Dog Grooming Finishing Touches

Video Transcript

"So once we've worked through the entire dog we just got one area that we want to finish up with and that's the head. So once we work through the head, brush the beard and the mustache, we want to make sure that our long haired dog can see. So this guy here has a fairly long, this is called a fall, it's a very long fall. Left to its own devices this is what it would look like. You can see that its fall comes well beyond his nose right here, it's a couple inches longer and he in fact can see. He can run through the woods like this, he doesn't bang into trees. But, if we want to see his eyes we're going to have to do something about that mess. So what I'm going to show you is a couple of different things that you can do so that we can see the eyes of our dogs. Sometimes it can be important for our coated breeds who have especially long facial hair like this, when they're going through adolescence and their hair is getting longer here on the face and starting to cover the eyes, it can be important that they are still able to see, because sometimes that coincides with a fear period. Alright, so a couple of things you can do; you can do your basic top knot, so I'm going to take the hair from in front of the dog's head lifting it up and just taking the front part here, lifting it up. You want to be careful that I'm not pulling his eyes open. Can you see that here it is relaxed, here it is pulled. I don't want to make it so tight that I'm pulling the dog's eyes wide open. I'm taking his hair here and I'm going to gently twist it around, I want it to be pretty relaxed, take a little rubber band. You want to get a coated rubber band so it's not going to pull the dogs hair and I can make him a samurai knot. A little top knot so we can see his eyes, keeps the hair out of his food when he is eating and it also enables you to see his face. He's got a pretty little face."