How to groom a portuguese water dog at home
Grooming an almost matted Portuguese Water Dog
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alright so here we got Maggie back she's
our Portuguese water dog client and
we're actually gonna do mom said she's
been reading on Facebook and she's down
because it's still hot and her dogs are
on the pool everyday we're actually
taking it down shorter so he did Bruno
yesterday and we did a tube guard and a
four guard down she said she wanted
actually shorter than that so we're
going to go with our seven and honestly
I don't realize it but I do have every
book all kinds of place so I'm using my
Oscar Kyle tech size 7 F I'm gonna jump
between that and my I have all kinds oh
wow actually we have more zoster 7fp
light and
dang I didn't realize all these ovens
are austere austere seven so all the
seven EPS you have and you can do an
azure austere I've had these for quite a
few years I mean more than five years
we're talking so you're going to need
two or three to do this right that's my
opinion so we're just going to start in
the back and we're playing this one by
ear as far as all the tangles and stuff
I'm just going to get my hair try going
I run into some snags then we'll see it
together okay if you're watching me and
you're using this video to help yourself
groom or you're watching the video and
taking notes to what tools you want to
get while you're grooming be sure you
have a face mask on while you're
grooming and if you need some please by
way I have them and I make them for you
by hand
have you got some knots in there you
never want to just keep pushing when you
get into some not because we can pull
skin in there too it doesn't matter what
flavor it is you want to come back to it
man mom said yesterday she got home and
she could see you know that because I
mean Bruno's up not really curly here oh
right and she's like I really want her
shorter than that so that's interesting
right I've got some thoughts in there
she already told me there was gonna be
not going to bring anything I got the
issue if you have dogs that get in the
water every day that you really you've
got a pool and your dogs are getting in
the water every day man can you imagine
not brushing hair that you get wet I
mean just think about it for a minute
it's kind of tangled a little bit just
for this moment why and then you get in
the water and you're running around
enjoying yourself again
but if you have a dog getting in the
pool a lot you are really going to have
some problems if you leave in marijuana
you're not doing Daisy meet it's just a
lot of work
this is too much this is too much
barking ow
that please
let me get the dog up stand because
slowing me down having to keep putting
her up okay
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no no no she's trying to tell me what to
do and I don't like it at all
it would be one thing if we were playing
and throwing ball it's not that we are
grooming and I have sharp equipment and
as you all know this is not a game
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it's not a game what we're doing here
one wrong move can hurt anybody
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maybe relax
you're okay you're okay
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mom wants uh about four inches left on
the tail in the rest game sure this is
all personal preference if you guys
gonna like it I get it but it's not your
dog so whenever the pet parent wants as
long as it's doable
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I'm going to come back to underneath and
do that later with the ten
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you got my salmon
I use way more andis blades and there's
better deals on the and displays I'm not
actually on with Oscar right now so if
you want blades I recommend the end
that's all day long I actually opened up
a brand new Oscar recently and although
well the tips of the Oscars are really
sharp so it just depends on what I'm
trying to do and how I feel and I'll let
you know what I'm using but these blades
I've had for a very long time so I
wouldn't like it either so I'm added in
there I'm going to come back for the 10
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it's all matter on treating me man your
face is right here one of those bars
could turn and go fight it easily
my foreheads like right at her eye level
so be careful don't be dumb and if you
are walking in here just gotten here and
you think that dog wouldn't bite and
tape you face you yes a yo hey if you
surprised our something freaks them out
at the last minute they will let you
know and you could beat your face sure I
bought your forehead your lip even know
you knew for a very long time know for a
long time
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that's too freaking out that loud
high-pitched just sudden bark it's just
scary it's scary
it makes everybody jump right even if
it's not even painful it's just scary
it's just a sudden MacLeod it's too much
man okay
and there's no other dogs in there it's
not like she's got a reason to act that
way right now not at all the only thing
