How to groom a shih tzu at home with clippers
How to clip a shih tzu one length all over
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are you good boy are you ready for your
haircut look growth up there you ready
are you shiny shiny well today's video
I'm just gonna show you how I think
what's the tale how I clip this shih tzu
it's basically one length all over it's
pretty short it's nothing fancy and I
just want to show either before and
after so hey so this is the before he's
pretty shy then he likes to sit down
maybe lay down turn around kind of pull
up legs right and look at his face you
can't even see so I'm gonna make him
some nice or trim his bangs really good
so he can actually see hello hi
you ready I know but you always love it
when you're finished right you ready
alrighty so let's get started so this is
the blade then I'm gonna be using it's a
4 F and I'm gonna be clipping them
before the bath because he has quite a
bit of hair I really don't want to wash
them and have to blow-dry all that so
sometimes when I'm cutting a dog short
I'd like to get off most of the hair
before the bass and when I dry them it
doesn't take so long and then I can
reclip them so generally my dogs will go
on the tub you know before I cook them
but in this case since his hair is a
little bit longer I am going to clip
them first just gonna take that off so I
like to start just behind the skull here
and so this is before the backflipping
so you know you don't need to get it
straight or even at this point that's
going to be done after he's all all
washed and dried
I start at the back of the head and just
go all the way down to the tail and
coming down the sides
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George my arms in the way so basically
I'm just trying to get off the bulk of
the hair I'm clipping with the Greens
off the hair not against it and just
coming down the side just to get the
balls off
do you no need to wash all that hair I
just lifted the leg up
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just put most of it off
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I'm gonna hold the tail like this and
let's stop this leg by just grabbing the
ankle here now these comfortable I'm not
bending it in a way which you can see
it's okay with this that's what a good
boy
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and down the front leg
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and I just lift up the leg sorry you
won't be able to see that but you get
the idea and office hair on the feet I'm
just gonna lift up his head
and clip down his neck and chest
and what are you going and you too far
away my arm sounds that long you know
I'm just gonna lift up his ear
she's got math up there I might have to
use a different four different ways
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and I'm just going to repeat it on the
other side
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I'm just pulling his leg a little bit
forward so if you get this armpits here
and holding the skin you don't want to
cut the arms
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all right so that's all I'm going to
clip off right now I'm going to get my
bow blue drawing him and then reclip
them pray so he's all washed nice and
clean and dry I've already done to his
pads and his nails I do have videos on
doing that so make sure you check out
the description down below I will put a
lot of links for you to go see and a lot
of other shih tzu grooming videos and i
just didn't want to make the video too
long so I'm just doing the cooking part
right are you happy or happier now look
at happiness because it game yay okay
we've got every clip you now okay ready
alright so what I normally do you know I
blow dried them I just kind of comb or
brush the hair and against the grain
here from the tail to the head but I'm
doing that just so I can you know just
to get the hair to stand up you see the
hair like this is all the hair that I
missed the first clipping so a little
basically I'm just gonna do it the same
way and maybe just loosen this up just
so I can start behind the head there
come here let me just take that right
off just don't fly down
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you just want to get the hair and more
even because remember the first time I
clip them was a rough clip right oh and
always check for any rose some a dog
like anymore
because you don't want to be clipping
into them and you know causing them to
bleed or sometimes it's hard to avoid
that he has a warty thing up here and if
I was using a shorter blade I could have
just shaved that right off so we always
want to check them out to see if they
have anything you know growing on their
body you try to avoid it but sometimes
with the washing drying and combing and
brushing tripping you know they will
they will bleed it's hard to avoid
sometimes to making them bleed right
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we're getting more even now so this is
just an easy quick it's nothing fancy
like I said before it's nice for the
warmer weather springtime at someone's
spring time now any time of the year
actually you can do this clip easy
maintenance you can worry you know too
much about you know taking too much care
you do have to take care of the coat but
it's easier than it is with a long coat
and you have to groom them a lot more so
a clip like this could last I would say
eight weeks
just remember the longer the hair the
more grooming they need it's a strong
had a long fold you would have to come
and like some drugs would have to come
every two weeks we've got a really long
coat but I know some people want like
they call it a puppy clip which is
longer they need to come in every four
weeks otherwise they just get in all
messy and matted and and then they have
to get shaped down so you have to keep
on a regular grooming schedule so when
the dogs are clipped short the grooming
can be you know last a little longer but
I wouldn't go anything beyond eight
weeks because you got to do the passed
the nails to face the eyes right we just
gotta keep up with your dog's grooming
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when you bowl the legs just fold them to
where they're comfortable some dogs
cannot bend a certain way you don't want
to be bending them if they can't do it
right hold them them where they're
comfortable you don't want to hold the
leg no way over here or in a different
direction which they can't hold it so I
can always tell by how they move their
leg
some dogs hold their leg like he's
holding it here for me and that's fine
I'm not forcing him to hold the leg but
some dogs do fight they do fight even
though you hold them you know the proper
way and all that they just don't want to
get groomed so you just got to kind of
you know figure out how you can hold
them without you know hurting them right
you don't want to bend them in different
directions I'm just going to clip down
the neck again
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then you can always take your comb and
just come up
always check your work
what underneath there
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alright so now I'm going to clip the
other side alright so I did clip the
other side is basically the same as the
