Gentle grooming - brushing scared dogs: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Good advice!

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In response to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Good advice! posted by desertblue:

Don't you wish you could show them what you find under all that mess?
I think a lot of it happens because it takes time for all that matting to build up. Then one day the owners notice that Fluffy isn’t so fluffy anymore and since they can’t do anything with it they go to the groomer. Usually around the holidays cause they want Fluffy to look his best for company.
I’m sure you are like I am you always have your hands on your dogs and the first sign of trouble is behind the ears. As soon as my fingers feel a matt forming the combs, brushes and rakes come out. I never have a problem with my show dogs since they are groomed every week but my retired dogs get brushed weekly and groomed once a month. Every now and then I’ll fine something I might have missed but it never gets a chance to get far enough where I have to cut it out. A few pulls with the rake does the trick then I do the whole body.
What gets me with these people is I wonder if they ever pet their dogs.
I was in a painting class one time and we were talking about dogs when one of the girls said she couldn’t get close enough to her dog to groom it so I volunteered to take a look.
It turned out to be a poodle mix and the matts were so bad that they had grown over his eyes. The poor thing couldn’t see through all the hair. It took me almost three hours to get him cleaned up and when he was done I never saw a happier dog.
You have to wonder sometimes why people even have a dog.

-- posted by StrmDncr