I could say would have idea is there's
just a knock so I'm doing a to guard
with the ten I'm using a two guard
reverse all her head and mom wants to
ear sure she said she went home last
time and has trimmed her ears all the
way up to the leather so this time we're
gonna take it down sure and if you're
not listening to the video you're
missing out if you're gonna comment and
not listen to what's going on then
honestly you shouldn't even watch any
cuz if the pet parent is asking for
something I'm not what we're going to
try to do as long as I can make that
happen without any harm being done
nothing hurting you nothing is bothering
you we may not like the haircut but you
don't have to put in very often you know
it's all matted in here so you're gonna
have to come down some shorter with
something else
spell matter than they're obviously sick
and it's not fun is it
hey hey no don't look at me like that
don't get mad at either it's not fun
it's not fun for me I don't wanna do
that to you it's all matter
okay I know it's mad oh my goodness you
guys these hats now I'm gonna do seven
and ten throughout the undercoat here so
let me get my stuff
no need for that
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Panda
No
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so I got to keep in mind that a Maggie
here does not like the blow-dryer she
does not allow us to blow-dry her for
very long because she just basically
jumping up and down and neurotic so we
don't push it and I like the fact that
I'm willing to call that you know like
I'm just like look we're not gonna keep
doing this to your dog so there's a
couple ways you can help your dog get
used to a blow-dryer and doing it at
home and I don't mean a motor I mean you
have to get a blow-dryer for a dog and
really can really work with your dog
with a dog blow-dryer because they are
two different animals cuz all day long
I'll actually let my own don't air dry
would I be them so what you know that
you can tell you so you guys tell me if
you were grooming a dog like this
barking and yapping and jumping and
she's not really jumping but you doing a
lot of that right like that what would
you do go ahead put it down below
comment on that I would like to know
what how you guys are gonna handle that
it's pretty loud it's right in your face
too
okay let's keep going
stop Maggie Maggie stop damn
good
that's good that's all I need you to do
is just stay stood
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I truly pay attention it every time I
get a Mac rocking box
and thing is is that me personally I've
never she's been coming to me since
she's very young and I've never heard
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again Bruno and her had the same problem
this really really makes it a very tough
grooming situation so I challenge you
guys I mean if you're gonna have a dog
jumping in and out of the pool please
get a haircut that's short every month
keep it completely short
I'm doing a 10 now because I gotta get
under the knots and maps created by
water and dry and water and dry and
because of her yapping and like she's
gonna possibly bite and she can't snow
but you can still fight me through that
I'm gonna protect myself by putting that
awesome you say smoothing all this is
matted look this is a huge mat think how
big it is that's one right there I just
took off for hope
Maggie Maggie Maggie that's okay this is
I know you don't like it I know it
doesn't feel good
I really wish I can reverse time but I
can't I can only fix what we got going
on now I need to heard no silence there
that can to help you right now
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I'm gonna round the rest of the body
we'll come back to this one
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I ain't ever been
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agree with you give me a moment
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stay there
just gonna close my eyes and feel when
you change our paths and see if we've
got an ounce in there here watch my face
watch your own maker yeah we're just
gonna feel in there make sure see
there's any knots and there was not so
that's good while he's here I wanted to
see the paths that she's really enjoying
his presence
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so the ears got some mats on it which is
going to make it difficult to really do
all we need to do so you've got to make
some decisions as you're working and I'm
gonna have her go to the bath because I
have a walk-in nail trim so I'm going to
move quickly now and kind of figure out
what I need to do so that she can just
go to the bath and I can have this other
table yeah because there's mats and be
really reluctant to just put so we're
gonna come back and shave these mats out
first
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okay again at the tip of the ear where
the skin starts if you've got mats like
this it's very sensitive area I don't
know that I would sit here and detangle
and do that a lot of the ear a coma get
a chrome and brush brush and comb check
it daily
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this is all matter than here which is
