Tips And Benefits Of Dog Grooming

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Dog owners can help maintain a healthy coat for their dogs by carrying out regular grooming. The grooming removes dead hair, as well as any extra bits which the dog may be carrying about in its coat. Additionally, grooming a dog helps you to examine the coat more closely to check for any skin problems and helps you and your dog to bond more closely.

Benefits of Grooming a Dog
There are many benefits of grooming a dog, for example:
1. Helping you and your pet to bond more closely
2. Stimulating blood flow to the skin thus promoting skin and hair growth

 

3. Making your dog’s coat more shiny and healthy as natural oils circulate to the coat
4. Helping you to identify signs of fleas, ticks, mites or other skin irritations

Basic dog grooming is quite straightforward and also essentiaL, so owners do not need to be afraid of getting into this routine with their dog. Regular grooming is essential to your dog’s health and wellbeing. Also there are medical reasons why grooming should be a part of your dog’s health program. Grooming covers the following set of functions:


1. Brush and comb the coat
2. Bath and dry
3. Trim coat hair
4. Care of the paws and nails
5. Ear cleaning
6. Anal gland expression.

 

You can carry out some of these things yourself if you are able to, especially the brushing and combing. By doing this, you will be able to check your dog closely for any problems that may be developing. Some of the other aspects should be done by professional dog groomers.

 

Brushing helps to prevent hair from accumulating and ending up on clothes and furniture. It also stimulates the blood to the dog’s skin. Brushing should be done regularly for short periods of about 5-10 minutes each day. New hair can grow once the old hair has been removed. Brushing in a grooming spray such as Perfect coat will help keep fleas, mites and ticks under control and help to prevent skin infection and other skin problems occurring.

  

Bathing the dog using suitable dog shampoo such as Cloud Star Buddy Wash will help to get rid of loose dead hair and stimulate circulation to the dog skin. Cloud Star Buddy Wash will also reduce the growth of bacteria and yeast which cause those doggy odours and will make your dog smell much better.

 

You can also use Perfect coat grooming spray as often as you like without having to give the dog a bath. This will help to keep the coat clean, without the inconvenience of bath time and without affecting the essential oils that should remain in the coat.

After reading this tips and benefits of dog grooming you should remember to do it for your dog's health and cleanliness.

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How To Brush Your Labrador Retriever

There are three grooming tools you can use when you thought of how to brush your Labrador Retriever

Your Labrador Retriever should be brushed two to three times each week. Brushing will reduce some of the hair in the house, and that’s always nice. But brushing also stimu¬lates the oil glands in the skin, which help keep the coat healthy and shiny. 

Pin Brush
A pin brush looks like a woman’s hairbrush. It has an oval head with numerous metal, pinlike bristles. These pins have round heads on them, like a bead. This brush will go through the coat down to the skin (and the bead on the bristle pre¬vents scratching the skin) and will loosen clumps of coat, dirt, grass seeds, burrs, or other debris. Use this brush first.

To brush your dog, lay him on his side and sit or kneel next to him so that you and he can both relax. Then, starting at his head, begin brushing in the direction the coat grows. Brush with the coat, from the head down to the tip of the tail. Make sure the brush goes all the way through the coat to the skin; don’t just skim over the top of the coat. By going through the coat to the skin, this brush will make sure the undercoat is not bunched, clumped, or stuck together. It will also pull out the dead undercoat.
When you have finished one side, then roll your dog over and do the same thing on the other side.

Slicker Brush
Not all Lab coats have the same density and texture. If your Lab has a more dense coat, the slicker brush may be a better choice. A slicker brush has many thin wire bristles that are bent at an angle. This brush is effective at getting out all the dead hair, especially from the undercoat. Use the slicker brush after the pin brush, and use it the same way you did the pin brush. Don’t forget the tail!

Shedding Blade

The next tool you will use is a shedding blade. This looks like a flexible saw blade bent into a U shape with a handle holding both blades together. This does not go through the coat but, instead, will pull out all the dead outercoat. With your dog still lying on his side, repeat your previous pattern, going over the dog from head to tail on each side with the shedding blade.

Vacuum
You may also wish to introduce your dog to a canister vacuum. If he will toler¬ate it, it will help tremendously to get the last bits of shedding coat off the dog. When you’re done brushing your Lab, you should have a dog with a clean, shiny coat and a garbage bag (or vacuum bag) full of loose hair.

From now on everytime your were thinking on grooming your dog, you'll always think of this how to brush your labrador retriever for sure, am i right? especially for you Labrador lovers. peace out ^_^

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