other side so I didn't want to show all
that or just take too long but anyways I
did want to show you how I do the
armpits so when I check the armpits
there's always like a little hairs you
know sticking up everywhere so what I do
is I hold them by the elbow and I use my
fingers like this to move the skin so
you see all that hair hopefully you can
see that you know all this hair here so
I just take my scissors and I just cut
that shorter because otherwise all this
armpit hair is going to be sticking out
like when the dog walks and it just gets
all knotted up because it's under the
armpit you know the friction of the dog
walking will cause saw some mods you can
even take your clipper on a shorter
blade like a 10 blade and clip out the
armpits I just like to use my scissors
sometimes so I'm just kind of moving the
skin so I can get all that hair
there you got a nice armpit then I'll
check it once again when I'm check-in
like the other side right now I'm going
to trim the feet now I did do the pads I
did the nails so basically I'm just
gonna trim the feet and make them round
now you could trim them while the dog is
holding the foot you know standing up
it's holding the foot on the ground not
holding the footage basically standing
there you can just trim it around when
you can also pick up the foot I like to
pick up the foot so that I can get all
the hairs
then you can just check your work and
just go around again now when you're
doing the foot I recommend you do the
front first don't go straight across but
it'll make a pointy you want to you know
have the foot to be round right you
don't want it to be pointy
let me just pick this up a little bit I
see some hair right here it's hard to
get there we go Oh Stan that's sometimes
a move there all right so with the front
paw I like to pick up the foot here and
basically I'm just making it to round
get my comb
I trim the back here now we did have a
couple of knots between the toes so
sometimes that just you know throws off
the look right and I want to make sure
there's nothing hanging here you see
this hair doesn't need to add there that
looks okay this is and it's best to cut
the nails beforehand because you want
them as short as you can so you can make
a nice round palm sometimes if the nails
are long standing you know and there's a
nail sticking out what it just kind of
makes the paw you know not look round
right it looks like a different shape so
you can't really you know fix that up
unless you leave the foot longer all
right good enough I know you're
struggling
alright so around the rectum has to be
clipped right you want to keep that
short and clean so the dog doesn't you
know mess on itself I don't like to use
clippers here because it can give them
uh you know a little bit irritation Tom
dogs don't like it and some dogs are so
sensitive in this area and then they'll
start you know rubbing themselves on the
carpet and biting themselves so
sometimes the scissors
works like the best for the dog there we
go
there I'll fix up all those little hairs
later okay so I did trim his tail
shorter my camera shut off so I couldn't
record that part but I do have a video
on me trimming his tail it's basically
what I call as a flag tail his tail was
really long but the owners like it's
shorter so I'll put the link down below
for that video and you can go and check
it out if you like there we go now for
his head I'm using the same blade that I
used on the body it's just a four app
now he might sow he's kind of sling her
down and move over the cameras way but I
can't help that hopefully you can see
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I'm going with the way the hair grows
just following it now lift up his chin
and I'm just going to take that right
off
and I'm going to take all this hair on
the sides off
under his ears he's shirt all over it so
he gets a short face as well
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right he's good off the bottom of his
case here
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now I will trim his bangs I'm just
cutting them straight across come here
you're gonna be able to see now mm-hmm
there we go
she just have such short noses they've
got all this hair in here so I'm just
gonna get off what I can with the
scissors okay you're doing good you're
doing good
very very good very very very good
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that off because it just gets in the way
right so what I'm doing as a holding
this skin up this skin is very flexible
so what I'm doing is holding them like
this and I'm stretching the skin upwards
because once I let it go all the hair is
gonna be back in his eyes so I'm just
clipping that off
we're getting there we're getting there
yes we are
alrighty so I will comb this like
upwards and use my scissors to cut all
this stuff even for now don't want much
hair left on the face then what I'll do
is come here now I'm not holding them
you know I'm not squeezing him or
anything like that
I'm just holding them it's gonna be held
so we can stay still alrighty then and
then I'll get my thinning shears and
just blend all those sharp lines just
you know to make them smooth looking and
not so sharp and just cut you want it to
look natural and when you use infinite
series you just use these quick cuts and
pull out
because when you use signatures remember
it's not all the hair's not getting cut
it's like every depends on the stitch
here it's every second third fourth
fifth hair that's getting pulled out
right it's not getting pulled it's
getting cut but since the other ones
aren't getting cut you got to pull it
out because if you keep cutting in the
same spot you're just going to create a
big hole you can certainly do that on
areas that you need to do that with like
here
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and I don't pluck his ears see I don't
even want to touch them he has problems
with his ears so I don't mess with them
just doing that above your eye right
there and as you want to sticking out to
lots of the mr. canal
all right so he's pretty much almost
finished I like to hold head to the side
and then you can see like the silhouette
and then just trim anything sticking out
or uneven or whatever you see so I'll be
going over him again without my camera
in the way because uh you know I can't
get to the angles that I need to and
then his ears what we tried just a
little bit always look for the end of
the years before you cut because you
don't want to be cutting the actual ear
that wouldn't be good of course I just
cut straight across
how you pretty right thumb yeah you're a
boy so I guess you're handsome hmm
they're just some air here I gotta fix
up
all right so here's the finished
finished dog so I use the for app
basically you know on the leg on the
body the legs a head the face all over
so this is a nice easy you know
maintenance haircut pretty good about it
I'm just gonna be going over him areas
because it's owners to come in soon so I
gotta finish them up right alright so if
you want to see any other videos of shih
tzus grooming i'll put the links down
below in my description I'll put more
videos there as well so you can go check
them out so I want to thank you very
much for watching and we'll see you in
the next video
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