Bonding with your dogs while grooming; brushing teeth, clipping nail, brushing - Updated on August 8th,2010
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Palette loves to get attention, loves to be pet and she cannot get enough of petting no matter however long we were petting her. Once she realized we stopped petting, she groans and adjust herself and come closer, offer her tummy for good tummy rubs. When we pet her slow strokes, within 3 seconds,here comes her big yawn and narrows her eyes and falls asleep. When we pet her faster strokes, she pants with her tongue hanging out, leaves wet spot on her doggy bed.
Tummy rubs,please!
Dogs love getting attention from you and enjoy being pet. Whenever I sit down on floor, Palette never miss her chance to be pet by me. She comes trot to next to me,lie down on her side, ready to be pet.
Have you wonder why dogs suddenly snaps at you while they were looking so calmed and relaxed when you or kids petting them?
Dogs, just like human, have sensitive spots. For human, spots will be arm pits, back of foot. For certain period of times, you probably can endure touching,poking and all that but if it lasts long, you would become uncomfortable and would tell people to stop tickling you. Same thing for dogs. If dogs were touched,pulled,hold, poked around their sensitive areas, they too become uncomfortable and as a result, most likely growl with low tone to warn you, then snap at you to tell you to stop touching the area.
Dogs have sensitive areas just like us, but they cannot get away with being untouched. Certain spots such as muzzle area (for teeth cleaning) , paws (for nail trimming) etc need to be handled by you, by groomer, by vet etc for various reasons.
What can you do to let them feel relaxed while such sensitive areas are handled?
Many dogs love to be pet and, they feel relaxed when you are petting them. You too would feel calm, and relaxed when you are petting them. Whenever you are petting them, keep treats near you, and even if you had no reasons to exam / touch those sensitive areas, touch them short period of time (start with very very short second), praise them big, give them treats. Start with one touch one small lentil sized treats.
As a puppy, I touched Palette's paws, muzzle, zillions of times.
How you can get your dogs used to be handled around muzzle for teeth brushing?
When I am petting her, I just pretend to look her teeth a second or two and praised her big and gave her treats. So, after 4 years living with me, she stays lie down on her side when I look her teeth, and she yawn, and careless about what I do. I do not look up her teeth as much as I used to, but I touch her muzzle occasionally. I brush Palette's teeth daily and she usually stay down position while I brush her teeth.
I did not start actual teeth brushing until she feels comfortable being handled muzzle. All I did while I was working on getting her used to have her muzzle handled relaxed was just one things.
* putting doggy tooth paste onto my finger, let her lick it off
Then, when she got excited enough for the tooth paste, I put tooth paste onto cloth and massage the teeth with the tooth paste cloth. When she could handled cloth massaging well, I bought a soft baby tooth brush, and started using it to brush her teeth.
To brush her coat with comb or brush her teeth with teeth brush, or to clip her nail, I never start my business right away. I let her sit, let her sniff at tool, and when she is calm enough, then, I start my business. I always go with her pace, not mine.
So, to brush her teeth, first thing I do is to show the tooth brush and she usually trot to me and wait with down position for me to put the tooth paste onto her brush. Then, I brush her teeth, then finish it with short petting.
My favorite tooth paste is CET tooth paste. It is double enzyme tooth paste and it seems working great for her white teeth. She loves seafood flavor best, but there are beef,poultry,malt, mint flavor. However, Palette hates mint one. She goes hide. So, I could not use mint/vanilla tooth paste for her. I do not know what makes her go hide with the particular flavor but,it never be found at our house any more. You can find them at local vet clinic office. Our local vet sells at their office. I had a chat with a couple of vet receptionists before about the tooth paste and about Palette's odd behavior for mint flavored toothpaste. They said their dogs too seem not liking the mint flavor one. They did not say their dogs go hide like Palette though.
Palette's Favorite toothpaste.She loves seafood flavor best..