why she was up really bothered earlier
so I skipped it I'm using my comb here
mom said she wanted short ears okay so
we have to go short anyway so while I'm
here and I've got mad so I'm taking the
mats out and I'm going shorter I'm going
to be safer cutting shaping the mats out
first and then going back and trimming
that year so let's just do this once I
person then that way we can get the
other side then hopefully we'll be done
in just a few minutes you need to hold
that leather in your hand so if you cut
anything you're cutting around your
thumb should not cut the skin if you do
that that way and I can't really see so
just get it out of your way first and
then come back and really even it all
out now I can really see where this is I
can feel and not see where the skin is
she really so her dad is her owner my
her main Pete you can tell as soon as a
man comes over here she's up to him
behaving different I would just David
doesn't have he's not a groom on yet and
he can't do what I do so there's a
difference than why I can't just say
here David you didn't accomplish this by
yourself okay it's not gonna happen like
that
I wish it would but it's not
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that's how i'm added this is right here
all the way to the skin in this area i'm
gonna do some safety areas for you to
see all the way up to the skin now
they're not the spot right there that's
a dangerous clock what the batteries
look at this see she's hesitating
even with his president because it is
painful you guys all it takes is david
checking with the calm and brushing
that's it real simple it's a pain in the
sense of the to take your time
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so David its presence right now is
basically as a cheerleader and she's
extreme demands
man that sounds familiar doesn't it how
many of y'all out there need a man's
support feel good about what you're
doing so that's what all that David is
doing right now is just an emotional
support here
but I know many of you and even myself
are very very very very very long time I
have not had a helper so you would have
had to accomplish this groom by yourself
you would have just kept going and if
you run into those struggles like I did
or heard jumping up and down you're just
going to be calm and you're gonna take
it as take it as quick as you can
all those mats alright we are going to
the baths now okay so we were able to
dingo was able to blow-dry her more than
usual but it's a shorter shorter cut so
she was to more tolerable with it she
did get quite a bit of blow-dry guy he
did say that her yelping and he called
it screeching which is a great word for
that her screeching is very loud and
scary I mean it's a sharp and piercing
the ears
she's doing it again but if he does come
over here she knows that every time
she's she's gonna get what she wants to
do that training right now they're not
here to play this is not playtime yeah
we have work to do we have a job to do
we're running a business so we have
other clients and quite frankly I know
that
she seemed to really love David and
that's great and all but what if I was I
don't know it is what it is
so if you're out there you running into
the same situation you just keep working
you just get the job done step step
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yep so hurt using her teeth to correct
me
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Maggie if you behave we wouldn't have to
use that okay if you don't work in my
face or trying to fight the Clippers we
want to have a problem so your behavior
your behavior needs to be contained so
just relax and let me get done and then
that can come off you don't try to bite
we don't have to do the level simply
that
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no no that's enough
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Matt Maggie I know you're I know you're
smart I know you understand exactly what
I'm doing and what I'm saying that's
enough nothing's even happening
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you see if they stay calm if you don't
stay calm but putting it back on you
don't stay calm on this going back on
okay here's your warning
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this you look up don't get mad at me no
notice how she's not wanted in game for
trying but go bite don't bite either
yes ruff no we're not doing that
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stop stop
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see
think this way
all right we are good to go
okay you guys thanks for watching d
decoy with my favorite groomer on
YouTube so we did Maggie today and I
just got to say you know grooming is fun
sometimes you're gonna get those animals
that just just really make it difficult
and you can see with Maggie
you know the matting around her legs and
if we post Bruno as well Bruno same
thing man we had gosh is something in
the inside the foot causing pain and
issues Maggie wasn't like trying to bite
aggressively so thank God for that
but the squirrel screeching is really
