I'm going to use--we have the two stripping knives, the finer knife and the wider. And I prefer myself to use the finer knife for most of the work. But like everything, it will work as you begin to use the tools and get used to grooming your dogs, so you will use your own adoptions and find which tools and which better suites you best.
So with the knife, we just hold it in our hand between the finger and thumb and just pull a few hairs out each time as I say, coming down to the middle of the neck. And once it begins to shape up, you get the little shape that you really want. This is the easy and the quickest and the shortest period of time. You remember it takes 10 weeks for the coat to come through to its flourishing.
And there we are. That’s just the first stop. It’s a short--how was that? But what we do need to do is to really get right down to the skin and to get all the undercoat although the breed standard does call for some undercoat. If we take the undercoat right out, then, we do get a cleaner line, a tighter line and a better coat and a harder coat coming through.
That’s just the nape of the neck from just behind the top skull and just between the level of the ears which is there. And then that will come and grow nicely.
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