*** Don't Use the human toothpaste to brush your dogs' teeth***
Recently, I found an interesting doggy toothbrush. It is called "triple toothbrush"; toothbrush head has brush from 3 sides; bottom, and both sides. Bellow is the picture of Triple toothbrush. I think it is designed to be able to brush dog teeth front,back at the same time.
Triple Toothbrush..
I got it to try out for Palette and see if it were any better than regular toothbrush I use for her,but I am not so excited about the new toothbrush.
One thing that bothers me is that, to use this toothbrush, bottom brush head has to stay bottom all the time so, that means handle has to stay bottom all the time to get it effective to use it. And, I cannot know for sure if side brushes are really brushing teeth as good as regular toothbrush can. This brush maybe works fine for front teeth (up and bottom) but not so sure about when you want to brush molars (teeth on sides).
So, after a couple of tries, I have decided I like the regular toothbrush better after all, and backed to using baby toothbrush. I liked the feel of the grip on handle and idea itself but, I personally prefer the regular toothbrush and not using the Triple Toothbrush since then.
How you can get your dogs used to be handled around paws for clipping nails?
When we went to vet check-up when she was still puppy,vet tech suggested me to handle her paw a lot and let her used to be touched. It works for your favor when you want to clip dog's nail or want to check out wound on paws.
So, just like letting dogs get used to be handled their muzzle for brushing their teeth, I touched her paws a lot and praised her,gave her treats.
For paw, I just touched her paw a little and then,if she were okay,meaning if she did not pull her paw away from my approaching hand touch, I then started holding one paw one second and kept doing that over and over with lots of praise and lots of yummy treats.Then, one second hold were comfortable enough for Palette, I held her paw for a little longer and praised her and repeated over and over again.
At 3-4 months old age,we enrolled her to puppy training class.Our trainer told about importance about nail clipping. We learned that we need to clip her nail when we start hearing clicking sound on floor. That is the sign to tell us we need to clip nails. If nail were not clipped too long, its nerve and quick (pink part in the nail) gets longer and when dogs stand on foot with long nail, the single nail would point sideways rather than pointing to straight down and it hurts dogs.
So,while we were working on paw-touching, we took Palette to groomers place for actual nail clippings. With teeth brushing, I can get away with just let her lick the tooth paste and start actual teeth brushing later but, with nail clipping, nail gets longer,longer if you kept them untouched and not good for them. So,we took Palette to groomer while training with me.
And when she was okay with longer paw hold, I started touching her nail with clipper. Just touch the nail, click the clicker (Palette is clicker trained), give treats. When she started to not making any flinch when I touch her nail with clipper,I started clipping her nails on my own.
When dogs are not getting used to paws being touched,chances are, they would probably wiggles or try to nip your hands to release themselves from uncomfortable situation. When that happens,I would imagine that many people would try hard to hold dogs to keep them stay still for nail clipping whether the dogs are comfortable during the situation or not, and maybe you might be shouting "no,no,no".
And, often times, they would try to clip all nails at once, right on the spot. I think that the specific way actually make dogs feel more frightened, stressed, and not comfortable and see it as negative events, and I can imagine that next time you go pick up the nail clipper, as soon as your dogs see you moving towards the grooming box or see the nail clipper in your hands, they might go hide under the bed to avoid the unhappy events. That would not working for anybody's favor; for you or your dogs.
First couple of times on Palette's nail clipping,I tried putting her on back against my body,supporting her from behind and,its posture was, for me, easy to handle, but later I found out that she does better and looks more relaxed if she were kept on sit position or down and I now sit next to her and hold paw when I do clipping.
Clipping nail does not have to be all nail done in one time. First couple of times,I just clipped one nail, praised her very big following yummy treats and nice lovable massage.What dogs can resist
I usually start the nail clipping after letting her sniff the tool and she gets ready. Then, I prepare yummy special treats bag (I usually put in front of her) . Her eyes stay on the treat bag, and stay still and,I quickly clip one nail and soon I release her paw and praise her and yummy treat bag gets open for her.
