So we’ve done those things at the head of the dog. The next thing is brushing and combing. The more times you brush and comb the more chances you’ve got or producing a nice coat. You should always comb first and you want to buy good quality comb like this which is fine on one end and a wider teeth on the other and really make sure that you take out any tangles particularly around the opening to the ear channel. On the days, sometimes when I have cavaliers coming in for their grooming that I won’t neglect if they can be.
For such a small easy breed, I have ladies coming in weighing about 20 stone with a tiny little dog sitting in the shadow and the ladies usually say “I’m afraid she’s knotted because I cannot get down in to her” and I always say, “Why are you getting down, why don’t you have a table and put it on the table”. “Oh, I never thought of that.” So this is a nice easy table breed. No hassle once you trained them. This animal in a few months time I would be able to leave on the table and she will not attempt to get down but at the moment she still a bit skittish.
Always check the feet, make sure you comb. This is a non trim breed and you must not trim out the feet at all. You want snow shoes. Always make sure that there are no knots in between the pads. The moment she have not much coat so we don’t have too many problems as far as that’s concern. Always make sure you check in the armpits.
It's no good if the coat is coming out even if you’re going to show the dog. No good trying to save the coat. Get it out, the quicker you get out the quicker the new coats can be comb through. This is the thing you have too watch with bitches when they’re coming to season especially the young bitches they are not quite used to all this and they sometimes don’t always clean their selves up and they can get into terrible mess on their back featherings.
Tail is something that caught their beauty so you should look after that very particularly. Always comb in downwards. And then hot bone they grow this feathering. Some people I’ve seen them at shows do this. They come upwards. That is not good because when they move away the judge all of hair fluffing about and you can’t really judge their butt movement.
So once again you check the pads, make sure there is no mat in between those pads and I have a very fine comb because as they grow older, if you got a good coating line this gets so out of control. In my youth a very fine comb like this one. You see you can take out quite a lot of this and it keeps it neat and tidy and you get a much better cleaner outline on the back end.
I don’t like what you’re doing to me because I can get very bushy and it’s not good. It shouldn’t be too much comb. She’s not loosing much can’t go over with the fine comb. Make sure that anything is ready to come out, actually comes out and I think if you spend ten minutes perhaps every week or every other day just doing this your dog will always look up together. That’s the first price going down the shirt because we’re losing our coat.
Make sure that the bead is always well groomed out. In six months time this bitch will have a very good coat. It’s a nice flat coat. It does not give any problems. You can get too much coat on this breed and then you will have lots of static and fly away. Now, I always have a good quality brush with this kind of brittle. It's starts off to shine up the coat and it takes out the dead hair without breaking the coat. It also stimulates their skin.
And then I buy this what I call old ladies hair brushes. You can find them in junk shops. You usually have to these terrier breeders to get this. These are quite inexpensive to buy and I usually put it on a polish on and what I use is Bay Rum. Bay Rum is a gent hair dressing, very old fashioned. You can buy in most good canines and I have 50/50 water and Bay Rum. You don’t want meat Bay Rum. I used to use this at the shows but unfortunately the canine club has told us that we can’t spray or do anything on the dogs so I’m not spraying the dog as far as the canine club is concerned. I’m spraying my brush and this freshens them up. Makes some smell nice and clean and gives a polished coat.
Make sure the ears are polished as well. All part of the cavalier’s beauty. This bitch I think has probably been bath no more than three times in her life because if you keep them in clean condition and don’t allow them to get dirty they will stay very clean. They are clean breed. They don’t like being dirty.
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