Dog Grooming Tips for the Neck

Video Transcript

"So the final part we're going to talk about in terms of at-home maintenance for your coated dog is the neck area. The neck area can be troublesome, the area starting behind the ears, coming down the neck of the dog. Identify - here's the dogs head, here's the dog's neck area, here's his ear. This area can be troublesome because they can scratch right here. They can be playing with each other - if one dog takes another dog and they're pulling him around. The other reason is because it's a lot finer. The coat, right here behind the ear, is a lot finer. So what we want to do is start right behind the ear. Find a matted area. When we have the matted area, we're going to take the fingers and put it under the matt. Then we're going to start working the brush gradually through the matt, seperating the hair as we're pulling through the matt. So we're basically inceasing the area of brushed hair. But we want to always be holding the hair from behind so we're not pulling the dogs hair. So if we get a nice large matted area like we've got right here, we're going to gradually pull pieces out away from the matt, and working it through the coat, always holding the coat so that we're not ripping it and we're not pulling the dogs hair. I find the most important part is that you work... as you're working through the coat that you are sperating it, so that you're not trying to work through the entire area all at once. So here we've got a nice mattted area here to demonstrate on. Take my slicker brush which I'm using in this case. You can see the matted area right here. Right here. So I'm going to hold most of it and I'm just going to pull gently the brush through the side moving gradually, through the matted area. You can also use your pin brush to do the same thing. Identify you're matted area, hold the hair, and work you're pin brush through. Not as effective. I prefer using this one. But once you've got the hair brush through and it's matt free, then you take you're pin brush and go through the coat. You're getting anything that's left over. You're checking the coat and making sure that that neck hair is lying nice and flat."