There are many types of clippers on the market but I like scissor style clipper. My favorite is orange handled clipper from Miller's. Handle is steady and feel good in my hands and it clips well. I think you may feel a little nervous when you clip nail first and may clip slowly but point is, clip the nail in quick motion. Slow clip may make dogs feel uncomfortable.
Palette's favorite nail clipper..
Palette's nail is white and easy to spot her quick in the nail. But if you have a dog with black nail, it maybe safer to use dremel rather than clipper to avoid clipping nail too short enough to cut their quick.
Dremel I use for Palette's nail.. She seems like Dremel better than nail clipper..
I used to clip just 1 nail at a time when she was puppy but now,I can do all paws at once. When I was clipping one nail at a time or two nails etc.. each nail clip came with 1 yummy treat so, she tolerate the clipping nail time well. I wanted the treat for nail clipping very very very special for her, the nail clipping treat were used only when nail clipping is done and she got none at her favorite regular training time.
When it comes to nail clipping topics, you may find 2 types of clipping tools. One is, clipper, and the other is dremel. I like using dremel on her nail because dremel does not make nail with rough edge, rather smooth. Dremel also does not splinter nail.
I am dreaming of her enjoying this Dremel time, enough to stay lie down on her side, fall asleep.. For now, she is okay with dremel but not to that "fall asleep" part. The dremel I use is not the one specifically made for pets.
I worked with Palette to let her used to dremel; start with touch with dremel (off), hold paws and touch nail with dremel (off), turn the dremel on and touch one nail and do just one nail...
Step by step, baby step by baby step, I worked with her on this and, woo hoo, we can now do all paws with dremel (When I was working on getting her used to Dremel and just dremel one nail, other nails were clipped with clipper) . I am glad for her and it seems she does better with dremel rather than clipper. It took time for us to come to this point, though.
Very very first time when I tried touching her nail with dremel (off), she did not like her nail touched with dremel but now, she never step back or flinch or try pull her paw away from me.
When I do daily training with her, since she knows the command "touch"; touching items with paw, I sometimes play "Touch dremel game". It just that I place the dremel on floor a bit close to her and say "touch dremel" and she goes excitedly toward dremel and touch it with one paw and she hears the click of the clicker and she gets treats and I place it to a bit further and say the same and she goes touch. I sometimes hide the dremel and when she found the dremel, I give her special treats to trade.What I am trying to do with her is to let her connect dremel with fun game,and yummy treats.
Nail clipping is important for your dog and, it is also important to cut the fur in between the paw. If the fur between the paws gets longer, it can make slippery on floor due to no traction on back of their paws and it is better to be trimmed at regular basis.
Fur between the paw is trimmed..
With paw fur trim, I go to groomers once in a while, and ask them to do the dremel on her nails too to keep the nail as short as it should be.I do Palette's nail regular bases but it is nice to keep them being checked once in a while.
When we go to groomers, we do not go to the grooming area right away. I usually let Palette guide our way and trot around wherever she wants to go because it is her place, and want it to be fun place for her and the place where she looks forward to go to. So, she usually sniff every ail possible, and meet new people, getting lots of petting from them, meet new dogs, and after some fun, we take her to groomers' area.
Letting your dogs walk around the area first and then going to the place where you and your dogs should be such as dog training class is also good. When Palette was in puppy training class, we arrived at the class location at least 15-20 minutes earlier and let her walk around, sniff as much as she wanted to and then we went to class area and took puppy training class.
By the way, it is also important to make the styptic powder ready for just in case you cut their nail too short, cut the quick and cause bleeding. Quick is pink part in their nail and when you accidentally cut them, they bleed. If you accidentally cut the quick and caused bleeding, dip the nail into styptic powder to stop the bleeding.
