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Dog grooming should be a serious part of your dog care regimen as a responsible owner. The right grooming helps your dog both look good. Grooming embodies several different areas. Here we take a glance at the necessary of dog grooming.

The most vital side of grooming your dog is properly brushing its hair. Just like you may have a lot of issues if you don’t comb your hair for long, the dog will also have similar problems. With steady brushing, the hair of your dog remain well sorted and untangled and look fresh and clean.

It must be noted that frequency of brushing the hair of your dog should be decided for best results. Brushing the hair of your dog every day is a bad idea. It will be a complete waste of your time. Based on the length of the coat of your dog you can brush on alternate days or maybe stretch the period for as much as five days.

Bathing your dog is also an essential part of grooming. A bath is guarantees that your dog is both clean and well groomed. Showering consistently doesn’t simply keep your dog’ coat clean but also gets rid of a bacteria or germ sticking to his coat. A number of these bacteria or germs could pose a threat to the dog’s health if left unchecked and cause diseases and other illness.

Again, the frequency of your dog’s bath relies on the kind of the dog. While almost all of the dogs can do with one bath in a month if kept clean, some exceptions must be considered. The biggest exception of course is that your dog had gone out and has come back all soiled. Dogs need a bath with halfhearted water so watch out about the temperature. And , make sure that you get the proper dog shampoo for bath.

Nail trimming is also a part of dog grooming. Dogs with longer nails are usually more susceptible to illnesses of diverse kind then those with shorter nails. This is as without regular trimming the nails could attract dirt or germs making your dog more inclined to sicknesses.

Now, about nail clipping you’ve got to realize a critical thing. There’s a likelihood that your dog may not ‘agree’ to the exercise. If you have trained it about clipping part since it was just a puppy, the picture could be favorable. Grown up dogs are a different story. Best path is to give some sedatives to dog before you go about clipping its nails.

A well groomed dog truly becomes its owner’s pride.

Dog grooming should be a serious part of your dog care regimen as a responsible owner. The right grooming helps your dog both look good. Grooming embodies a few different areas. Here we have got a look at the essential of dog grooming.

One of the first things to do to promise your dog is groomed properly is to brush his/her hair. Not brushing your dog’s hair regularly enough could lead to entangled fur which in turn could finish up damaging the dog’s coat. Regular brushing can help to stop that and maintain the coat.

You shouldn’t overdo the brushing my doing so every day. How often your brush your dog’s hair will depend entirely on the length of the coat. Dogs with longer hair often need brushing more continually in comparison with those with shorter hair.

Another significant part of correct dog grooming is a bath. All your cleaning and grooming efforts can only be of use if you give your dog a bath. With a bath, the coat and skin of your dog become clean. Any dust or bacteria get washed away. This implies the dog remains healthy.

You do not have to get your dog a daily bath. Most dogs do well with an once per month bath. But, if your dog has fouled himself then bathing him becomes more than important. There are certain things that you need to take note of when showering your dog. This include the temperature of the water. Make sure that the water is neither too hot nor too cold. Also, make sure that you are using quality dog shampoos for your pet.

Nail trimming is also a part of dog grooming. Dogs with longer nails are sometimes more susceptible to illnesses of various kind then those with shorter nails. This is because without regular trimming the nails could attract dust or germs making your dog more inclined to infections.

Now, about nail clipping you have to realize a very important thing. There is a chance that your dog might not ‘agree’ to the exercise. If you have trained it about clipping part since it was simply a puppy, the picture could be favorable. Grown up dogs are a different story. Best path is to give some sedatives to dog before you go about clipping its nails.

You do not want your pet to be a social humiliation for you. Thus, it is important that you follow these prerequisites of dog grooming and make your pet appear and feel good.

Our Australian Shepherd, Mittsy, was pretty much a normal puppy as far as chewing on things goes. She did the shoe thing and the wooden legs on our kitchen chairs. The puppy chewing phase lasted until she was about 15 months old.

Even after the teething phase wore off, she would always find something new to chew on. We were only able to control what she had available to her by using pet gates to limit her access.

I have to believe that Mittsy’s stomach was stronger than most dogs, because many of the things that she wolfed down are considered very dangerous to the health of a dog.

We were terrified for her the first time this happened, and it has happened several times since then. On her first Easter weekend with us, she managed to find our children’s cache of left over chocolate Easter eggs. Mittsy devoured as many as she could, wrapper and all.

The stomach pains she would experience would last about a day and then she would be back on the hunt to see if there was anymore of this glorious food to be found.

These Easter delights were obviously quite seasonal, but with a house full of teen aged daughters, Mittsy’s favorite staple food was readily available 365 days a year. What would that be you ask? Why lipstick of course, and the redder the lipstick the better she liked it.

Have you ever tried to remove red lipstick from a beige carpet. Well in our house it happened so frequently that we became experts at it. The household pet gate never seemed to be enough of a deterent, because our daughters would leave their lipstick all over the house. Easy pickings for Mittsy.

Our biggest surprise however, was yet to come.

Our family was invited to spend a week-end at a friend’s cottage one year, dog included. This cottage was fairly remote and had several acres of bush land around it, so it was a very special outing for all of us. Fortunately for Mittsy there would be other dogs there to play with.

As usual, the weekend was a smashing success with beautiful sunny days, warm water and great company. Unfortunately it came time to start packing up for home. I guess the act of packing was some sort of sign to Mittsy that she had better feed up for the long trip home.

Mittsy’s hunt started indoors, and she somehow managed to track down a french loaf that had been set aside for the parting meal that evening. She managed to eat the whole 18 inch loaf of bread without being noticed by anyone, but her feast was not yet finished. That was just the appetizer.  

Believe it or not, I had gone into the cottage looking for a frisbee when something caught my eye out of the cottage’s back window. There was Mittsy chewing on anything she could find in our friend’s compost heap …yuck.

I managed to chase her away from her compost delight, but within half an hour or so, Mittsy became very ill. Every breath from her mouth was steaming in the air, even though it was a 90 degree day.

It would be four hours before we got back to civilization, and we thought by starting the trek as soon as possible, we could get Mittsy to a vet before nightfall. We finsihed packing the car, said our goodbyes and headed out.

I’m sure you think you can imagine what our trip home was like, but I really doubt that you could. Mittsy was sick several times, and each time the smell was overwhelming. In order to keep ourselves and the children from being sick as well, we would have to stop the car, get out and breathe some fresh air, work up some courage to get back into the car, and head out for the next stretch.

I guess she did a good job purging herself, because by the time we got home, Mittsy was raring to go and was running around our yard looking for something to play with, or eat.

We kept an eye on her that night and throughout the next day, but other than a slight loss of appetite she seemed quite normal. She wanted lots of fresh water, and we made sure that her bowl was full. If she could speak, I’m sure that she would brag about having a cast iron stomach. It took the rest of us much longer to recuperate.