and to remove tangles.
This helps to facilitate grooming and also helps to prepare dogs for physical examinations during vet consults. Training Your Dog to Enjoy Grooming. Step 3: Once your dog is used to having the brush next to them and when your dog is relaxed, try brushing very lightly and gently with just a few strokes on the chest area. Step 4: Once your dog is comfortable with brush strokes in the direction of the hair growth you can do the occasional brush stroke in the direction opposite hair growth.
Step 5: Make sure the brushing experience is always comfortable and soothing for your dog. Step 6: If your dog gets upset or seems uncomfortable, stop brushing and resume on another day starting on a body area that your dog is comfortable with, and then continue to reward for calm behaviour and gradually build up from there.
Trimming Hair In addition to brushing, some dogs may need their hair trimmed from time to time. Common body areas that may require regular hair trimming for some dogs include: Around the eye area, if the hair is starting to obscure vision or cause irritation. Hair growing around the anus which is trapping faeces.
Hair around the chin and lower jaw trapping food or to help prevent lip and chin fold infections. Areas where debris grass seeds, burrs are trapped in hair. Areas where there are hair mats and tangles. Safety tips: Ask your local veterinary clinic for advice. Blunt-nosed safety scissors should be used. Checking their feet and footpads regularly to ensure there are no wounds or infections. Some dogs can have extra hair between their footpads which can become matted or catch debris e. Carefully trimming that extra hair can help.
Removing any debris such as grass seeds and burrs around the paws. It takes more time to brush their long fur and they need to get used to staying still for this starting at an early age. That is not to say dogs with short, clipped fur do not require grooming.
Brushing , for example, is beneficial for all kinds of dogs no matter what breed they are, helping to remove dead hair, dirt, and dandruff. You can begin grooming a puppy when she is as young as three weeks old. Experienced breeders will even begin acquainting their puppies with grooming before they go to their new homes so that by the time they are picked up by their owners, they are already used to it.
Another benefit of grooming is that it allows you to check your dog for any abnormalities. This includes skin problems such as ticks, fleas and dry patches, or issues with their nails, teeth, ears, and eyes such as infection or inflammation. When found at an early stage, these problems can be treated right away, before they have a chance to become more serious. Severe hair mats can grow so tightly that they can restrict or cut off blood circulation, which can eventually require amputation.
Laslow, a 7-year-old Shih Tzu who was surrendered to the ASPCA last October and was recently adopted, was treated for skin allergies related to untended mats. Another Shih Tzu, Roo, seized by the NYPD last winter, had her right front limb amputated due to strangulation of the limb from severe matting. She, too, has since been adopted. Cats, especially breeds with long and medium-length hair, are also prone to health issues caused by matting. Broccoli and Apricot, two cats who came to the ASPCA from a hoarding situation, had to be shaved completely to eradicate their dangerously-matted coats.
Both have been adopted.
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