In a pinch, use flour, or corn starch. It does not have pain blocker but in a pinch,it would work. If bleeding happened and needed to use styptic powder, keep your dog from walking / licking it for a while.
How you can get your dogs not to bite the brush when you like to brush them?
Letting dogs to get used to be brushed from early age is important too. Let them sniff the tool, let them sit, start with just one touch on back with brush and praise, give treats. Then, as your dogs look more relaxed, one stroke with brush,praise, give treats, and more strokes with brush for one small treats and eventually, no treats would be needed. They would enjoy the time of being brushed.
Palette fell asleep after being brushed with soft brush,comb, and Furminator..
I remember Palette loved to bite at the head of brush when she was puppy. One touch with brush seemed to make her think " What was that? What touched me?" but as days passes by, she got better and when I show her brush, she comes trotting to me with tongue hanging out and sit facing out so that I can brush her back.
Brushing is, not only making the fur glossy but also good to spread around the natural oil in skin, and brushing makes good blood circulation, and take tangled hair or dead hair off (less shedding) and..it keeps flea at bay.Using Flea comb with regular blush is great. I usually use soft blush,flea comb and furminator. Furminator is expensive side grooming brush but,it works great. It removes dead hair off from your dogs and you find less fur on your furniture. Plus, Palette enjoy her Furminator time!
Grooming is not chore time but great time to have bonding time with your dog. So,take a time and enjoy bonding with your dog! At first, goal to achieve may look further away from the situation you are in, but by doing baby step by baby step, it can be achieved. Just relax, go step by step with baby step, and take a time. You do not need to rushed to the goal all at once.
It is also good to teach kids what areas are dogs' sensitive spots and learn to not to pull dogs tail or step on their paws etc. And at the same time, it is also good to teach them not to hug the dogs or pet on the head if you do not know how the dogs would handle all those physical contacts from strangers especially for time when kids ask if it is ok to pet dogs encountered on your walk.
Anyone with dogs that have black nails has tips on how to clip nails?
Do you use dremel? Clipper? Both?
Any of you have tried triple doggy tooth brush for your dogs?
Palette loves to get attention, loves to be pet and she cannot get enough of petting no matter however long we were petting her. Once she realized we stopped petting, she groans and adjust herself and come closer, offer her tummy for good tummy rubs. When we pet her slow strokes, within 3 seconds,here comes her big yawn and narrows her eyes and falls asleep. When we pet her faster strokes, she pants with her tongue hanging out, leaves wet spot on her doggy bed.
Tummy rubs,please!
Dogs love getting attention from you and enjoy being pet. Whenever I sit down on floor, Palette never miss her chance to be pet by me. She comes trot to next to me,lie down on her side, ready to be pet.
Have you wonder why dogs suddenly snaps at you while they were looking so calmed and relaxed when you or kids petting them?
Dogs, just like human, have sensitive spots. For human, spots will be arm pits, back of foot. For certain period of times, you probably can endure touching,poking and all that but if it lasts long, you would become uncomfortable and would tell people to stop tickling you. Same thing for dogs. If dogs were touched,pulled,hold, poked around their sensitive areas, they too become uncomfortable and as a result, most likely growl with low tone to warn you, then snap at you to tell you to stop touching the area.
Dogs have sensitive areas just like us, but they cannot get away with being untouched. Certain spots such as muzzle area (for teeth cleaning) , paws (for nail trimming) etc need to be handled by you, by groomer, by vet etc for various reasons.
What can you do to let them feel relaxed while such sensitive areas are handled?
Many dogs love to be pet and, they feel relaxed when you are petting them. You too would feel calm, and relaxed when you are petting them. Whenever you are petting them, keep treats near you, and even if you had no reasons to exam / touch those sensitive areas, touch them short period of time (start with very very short second), praise them big, give them treats. Start with one touch one small lentil sized treats.
As a puppy, I touched Palette's paws, muzzle, zillions of times.
How you can get your dogs used to be handled around muzzle for teeth brushing?
