DOG GROMMING IS ESSENTIAL FOR

HIM, YOU AND

  YOU’RE ENVIROMENT

The skin is the anatomical and physiological barrier between the dog’s body and the environment. It protects your pooches from physical trauma, chemical insult & microbiological injuries. This body coat (skin) of your dog is the mirror of his health.The skin of you pooch is covered with hair. Hairs are flexible, elastic horny threads. The hair coat of dog may be divided as normal coat, short coat and long coat depending on the texture and total hair length. Hairs never grow continuously like claws or nails; hairs usually grow in a cycle. Each cycle consists of growing phase known as anagenic phase known as Telogenic phase, when the hair is retained in the follicle as dead and subsequently lost. In general, hair grows only 0.04 to 0.18mm (approx) per day.

It is desirable to have good and shiny coat on the body of the dog. A shining body coat is the first beauty of your pooches. The puppy coat is soft and sometimes wooly appearance. Puppies generally shed their coats when they are 9-10 months of age. The puppies born in winter may shed their coat in spring. Even the color of the coat may also be changed while that duration. 

Adult dogs change their coat once in a year. Now these hairs usually create problem when these fall on carpet, chairs, clothes and floors. In order to minimize the trouble the dog should be well groomed, specially at the time of shedding. Daily brushing is the good practice. This keeps the dogs coat shining and healthy. Some dogs, particularly white coated ones may shed their coats to a certain extent all through the year. In such cases, use of medicated shampoo (Selenium Shampoo), careful grooming and multivitamin tablets prescribed by your vet may alleviate the problem.Brushing and grooming will give your pooches a sense of well being. Besides, it helps to maintain a clean environment around you. A groom kit should include brushes, comb, rake, shear, thinning shear, electric clipper, stripping comb, a good quality medicated shinning lotion or cream prescribed by your Vet and a towel.

First apply brush to remove the external dirt then comb it to stimulate the cutaneous circulation. Then polish the coat with shinning lotion and towel for shining the coat.  All dogs should be washed to keep the skin coat clean, to remove his odor and to avoid skin problems. Dog should be washed once or twice in a week in summer and on every two weeks or three weeks in winter. The water should be luke warm about 85 degree/Fahrenheit. Water should be poured on the body until the coat is wet. Preferably sulphur contain soap should be used. The soap or shampoo s should be rubbed thoroughly over the coat to form lather all over the body, after that dog should be thoroughly rinsed and washed with clean water. Finally, it should be dried up with a clean dry towel and kept in a warm place to make the body dry. No water should enter the ear canal, to avoid it ears may be plugged in with the cotton plug while bath. Regular attention and grooming of pooch will change the enviroment and mood of both yours and your pooches.

Before Grooming :-  

 

 Note:

A dog should not be bathed every day since it may remove natural oils and thus make the skin coat dull.

Human soaps which contain carbolic acid should not be used on dogs coat it can be harmful for his coat.

After Grooming :-

Story source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_grooming

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