Dog Grooming

Get tips on the basics of grooming your dog at home.

How to Cut Dog Hair at Home – How to Use Dog Clippers

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For many pet owners, with long-haired breeds, clipping dog hair is an ongoing, important part of the grooming process. Cutting your dog’s hair is definitely not an easy task, if you decide to do it yourself.

Learning how to groom a dog at home would definitely involve managing the right kind of clipping for your particular dog breed.

This article provides, tips, steps, tool suggestions and a video that shows you how to groom a dog with clippers. It covers the clipping basics on how to groom your dog at home.

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Why Do Dogs Get Fleas – How to Treat & Prevent Infestation

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Flea Protection

At some point or another every dog owner will unfortunately experience an invasion of fleas, burrowing down into their pet’s coat and possibly taking up residence in this new host. It can be a very difficult task to rid your home of these very unwelcome jumping, biting insects which can pose some serious health risks for your dog.

Seresto Small Dog Vet-Recommended Flea & Tick Treatment & Prevention Collar for Dogs Under 18 lbs. | 2-Pack

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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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How to Get Mats Out of Dog Hair

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Matted Dog Hair

Matted dog hair can be a huge problem for pet owners not to mention for their beloved pets. It is often a frustrating problem that can lead to skin irritation, fungal infections and considerable discomfort for many a dog. In extreme cases matting can even reduce the dog’s mobility.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Fortunately, with the right tools and time-proven techniques, dealing with matted dog hair can be a manageable task.

The following article provides information on what you need to know about the causes of knots in your dog’s hair, techniques you can use to remove them and practices you can employe to prevent them reoccurring.

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Make a Dog Grooming Wish

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Request a dog grooming article.

This post is giving you the opportunity to suggest a topic that you would like addressed in this blog.

Perhaps you are a dog owner looking specifically for help with a particular area of grooming your own dog at home.

You might simply be a new dog owner and looking for tips on raising or training your new pet.

Or maybe you are someone who is considering becoming a dog groomer, in which case you may have very specific questions not addressed yet in this blog. I will do my best to try and answer your question and/or write an article on the topic that you are interested in.

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