When I am petting her, I just pretend to look her teeth a second or two and praised her big and gave her treats. So, after 4 years living with me, she stays lie down on her side when I look her teeth, and she yawn, and careless about what I do. I do not look up her teeth as much as I used to, but I touch her muzzle occasionally. I brush Palette's teeth daily and she usually stay down position while I brush her teeth.
I did not start actual teeth brushing until she feels comfortable being handled muzzle. All I did while I was working on getting her used to have her muzzle handled relaxed was just one things.
* putting doggy tooth paste onto my finger, let her lick it off
Then, when she got excited enough for the tooth paste, I put tooth paste onto cloth and massage the teeth with the tooth paste cloth. When she could handled cloth massaging well, I bought a soft baby tooth brush, and started using it to brush her teeth.
To brush her coat with comb or brush her teeth with teeth brush, or to clip her nail, I never start my business right away. I let her sit, let her sniff at tool, and when she is calm enough, then, I start my business. I always go with her pace, not mine.
So, to brush her teeth, first thing I do is to show the tooth brush and she usually trot to me and wait with down position for me to put the tooth paste onto her brush. Then, I brush her teeth, then finish it with short petting.
My favorite tooth paste is CET tooth paste. It is double enzyme tooth paste and it seems working great for her white teeth. She loves seafood flavor best, but there are beef,poultry,malt, mint flavor. However, Palette hates mint one. She goes hide. So, I could not use mint/vanilla tooth paste for her. I do not know what makes her go hide with the particular flavor but,it never be found at our house any more. You can find them at local vet clinic office. Our local vet sells at their office. I had a chat with a couple of vet receptionists before about the tooth paste and about Palette's odd behavior for mint flavored toothpaste. They said their dogs too seem not liking the mint flavor one. They did not say their dogs go hide like Palette though.
Palette's Favorite toothpaste.She loves seafood flavor best..
*** Don't Use the human toothpaste to brush your dogs' teeth***
Recently, I found an interesting doggy toothbrush. It is called "triple toothbrush"; toothbrush head has brush from 3 sides; bottom, and both sides. Bellow is the picture of Triple toothbrush. I think it is designed to be able to brush dog teeth front,back at the same time.
Triple Toothbrush..
I got it to try out for Palette and see if it were any better than regular toothbrush I use for her,but I am not so excited about the new toothbrush.
One thing that bothers me is that, to use this toothbrush, bottom brush head has to stay bottom all the time so, that means handle has to stay bottom all the time to get it effective to use it. And, I cannot know for sure if side brushes are really brushing teeth as good as regular toothbrush can. This brush maybe works fine for front teeth (up and bottom) but not so sure about when you want to brush molars (teeth on sides).
So, after a couple of tries, I have decided I like the regular toothbrush better after all, and backed to using baby toothbrush. I liked the feel of the grip on handle and idea itself but, I personally prefer the regular toothbrush and not using the Triple Toothbrush since then.
How you can get your dogs used to be handled around paws for clipping nails?
When we went to vet check-up when she was still puppy,vet tech suggested me to handle her paw a lot and let her used to be touched. It works for your favor when you want to clip dog's nail or want to check out wound on paws.
So, just like letting dogs get used to be handled their muzzle for brushing their teeth, I touched her paws a lot and praised her,gave her treats.
For paw, I just touched her paw a little and then,if she were okay,meaning if she did not pull her paw away from my approaching hand touch, I then started holding one paw one second and kept doing that over and over with lots of praise and lots of yummy treats.Then, one second hold were comfortable enough for Palette, I held her paw for a little longer and praised her and repeated over and over again.
At 3-4 months old age,we enrolled her to puppy training class.Our trainer told about importance about nail clipping. We learned that we need to clip her nail when we start hearing clicking sound on floor. That is the sign to tell us we need to clip nails. If nail were not clipped too long, its nerve and quick (pink part in the nail) gets longer and when dogs stand on foot with long nail, the single nail would point sideways rather than pointing to straight down and it hurts dogs.
