And I noticed that I've got just a little bit too much beard underneath there which I will shape out with these. Now the amount of beard you leave is definitely a personal preference and I've had some deep coming to me for trimming for seven years now and they never had the dog’s beard trimmed and it’s down to here, looks a bit like an overgrown schnauzer in the head. But with the small breeds like the miniature dachshund, I think you have to look for balance more than perfusion of anything and in this case I think she has too much beard. I don’t know what you think but as such I'm going to trim it.
Now how to do that, I get the beard combed into position, down either side and forward and then down and then I get an idea of the balance I'm looking for, I go down, just take a bit of my hand in this case is acting as a safety barrier. Now, before we take too much of it, assess it again. Is that enough? It’s certainly not too much because I've allowed for that. And there's a final touch, I think there’s enough inlaying for the way I should lose that sweetness. There's a final touch when trimming a beard. If you look at it form the profile, you'll see it’s a bit untidy here, from there to there so what I do, if you can see it, I don’t think you see it, maybe you can.
Comb it down, get your scissors, get the angle right, look at the angle of the scissors and just cut that bit off there. You're not taking anything off the length that you're tidying the line down that way. And do the same on the other side, so you comb down. See the untidiness?
So if you just keep still for a few seconds down there. So that’s Donna, a very different dog. And I think you’ll agree she’s quite a sweetie underneath all that fur.
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