Tagged with 'tips & Tricks'

Cleaning Your Stainless-Steel Grooming Tub

Stainless steel grooming tubs are wonderfully useful, sturdy, and easy to keep clean. With just moments of effort at the end of each day, you can keep your stainless steel tub looking it's beautiful best.

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Did you know?

Incorporating time-tested grooming tips like these can save you time, energy, and maybe even frustration as you navigate your busy workday. Here are a few random grooming tips to try. They may help you groom more quickly and efficiently!

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4 Keys to Successful Pet Handling

If you are a long-time pet professional, you’ve probably mastered this topic. If you are fresh to the industry, you are probably struggling with it.
How do you handle the dog that does not want to cooperate with the grooming procedure?

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Ear Trimming Tricks

Have you ever had the experience of trimming the ears on a drop-eared dog only to find that you simply can’t manage to get them even? Either one ear is shorter than the other, or you keep finding straggly pieces that you missed on one or both ears. It can be frustrating and sometimes end up with the pet having far shorter ears than you had initially planned as you trim one, then the other, in an attempt to get things perfectly matching.

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Hairy Eyeballs

Mrs. M. was a challenging customer, no doubt about it. She was the human on the end of the leash of Precious, an adorable little Shih Tzu. Mrs. M. started every conversation with those most dreaded two words, "Last time." "Last time she was too short," or "Last time she was too long," or "Last time you didn't wash her, did you?" The flavor and tone of the "last time" complaints changed regularly. At one point, her regular complaint was, "Last time Precious got a terrible eye infection after you groomed her." Now, this alarmed me!

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Photo Tips!

Cellular phones with built-in cameras have made taking pictures of the pets we groom easy and convenient. Groomers can take quick snapshots of pets on the grooming table or even set up a dedicated space with backdrops to take more formal portraits of pets. Here are some tips to help you make the most of your photo sessions.

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Tips to Improve your Scissorwork

Scissorwork is an important skill to master if you're a professional groomer! Here are some tips to help you develop and master the skill.

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Handy Hacks for the Pro Groomer

A creative, novel, or unusual approach to solving a problem, or a tool used in an unexpected way, is often called a “hack.” Here is a list of some of my favorite grooming hacks.

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Tool Organizing Tips

I am a self-confessed tool junkie. If I see a grooming tool that I don’t own and think would be useful, I’ll buy it. Sometimes the purchase is a win, other times a dud. Then there is the grey zone, a great tool for a few specific tasks but not something I will use on most pets. It turns out I have quite a few of those grey zone tools...

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Carding for Beginners

Picture this scenario… you are clipping a pet Spaniel with a thick coat, and you realize that you have unwittingly created what looks for all the world like a corduroy jacket on that pup. Usually, it’s not the fault of the blade, the clipper, or even your clipping technique. The problem is that the dog has a thick undercoat.

So, what’s a groomer to do? One choice is to clip the dog shorter, but that is not the best plan. Instead, spend a little time removing that undercoat. This will enable you to achieve a lovely, smooth clip while improving the dog’s skin health at the same time.

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