Hair removal is an essential part of the grooming process. You should always brush and remove any knots in your dogs coat before bathing. Other ways of removing hair are trimming, cutting, and stripping. An example of a breed that needs stripping is a Border Terrier. Stripping is important because like the Border Terrier, it is a non-shedding dog and the dead hair needs to be removed. A stripping knife or your fingers may be used. Hand-stripping allows the new coat to grow in, and is the proper method for grooming show dogs, Terriers and hard-coated breeds.
A list of tools are curry combs, shedding blades, scissors and clippers and stripping combs and knives. Some of these tools are usually not required unless you have a show dog. A curry comb is made of rubber with short "teeth", and is used to loosen dirt, hair and other detritus. This tool is also very useful in helping the dogs skin produce natural oils. To remove dead hair from a dogs coat you can use a shedding blade, which has short dull teeth.
Scissors and clippers are usually used on long-haired breeds and show dogs. These remove hair at certain lengths and styles that the groomer or owner may prefer. Stripping combs or knives are used to pull out long hair out of harsh coats by the root. All of these tools are essential to maintain a proper coat in many Terriers and Schnauzer's. If you want to learn these methods, I would suggest you ask a groomer for more advice and maybe they would even let you watch how some of it is done.
http://thehartofgrooming.blogspot.com
http://www.thehartofgrooming.com
0 comments:
Post a Comment