Slicker Brushes for Long Haired Dogs

Video Transcript

"Final part about slicker brushes, there's another kind of slicker brush. A little bit more expensive than the previous 2 I was showing you, very comfortable for the doge. Again, this one comes in 2 different sizes. This is an interesting unique brush. We were talking about in the other section how the padded base makes a difference for the softness and flexibility of the bristles. This brush you can see not only a padded base, but it has flexible base. So when you're working on the dog, if you're working over an angle, you can see how the brush would actually give to that angle and it'll be much more comfortable not only on your wrist but also on the dog itself. The bristles on this are also fairly close together. Bristles are flexible again, in a very flexible base. The handle is just sort of standard plastic. It doesn't have anything special in terms of holding it. This is a 2 inch one and this is a 4 inch one. I find that they are very useful in different parts of the dog. Certainly if you're working on a small long coated breed, this would be a bit too much brush for the dog. This would be a good brush working on a large breed like this guy here. Here we've got a 26 1/2 inch at the shoulders 80 pound dog, and working with a 4 inch brush is not a bad idea at all. This brush is like having of the 2 inch brushes. You can see that they work separately. You would use this on the torso of a large breed dog. You can see I'm just working right through the coat. Always when you're using a slicker brush or any kind of brush, you want to hold the hair so that you're not just ripping it right through the coat. Again, this size is ideal for torso of the coat. If we look at the hair that's coming out of the dog. We take a look at this hair here. This is the soft fine undercoat that's coming out. That's really the coat that we want to get out of the dog. We don't really want to be really taking out the overcoat, the outer coat, we want to be taking out the undercoat. This is an ideal brush for this. The smaller I like for using on smaller areas. If you're going to be working behind the leg, this fits much better in tighter area and the larger one. It's nice to have the option of the 2 different sizes. This is a great type of brush. I would suggest if you've got a coated breed getting one of these types of brushes similar to the wooden handle ones we were talking about earlier. Very nice and very soft and comfortable on the dog."