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Here is my latest full groom of Lacey. I’m still keeping her legs and body shorter during coat change. She was at 5 1/2 weeks since her last full groom, which I shared here as well.
I didn’t take “official” before pics since I was gonna do her groom quick and not share this time. Hopefully it’s still helpful.
I used the clippers on her face for the first time. She did struggle a little bit but allowed me to do it. I did things a little bit different on her underside since she has swelling from being in heat.
The day before I did the bath and HV blow dry.
10 blade no guard: anus, base of tail, feet (did feet sloppy)
1/4” guard with the grain: top of body, front of chest, sides of body, legs
1/8” guard with the grain: front of neck, under ear area of neck/side of head, under chin, face, underside of body, genital area (nipples and vulva are swollen otherwise I’d have not used a guard here), inner back legs, armpits/legpits, butt.
3/8” guard with the grain of ears first. Then 5/8” guard on ears against the grain. Used curved shears to shorten the ear hair all around the edge of the ear leathers.
1” guard starting on back of neck up to topknot toward the front of head to make shorter quickly before shaping.
Then used curved shears to blend the back of the neck to body and shape the topknot. Also to tidy up hair on muzzle and around eyes since I can’t clip hair close enough to the eye when using a guard comb.
Shaped the tail using curved shears.
I didn’t bother tidying up her legs since it won’t be noticeable in a couple days that the shape isn’t good and there’s stragglers. Tidying up legs with shears seems to have the ability to be one of the most time consuming things of the groom.
Short blunt tip scissors to trim hair growing out of ear canal.
I didn’t take “official” before pics since I was gonna do her groom quick and not share this time. Hopefully it’s still helpful.
I used the clippers on her face for the first time. She did struggle a little bit but allowed me to do it. I did things a little bit different on her underside since she has swelling from being in heat.
The day before I did the bath and HV blow dry.
10 blade no guard: anus, base of tail, feet (did feet sloppy)
1/4” guard with the grain: top of body, front of chest, sides of body, legs
1/8” guard with the grain: front of neck, under ear area of neck/side of head, under chin, face, underside of body, genital area (nipples and vulva are swollen otherwise I’d have not used a guard here), inner back legs, armpits/legpits, butt.
3/8” guard with the grain of ears first. Then 5/8” guard on ears against the grain. Used curved shears to shorten the ear hair all around the edge of the ear leathers.
1” guard starting on back of neck up to topknot toward the front of head to make shorter quickly before shaping.
Then used curved shears to blend the back of the neck to body and shape the topknot. Also to tidy up hair on muzzle and around eyes since I can’t clip hair close enough to the eye when using a guard comb.
Shaped the tail using curved shears.
I didn’t bother tidying up her legs since it won’t be noticeable in a couple days that the shape isn’t good and there’s stragglers. Tidying up legs with shears seems to have the ability to be one of the most time consuming things of the groom.
Short blunt tip scissors to trim hair growing out of ear canal.