Grooming a dog is important to ensure your dog maintains a healthy coat, and healthy skin. If a dog does not receive the appropriate grooming it can result in a dull coat, excess hair, and problems with the coat and skin. These problems can avoided by properly grooming your dog, and the best way to do that is to know about the proper dog grooming tools, and learn how to care for your dog. Learning to groom a dog can help you save money by avoiding paying for a groomer, and also help save on vet bills by keeping your dogs coat clean.
Dog Grooming Tips
Remember that when grooming a dog you should always use the proper equipment. This means equipment that is appropriate for the dogs coat type. If the dog has a fast growing coat then it will require clipping or cutting, but a dog with a heavy coat may just need to be thinned out.
Another good tip is to familiarize your dog with the sights and sounds of grooming at an early age. You can do this by exposing them to the tools when your dog is a puppy. If the dog is familiar with the tools and sounds it will make grooming much easier at a later time
Dog Grooming Tool List
Here is a list of tools that you may need when grooming a dog. This list was compiled to help you be prepared, and make the process of grooming a dog much easier.
- Spray bottle or water gun
- Flea Comb
- Training Disc
- Clicker (like the ones used in dog clicker training)
- A squeaky toy
- Toothpaste for dogs
- Chamois
- Nail Cutters
- Dog Whistle
- Rubber brush
- Bitter spray or taste deterent spray
- Dog Crate
- Synthetic bristle brush
- Tooth tartar remover
- Toothbrush
- Soft pin brush
- Bean bag bed or other comfortable bedding
- Thinning Scissors
- Slicker brush
- Stripping comb
- Electric clippers
- Wide toothed comb
- Narrow toothed comb
This is a fairly comprehensive list, however if you are going to fully groom your dog you will need almost all of these dog grooming tools, or a variation of them. Some of the dog grooming tools will only be needed once a month, while you may need others to perform daily grooming.
In our next article we will give you some grooming tips and talk about daily grooming. We will also explain how to use some of the tools described above.