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The ultimate guide to groom your dog like a pro

Posted December 21, 2021

Happy corgi wrapped in a towel after a bath. Regular grooming goes beyond keeping your dog's hair clean. It helps improve blood circulation and also allows you to spot injuries early.
Regular grooming goes beyond keeping your dog’s hair clean. It helps improve blood circulation and also allows you to spot injuries early.

Dogs are known as man’s best friends. This is due to their naturally caring demeanor and willingness to be obedient to their owners. Regular grooming is crucial to maintaining your dog’s cleanliness and health.

Why groom your dog?

Contents

  • Why groom your dog?
  • Does regular grooming make your dog’s coat and skin healthy?
  • How often should you take your dog to the groomer?
  • How do you bathe a dog?
    • Where will you bathe your dog?
    • Prepare your dog for a bath
    • Pick your dog’s shampoo with care
    • Bathing properly
  • How to brush a dog?
    • Get your tools ready
    • Set up the right location
    • Short to medium hair
    • Long coats
    • Wire coats
    • Related Posts

Taking care of your dog is essential to its health and general wellbeing, and regular grooming for your dog is an integral part of taking care of it. As a person, you ensure you take a bath daily and adequately attend to your body’s needs, and the same should go for your dog, too. 

However, regular dog grooming goes beyond keeping your dog’s hair clean. It helps to improve blood circulation in your dog. It also allows you to spot injuries or marks on your dog as early as possible and gives you an edge in better care of your dog.

The purpose of grooming your pet is to ensure you address your dog’s physical and health concerns. Choosing a reliable pet groomer is crucial to ensuring your dog’s wellbeing.

Does regular grooming make your dog’s coat and skin healthy?

The straightforward answer to this is a definitive yes. Brushing your dog alone can help keep your dog’s coat and skin free from parasites and pests that could attach themselves to it. Brushing your dog also improves the flow of blood, which in turn increases your dog’s skin glow. 

How often should you take your dog to the groomer?

To determine how often you should take your dog to a groomer, consider factors such as the dog’s coat length, the kind of fur, how fast its claws grow, and your grooming preferences. Typically, dogs with longer hair need to visit the groomer more frequently than those with shorter hair.

How do you bathe a dog?

Bathing your dog is no small task, and some experts advise bathing your dog at least once a month. Your dog’s breed determines how often your dog needs a bath. While washing your dog, keep these things in mind:

Where will you bathe your dog?

While some dogs are small enough to be washed in a kitchen sink, others require more space. Knowing what applies to your dog will provide you with enough space to bathe your dog thoroughly.

Prepare your dog for a bath

Not all breeds of dogs like water, so getting your dog to take a bath might be much more tedious if it doesn’t like water. The solution, make the bathing experience one it will enjoy. You can do this by adequately cleaning it before every bath and associating the bathing experience with positive actions. It would be best to start this when the dog is still a puppy.

Pick your dog’s shampoo with care

While regular shampoo might be OK for some dogs, it would be best to get a specifically designed shampoo for your dog’s breed. That’s because human skin is different from dogs’ and requires different ingredients to care for our needs properly. Use puppy shampoo to bathe puppies. Be sure to pay extra attention when cleaning near your dog’s eyes.

Bathing properly

Bathing properly includes checking the water temperature, which should be just warm enough for your hand can handle. After that, you should use the shampoo twice — one to remove dirt and one to clean your dog’s skin. Finally, you should rinse your dog with clean water, then towel it dry.

Tip: When washing, make sure you keep all the items you need, such as towels and brushes, within reach.

How to brush a dog?

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Like washing your dog, brushing helps keep your dog clean and removes dead hair. Brushing can be done more frequently than washing. You just need to pay attention to certain things including:

Get your tools ready

When you are brushing your dog, you don’t want to leave halfway after brushing a part to search for a missing tool. Therefore, having your tools at your fingertips can save you from searching. Also, depending on your dog’s breed, you will need a bristle brush, a comb, scissors, pin brush, curry brush, mat, and tangle remover, and shedding blade.

Set up the right location

Remember that hair will fall off when you brush your dog and brushing on a rug or mat definitely becomes a bad idea. Choose a place that is suitable for you and your pet.

Short to medium hair

The length of your dog’s hair determines how and what tools you will use. A bristle brush and a pin brush will work just fine for applying firm strokes in the direction of hair growth.

Long coats

For those dogs with longer hair, you will need a pin brush, mat, and tangle remover. In addition, scissors and combs would be needed for trimming around the face and eyes of the dog.

Wire coats

It is advisable to leave regular grooming of dogs with wire coats to a professional since you would be using the stripping knife or your hands.

Taking good care of your dog is the best way to show your love for your dog. The best way to maintain your dog’s health and beauty is to feed and groom him properly.

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