Before I would attempt to trim this dog, I would want to brush and comb every part of this particular dog. So can I first show you, I will take the brush and I would brush in that direction, remember you must go with the flow of the hair with the line of the hair?
And then you will see in that brush I've got dead hair. That’s the beauty of the brush, it doesn’t hurt the dog and remember when the hair is dead, it causes no pain to be extracted from the dog. Remember when you're also grooming that you must groom the underside of your dog, not just the top line, as many people seem to do. Can I just walk around this side and show you? I would brush down the forehand of the dog and I also want to brush his belly. I would lift him so, still there’s a good--and make sure that you brush everything.
Remember a male gets a little untidy and a little sticky and dirty underneath, don’t forget to brush inside of his legs, front and rear. A cairn has a double coat, a harsh outer coat and a soft, wooly undercoat. It’s that soft, wooly undercoat that when it gets damp, that’s the part that all sticks together and you get the knots, etcetera. Just let me brush him that for you first.
Earlie is a dog that loves water. He will spend his days in the water. So therefore, the hair on his legs will be inclined to be a little softer than I prefer but no way I'm going to stop this dog playing in water, that’s his forte, that’s what he loves.
Now we can see how much dead hair we've taken out of the coat. And if you were to groom your dog regularly, every week, once a week, you would find that the very little need for actually stripping out the coat completely, because that brush would do much of the work.
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