The First Steps to Grooming a Dog's Head

Video Transcript

"So grooming the head of a long coated breed can be quite difficult. If you'd look right here, we've got a beard, this is the muzzle. So let's identify the head parts first, we've got the eye, the ear, we've got the muzzle, and here's our beard it's quiet narley. I'm sorry this is the mustache, here we got our beard underneath. So, dogs typically don't like having their face pulled around with, it could be sensitive with the around their lips, but as you can see it can get quiet nasty if they chew on marrow bones or greenies or in this case if they eat raw food. So we need to keep this quiet clean. We would start off with easier parts right around the ear and the eye and when you're doing this you want to hold the hair so you're not pulling the hair and I'm starting off using a very, very soft brush. When I'm doing the hair around the lips and you can see it's all gunked up together, I'm holding that hair. If I get to a particularly gunked up place I'm going to use my slicker and I'm going to just slicker right through that. I'm going to work gradually down the length of the muzzle and you really need to have your dog comfortable and lying still. Again, I'm holding the hair so that I'm not pulling the dog's hair. You need to brush this out and then wash it. You don't want to wash it when it's all matted like this, but if you brush it out, then you can wash it out."