Dog Grooming Tips - How to Blow Dry Your Dog's Hair

Dog Grooming Tips - How to Blow Dry Your Dog's Hair - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.

You want to make sure you have three things, you want to make sure you have a conditioning spray to help detangle, you want to have a brush that has a small gauge wire on it, so it is not too coarse up against your dog's skin, these are very nice brushes that will last forever. I love these brushes and I do sell them here at the Dirty Dog. The other thing, is you want to make sure once again that your dog is anchored somewhere they cannot get away from you because, typically you are going to need to place your dog up from on a surface, so that is its ergonomically correct for you.

So let us get started here Gigi. Gigi has already had conditioning sprays placed on her hair after the bath, you are going to brush on one area until it is completely dry and then move to the next spot. Literally gravitating through your dog's body, please do not forget your dog has a butt, has armpits, ears and a tail, so you really want to create a system in doing this, just like when you brush your teeth. Continue spraying the coat with the conditioner as you move up. It will help in making it more comfortable experience for your path and an easier task for yourself. With the inside of the leg if you lift up one leg or, whole dog, half the dog with this one, and just brush. Never lift your dog's legs in a movement that is not natural for them, your dog's legs your back legs cannot go up like this they can go back like this, your dog's back legs cannot go up front this way, your dog's front legs can go up like this or back like this, never out to the sides.

So it is also important that you do not put a lot of pressure behind your brush, remember you are brushing hair, you are not slicing meat, so be gentle about it, there are certain areas that are very sensitive. Please pay attention to how I am holding my dogs legs to make him go where I need for them to go, there is areas that are very sensitive, one of the most sensitive areas I found on dogs is right here, right where the legs meet their chest, they really do not care for that, the armpits, the back of the neck is very sensitive to dogs just like us. Once again, if you are not sure what it is going to feel like, please apply it to yourself always brushing with the direction that the coat is growing at, you do not want to lift up those layers of skin.

When you brush the dog's ears you want to make sure that the hand that is holding the dogs ear is so that it is basically cautioning or protecting the ear, it can easily tear the ear leather or just upset your dog. There again it is a problem area where dogs get mad, there is a lot of friction area here and it is sensitive, you want to be gentle, good girl, if you find yourself brushing over an area way too many times and the skin starts becoming red, stop what you are doing is brush burn. You do not want to do that, that will lead to hotspots another problem, and just an unhappy dog.

One of the way to test your job and the work that you are doing is by running a comb through your dog, once you finished brushing them, in this way you can find tangles and that way when you go to the groomer to actually have their haircut, you would not hear that dreaded statement, I have to shave your dog today. And as you can see Gigi needs to get the hair out of her eyes badly.