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4 Easy Westie Grooming Tips for Home

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Westie Grooming Tips

The West Highland White Terrier is a smart, friendly and engaging dog whose lineage dates back to the early 1900s. Owners of this dog breed enjoy impressive intelligence in their pet, but are faced with specific and often daunting challenges when it comes to keeping their Westie’s appearance up to par.

So let’s look at 4 easy Westie Grooming tips along with some advice on how to groom a Westie at home.

Due to it’s particularly coarse double coat of white fur, specialized and routine care is required in order to keep this dog looking its best.

This post provides tips to help with keeping your Westie looking his best, along with some very useful Westie grooming tools.

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Best Dog Clippers for Schnauzers & Miniature Schnauzer Haircuts

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Miniature Schnauzer Haircuts

Although Schnauzers are popular and endearing, their upkeep and maintenance is a lot more time consuming than some other dog breeds and it keeps owners and professional groomers alike constantly on their toes.

Their classic appearance is sure to melt the heart of any owner while the care behind that appearance requires more work than some may expect.

As well as covering grooming clippers suitable for Schnauzers, I have also included some videos that demonstrate each of the haircut styles.

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5 Deshedding Tools for Dog Breeds That Shed Excessively

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Low Shedding Dogs

If you are an animal lover and pets are a part of your life, you know that shedding comes with the territory. You might already own some deshedding tools. On the other hand, you might still be looking for solutions. Let’s look at a few tools and practices that could help.

We love our pets but it can be frustrating constantly chasing rolling balls of fur around the house. Clusters of fallen hair can accumulate in corners and under furniture. This can be totally annoying unless you have a really good vacuum for pet hair and even then, it can be a never-ending chore.

Trying to get out of the house with dark colored clothing, that isn’t covered in dog hair, can seem like an impossible task.

Dog hair just seems to drop everywhere. However, if you have a basic understanding of shedding, frustrations can be significantly reduced. This is particularly so if you have some good deshedding tools.

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Best Dog Brushes and Deshedding Tools

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Deshedding Tools for Dogs

The degree of shedding that you can expect from your dog will vary from breed to breed as well as from season to season. And of course, this does have something to do with whether you have a short haired dog or a long-haired dog, a single or a double-coated dog. But there are many top brushing tools for dogs that can make for a much cleaner home.

The amount of hair on your dog doesn’t always go hand in hand with the amount of shedding you can expect. Some short hair dogs can surprise you with how much they shed. I can speak from experience. Our Jack Russell used to shed like crazy.

Regardless of the extent of shedding that you are experiencing from your dog, it is something that you will want to manage correctly, both so that your dog is comfortable and so that your house, not to mention your clothes, can be kept cleaner.

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