Quick and Easy Dog Grooming Tips

Grooming your dog is an essential part of basic dog care. Here are some great quick and easy dog grooming tips to help you groom your dog even better and easier. 

Put your dog on a leash.  It will help her be more controlled by you.  You can’t have her running around the house and this way if she does start to run, she won’t get very far. 

Have someone help you.  If you are dealing with a large or small dog, it is always great and so much easier to have someone there holding your dog. 

Put a different collar on your dog.  Normal collars tend to bleed and are really bad for dogs when they are wet.  You need a collar to restrain your dog but use a different one so that your dog doesn’t get sores after a bath. 

Brush your dog’s teeth before you give her a bath.  Use a special toothpaste that is just for dogs.  To help your dog with her teeth everyday, give her special bones to help her teeth.  They will prevent rotting and dental problems in dog teeth. 

Clean your dog’s ears.  They get wax build up just like anyone else.  Use a cotton ball and not a q-tip because the q-tips are too small and could go in too deep.  Use a cleaning solution that you can buy from any pet store to help you.  You need the cleaning solution because it helps your dog more than soap and water would.

Do everything else before you give your dog her bath.  It will make everything else easier and that way if she somehow gets toothpaste on her hair, it will be washed off easily in the bath.

Use a dog hair dryer.  Human blow dryers can burn your dog.  Dog hair dryers are made special for them and really help a dog with little or tons of hair.  If you use a human hair dryer to blow dry your dog’s hair, you will spend hours blow drying it. 

Clean your dog’s eyes. The older a dog gets, the more gunk she has around her eyes.  Use a special cleaning solution when cleaning your dog’s eyes.  It will make it easier on you plus you shouldn’t be using anything else to clean her eyes. 

Cut your dog’s nails.  Dog nail have to be cut often.  Check every time that you give your dog a bath.  If your dog’s nails get too long, they can get infections or cause skeletal damage to the dog’s bones.  Never cut into your dog’s pink part of her nails.  It will cause tons of bleeding and will really hurt your dog.  If you cut your dog’s nails and they start to bleed, put some corn starch on the nail and apply pressure.  If the bleeding doesn’t stop soon, call or go to the vet immediately. 

Brush your dog’s hair before you trim or wash it.  It will get out any knots and really let you work the shampoo into the hair.  Use a rake to get out any really big knots, dirt, and any loose hair. 

Use a thicker comb when brushing your dog’s hair and then go over it again with a smaller comb.  You don’t want to use a too small comb and really hurt the dog.

When you are trimming your dog’s hair, get it wet first.  Then make sure that you cut small amounts off first and cut more off later if you want more off.  Brush your dogs hair again after to make sure you like what you did.

Give your dog a bath with a shower attachment.  Don’t put them in a tub full of water because you will just be washing them in dirty water.  If you don’t have that option, drain the water often.

Give your dog a treat after you are done.  Show him that you are proud and happy she did such a good job.

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