So,while we were working on paw-touching, we took Palette to groomers place for actual nail clippings. With teeth brushing, I can get away with just let her lick the tooth paste and start actual teeth brushing later but, with nail clipping, nail gets longer,longer if you kept them untouched and not good for them. So,we took Palette to groomer while training with me.
And when she was okay with longer paw hold, I started touching her nail with clipper. Just touch the nail, click the clicker (Palette is clicker trained), give treats. When she started to not making any flinch when I touch her nail with clipper,I started clipping her nails on my own.
When dogs are not getting used to paws being touched,chances are, they would probably wiggles or try to nip your hands to release themselves from uncomfortable situation. When that happens,I would imagine that many people would try hard to hold dogs to keep them stay still for nail clipping whether the dogs are comfortable during the situation or not, and maybe you might be shouting "no,no,no".
And, often times, they would try to clip all nails at once, right on the spot. I think that the specific way actually make dogs feel more frightened, stressed, and not comfortable and see it as negative events, and I can imagine that next time you go pick up the nail clipper, as soon as your dogs see you moving towards the grooming box or see the nail clipper in your hands, they might go hide under the bed to avoid the unhappy events. That would not working for anybody's favor; for you or your dogs.
First couple of times on Palette's nail clipping,I tried putting her on back against my body,supporting her from behind and,its posture was, for me, easy to handle, but later I found out that she does better and looks more relaxed if she were kept on sit position or down and I now sit next to her and hold paw when I do clipping.
Clipping nail does not have to be all nail done in one time. First couple of times,I just clipped one nail, praised her very big following yummy treats and nice lovable massage.What dogs can resist
I usually start the nail clipping after letting her sniff the tool and she gets ready. Then, I prepare yummy special treats bag (I usually put in front of her) . Her eyes stay on the treat bag, and stay still and,I quickly clip one nail and soon I release her paw and praise her and yummy treat bag gets open for her.
There are many types of clippers on the market but I like scissor style clipper. My favorite is orange handled clipper from Miller's. Handle is steady and feel good in my hands and it clips well. I think you may feel a little nervous when you clip nail first and may clip slowly but point is, clip the nail in quick motion. Slow clip may make dogs feel uncomfortable.
Palette's favorite nail clipper..
Palette's nail is white and easy to spot her quick in the nail. But if you have a dog with black nail, it maybe safer to use dremel rather than clipper to avoid clipping nail too short enough to cut their quick.
Dremel I use for Palette's nail.. She seems like Dremel better than nail clipper..
I used to clip just 1 nail at a time when she was puppy but now,I can do all paws at once. When I was clipping one nail at a time or two nails etc.. each nail clip came with 1 yummy treat so, she tolerate the clipping nail time well. I wanted the treat for nail clipping very very very special for her, the nail clipping treat were used only when nail clipping is done and she got none at her favorite regular training time.
When it comes to nail clipping topics, you may find 2 types of clipping tools. One is, clipper, and the other is dremel. I like using dremel on her nail because dremel does not make nail with rough edge, rather smooth. Dremel also does not splinter nail.
I am dreaming of her enjoying this Dremel time, enough to stay lie down on her side, fall asleep.. For now, she is okay with dremel but not to that "fall asleep" part. The dremel I use is not the one specifically made for pets.
I worked with Palette to let her used to dremel; start with touch with dremel (off), hold paws and touch nail with dremel (off), turn the dremel on and touch one nail and do just one nail...
Step by step, baby step by baby step, I worked with her on this and, woo hoo, we can now do all paws with dremel (When I was working on getting her used to Dremel and just dremel one nail, other nails were clipped with clipper) . I am glad for her and it seems she does better with dremel rather than clipper. It took time for us to come to this point, though.
Very very first time when I tried touching her nail with dremel (off), she did not like her nail touched with dremel but now, she never step back or flinch or try pull her paw away from me.
