Brushing Long Hair Dogs

Series Summary

Grooming is an essential part of your dog's health and happiness. Brushing fur and trimming nails not only keep a dog looking great, but also keep fur mats from forming and prevent your dog from developing broken, painful nails. Grooming can also promote bonding between you and your dog. If routinely groomed, many dogs will enjoy their regular brushing and come to see it as a form of petting. In addition to brushing and trimming nails, cleaning your dog's ears and eyes will allow a dog owner to inspect for any health problems, or insects. Adjusting your dog to a grooming routine early, ensures that not only will your dog be comfortable with you and professional dog groomers, but will lead a long, happy, and good looking life.

In this free video series, learn how to groom a long haired dog. Our expert, Marie Jackson , shows you how do clean a dog's eyes and ears. Learn how to remove mats from your dog's coat. Also, learn the proper grooming supplies for dogs. So, treat your best friend! Learn how to groom a dog today!

Video Transcript

"Your long hair dog needs brushing and to brush the coat and keep the mats out between your professional grooming visits, we can, I'm going to show, demonstrate how to do that and keep it nice and clean. I mean nice and brushed. You start by pulling the hair up. Sushi stay. Start by pulling the hair up and you brush from underneath down. A lot of people try to brush the top first, like so. And this is nice, but when you get underneath you can see that doesn't look very brushed. So we're going to brush underneath first and come down. You might run into some, some mats, some big tangles, but that's okay. You just want to kind of brush over those, remember where they're at and you can go back over it with the, with the mat splitter. So again, we're going to pull this up. Come on Sushi, you're alright. We're going to brush down and get the under part first and then the top part over it. And that's a good brush."