scary it's just jolting and if you're
trying to work you just got to work
around it do you get frustrated
absolutely absolutely you're gonna get
frustrated I don't think anybody out
there is just like numb to it
I guess maybe says I had a good neighbor
one time and man they let their dog bark
all day and night and they were been
numb to it I think they didn't care I if
all the neighbors could hear it so maybe
there are people that are numb to it but
you're thinking you're working you've
got a dog jumping and yelping and
flipping around it makes it really tough
if you have a help or great but this is
why you know if you are going somewhere
you might have to spend more if you have
an animal like that because really it
should be a two-person job probably I've
been working alone for quite some time
David's been here some months now and
thank goodness for her for his help but
you still have to be I'm the groomer I'm
the one that has the grooming experience
the grooming training I've been doing
this for a very long time so if you're
working with someone that doesn't have
all that then yes they can do it be
helping but if they cannot just groom
the dog themselves and that's your
limitation is that you have a helper so
pay accordingly and take notice and then
just don't you know that person may not
be good at and understand enough how to
keep themselves safe and you may not get
it but if you work with animals than you
do or if you're a pet owner that got bit
by your own dog put it down there it can
happen and it will
you hit a hit some a nerve if you hit a
nerve and shot the dog just you just do
something that just makes that dog just
a snap and you can sometimes never even
understand that you did it or that you
are doing it and they just bite you you
know it's so fast and you can see on my
channel many of those aggressive dogs
that you don't have time to breathe you
can you don't know what's gonna happen
so how do you have time to react until
it's already Midway and then you're
trying to pull your arm back not get bit
so I've been pretty lucky over the years
I can feel it I can know I'm yelling
there's different things that I'm gonna
do to try to keep myself safe and others
safe and part of that is just being a
freakin drill sergeant okay back up stop
that don't do that like you someone's
got to step in and keep the other person
safe when they get involved and maybe
not be here but this is just a chitchat
now Maggie again is it exhausting yes
absolutely so I didn't give her a break
I just pushed through and we get it done
okay
David's presence helped her calm down
and I'll take note to that in the future
but just because David's here doesn't
mean that every time I groom her David's
about it just that's his physical job
now is to stand there and be her
cheerleader unfortunately when you are a
business owner and you're running a
business that's manpower that you're
paying someone just to stand there and
so really the the best thing that could
happen in this moment is that at home we
fix it so moms on board
she takes note to everything I bring up
her way and and I'm very real with her
and I she said how did she do and I said
oh it's very exhausting so you all I can
do is be honest because if I try to
sugarcoat it and then I it happens again
and next time I'm more exhausted then
you know I didn't even let her know it
was exhausting to begin with so we have
some some ish some things were gonna
work out at home I told her she needs to
be using her comb she said okay I'm not
using my comb like that I'm gonna start
she's doing some mat removals at home
but we really need to just know about
our tools and she's not a groomer she's
a pet owner so she's gonna be learning
these are new breeds to her to she's
going to be
learning this as we go through and then
again like I said in the video you got a
dog jumping in the pool every day if you
don't have a dog that jumps in the pool
you I guess you may not know what I mean
but if you have a dog that jumps in the
pool everyday and you don't get to D mat
every day it's just a buildup like I
didn't even want to bathe Bruno with the
mats he had in his paws yesterday that
tells you something I got his all body
groomed except for those matted paws and
one of them had some kind of sore or
some kind of twig stuck in there with a
sore and mom says she's gonna take care
of that so if I'm not gonna even bathe
that mostly groomed dog and that that
tells you right there I should I'm just
trying to be so real with you it tells
you right there how serious I feel like
a mats are and those of you that want to
deem at yeah go ahead go ahead run your
business like that that's fine it's your
choice but we do a dog in an hour here
and about an hour depends on the
situation sometimes it's 40 minutes
sometimes the fifty minutes sometimes
it's an hour you can only do a dog in an
hour when they're maintained at home
okay you can't take a matted dog and be
done in an hour most of the time in that
if they're really that big or really
that difficult so thanks for watching
decoy with my favorite groomer today was
a tough groom and I appreciate ya'll
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