When I do daily training with her, since she knows the command "touch"; touching items with paw, I sometimes play "Touch dremel game". It just that I place the dremel on floor a bit close to her and say "touch dremel" and she goes excitedly toward dremel and touch it with one paw and she hears the click of the clicker and she gets treats and I place it to a bit further and say the same and she goes touch. I sometimes hide the dremel and when she found the dremel, I give her special treats to trade.What I am trying to do with her is to let her connect dremel with fun game,and yummy treats.
Nail clipping is important for your dog and, it is also important to cut the fur in between the paw. If the fur between the paws gets longer, it can make slippery on floor due to no traction on back of their paws and it is better to be trimmed at regular basis.
Fur between the paw is trimmed..
With paw fur trim, I go to groomers once in a while, and ask them to do the dremel on her nails too to keep the nail as short as it should be.I do Palette's nail regular bases but it is nice to keep them being checked once in a while.
When we go to groomers, we do not go to the grooming area right away. I usually let Palette guide our way and trot around wherever she wants to go because it is her place, and want it to be fun place for her and the place where she looks forward to go to. So, she usually sniff every ail possible, and meet new people, getting lots of petting from them, meet new dogs, and after some fun, we take her to groomers' area.
Letting your dogs walk around the area first and then going to the place where you and your dogs should be such as dog training class is also good. When Palette was in puppy training class, we arrived at the class location at least 15-20 minutes earlier and let her walk around, sniff as much as she wanted to and then we went to class area and took puppy training class.
By the way, it is also important to make the styptic powder ready for just in case you cut their nail too short, cut the quick and cause bleeding. Quick is pink part in their nail and when you accidentally cut them, they bleed. If you accidentally cut the quick and caused bleeding, dip the nail into styptic powder to stop the bleeding.
In a pinch, use flour, or corn starch. It does not have pain blocker but in a pinch,it would work. If bleeding happened and needed to use styptic powder, keep your dog from walking / licking it for a while.
How you can get your dogs not to bite the brush when you like to brush them?
Letting dogs to get used to be brushed from early age is important too. Let them sniff the tool, let them sit, start with just one touch on back with brush and praise, give treats. Then, as your dogs look more relaxed, one stroke with brush,praise, give treats, and more strokes with brush for one small treats and eventually, no treats would be needed. They would enjoy the time of being brushed.
Palette fell asleep after being brushed with soft brush,comb, and Furminator..
I remember Palette loved to bite at the head of brush when she was puppy. One touch with brush seemed to make her think " What was that? What touched me?" but as days passes by, she got better and when I show her brush, she comes trotting to me with tongue hanging out and sit facing out so that I can brush her back.
Brushing is, not only making the fur glossy but also good to spread around the natural oil in skin, and brushing makes good blood circulation, and take tangled hair or dead hair off (less shedding) and..it keeps flea at bay.Using Flea comb with regular blush is great. I usually use soft blush,flea comb and furminator. Furminator is expensive side grooming brush but,it works great. It removes dead hair off from your dogs and you find less fur on your furniture. Plus, Palette enjoy her Furminator time!
Grooming is not chore time but great time to have bonding time with your dog. So,take a time and enjoy bonding with your dog! At first, goal to achieve may look further away from the situation you are in, but by doing baby step by baby step, it can be achieved. Just relax, go step by step with baby step, and take a time. You do not need to rushed to the goal all at once.
It is also good to teach kids what areas are dogs' sensitive spots and learn to not to pull dogs tail or step on their paws etc. And at the same time, it is also good to teach them not to hug the dogs or pet on the head if you do not know how the dogs would handle all those physical contacts from strangers especially for time when kids ask if it is ok to pet dogs encountered on your walk.
Anyone with dogs that have black nails has tips on how to clip nails?
Do you use dremel? Clipper? Both?
Any of you have tried triple doggy tooth brush for your dogs?
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