How to groom a shih tzu teddy bear cut
HOW TO GROOM A SHIHTZU PUPPY IN A TEDDYBEAR CUT
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hey guys this is cocobaby and it is
about
nine o'clock a.m when i did this video
look how cute he is he's like barely
awake
um so i'm gonna go ahead and start with
his bath i used oatmella shampoo
by double k and i diluted it in a empty
bottle that i had
because the supersetter system is really
forceful especially on puppies so
i decided i'd spare him alright
so i'm pretty much just pouring this all
over him making sure that it's getting
to his skin
and i'm just scrubbing him down
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next up is his face and on all my dogs i
use
spa by choppy clean blueberry facial
shampoo it is a tearless shampoo and it
helps
lighten up their face and i'm just
making sure that i'm getting
any eye discharge or anything stuck in
his beard from food
and i'm really digging in there again
it's tearless so this doesn't hurt his
eyes at all and
i like to leave it on for about a couple
minutes
so that's exactly what i'll do
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so he did have little burrs in his fur
so i'm just going in with my chris
christensen brush
and i'm getting rid of those before the
drying process
and i'll be putting him on my table and
there he goes he's on my table i am
brushing him out
this may look like i'm going in rough
but i am not i promise
i just have to get through all these
little
mats that he has i don't know if you
could see it in his on his stomach
especially
and it's really important to go ahead
and brush your dog out before you dry
them
because it will ensure a shorter
drying process and it'll make the fur
dry
a lot better this way
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all right guys so i'm going to grab my
dryer right now and most dogs and
puppies
are scared of the dryer so with him it
is my second time grooming him
but i'm still going to have him smell
the dryer just so
he's kind of aware what is about to
happen and i don't blindside him
okay so i will be using my heated dryer
instead of my
cool air dryer only because it was
pretty chilly that morning
and i will be using that type of hose
head
instead of the very narrow one and
pointed one
because it'll use less force and he'll
be less scared
i also have the dryer on the lowest
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setting
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i am taking the nozzle off the dryer
only because i know it was gonna be
way too harsh for his face uh just be
sure that when you do do this
that the fur on his head or on top of
the dog's head
and around the cheeks is well brushed
because if not
it will take forever to dry
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all right now we're going into the
haircut and the first thing i'm going to
do
is the sanitary area and i like to do
the sanitaries
with a 15 blade i feel like that blade
is pretty safe for that area
and it picks up all the little hairs
so i should mention before i start the
haircut that i don't know if you could
see the legs are pretty uneven because
the dad
is a barber and he tried to go ahead and
give him a haircut and found out that it
was a lot harder than expected
so i'm just going to even him out today
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while doing a sanitary trim your
objective should always
be to have that area really really
really clean
without the blade getting hot and
without nicking the dog
and without leaving any razor marks
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okay so next i'm going to start shaving
down his paw pads
and i do this with a 40 blade and i'm
very gentle with it because paw pads are
very sensitive but i do get in between
them
because they tend to get matted up
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all right so i'm gonna use a number one
comb on his body
this is how it looks and i have a 40
blade under that
but first i just gonna comb him one last
time just to be sure that there are no
tangles because if you are using a comb
and there's tangles it's not a good mix
you will leave marks
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most dogs really don't mind this process
it kind of feels good to them it's like
a massage it's almost like there's like
little fingers running through their fur
so they're most likely to fall asleep or
just doze off
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okay so every time i'm doing a haircut
especially a comb cut i always have a
comb
right by me to just keep brushing out
the fur
and ensuring that the comb is grabbing
all the fur possible and doing it evenly
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his little face cracks me up here
because he's literally like what are you
gonna do with all that where are you
taking all that
your objective is really to get as much
of the coat off as possible with the
comb
but you're not gonna be able to get all
of it
and to get on into all those nooks and
crannies
so that's what the scissors are for and
the thinning shears are for
because it's all going to come together
at the end you're going to
get all those little hairs that you
didn't get with the comb
with your scissors and your thinning
shears
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i do put cotton balls in their ears
it's up to them if they like it or not i
do this before the drying process
so it's not so loud and that's exactly
what i took out of his ear
right there
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a little trick i have when grooming the
belly is that i go reverse with the comb
just to blend the belly with the
sanitary area
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so i took off the comb for just a second
to shave out his
armpits um i don't really go really deep
with the blade i just literally just
touched the surface of his armpit
because
it's a very sensitive area and the
skin's really thin there so
you just want to be careful that you
don't nick them
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and yes i kiss them any chance i get
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alright so right now i am getting out my
lovely chris christensen
curved scissors and i'm going to use
this on him
to you see all that extra little hairs
that are sticking out
on his paws i'm going to even that out
now and i'm going to round out his paws
and then i'll round out his legs and
we will move on to the face
to even out his paws i'm using the half
moon chris christensen comb
the teeth are still together that it'll
bring out any little hairs that are out
of place so i really love this
for paws and for faces and even tails
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all right guys i just kind of want to
give you guys what i see when i'm
scissoring a leg
i see a leg as five parts first the paw
and that's what i
do first i scissor the paw because this
paw is going to
give me an indication on how thick the
leg is gonna be
and then i concentrate on the four parts
of the leg which is the back of the leg
the left side the front and then the
right side of the leg
and i just go scissoring all around but
i do these in sections and just make
sure that
everything flows together at the end
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the inside of the leg for me is
definitely the hardest to scissor
and that is why i lift up his leg and
scissor it that way because i'm just
trying to angle myself just to get the
most even cut
again you see i'm starting with the paws
first and i'm literally
letting my scissors do the work for me
i'm just going all around the paw but
because the scissors are already
curved they're going to make that shape
for me i just have to make sure that i'm
cutting evenly
all around
the key to a great looking neat groom
is definitely balance and stability
in your hands especially because we're
working with a moving canvas
um so you have to just keep as steady as
possible and of course
having the eye for detail and
also accounting for every little piece
of fur or hair that is sticking out
and i do want to say that this takes
practice so
people that are just starting out or
groomers that are just new to this craft
please don't stop stop practicing and be
patient with yourself you're gonna get
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notice how the one comb didn't go too
short on him but it was short enough
just to even everything out
that's what i love about combs that
you're never gonna get the shaved look
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all right so the first thing i do when i
start off on faces
is i grab my guide thinning shears and i
thin out all the hairs in between their
eyes
so they are able to see and i am able to
start ahead and shape their face
one of the most important aspects of
grooming is knowing how to handle a dog
and just how to position yourself while
grooming them
so when i'm grooming the face i usually
hold very gently
their beard so they know not to move and
i could just balance myself out with my
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shears
i find that most dogs find this part
really relaxing i
feel like it feels really good uh
between their eyes and i feel like
they like the feeling of being able to
finally see
so they usually stay very still for me
when i do their cheeks i just flip over
the ears so i could see what i'm working
with and
a little hack is that you could take the
same comb that you used on their body
and just go down on the cheeks with them
because then that way it'll be less
scissoring for you
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i switched out my one comb to my zero
comb a zero comb is a bit longer and
that is why i'm using
it on his head if you were to use a one
comb it would probably look really short
so you always want to keep the head a
tad bit longer
i am now prepping to scissor his bangs
that's about to come i'm gonna pick up
my comb there i go this
is one of my favorite parts because it's
so fun to shape
uh so what i do is that i comb
everything forward and i go in with my
curves and i just
go at it again let your scissors do the
work for you just be sure that you are
cutting evenly
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just like the legs the head also has
sides to it that you have to account for
so the head has the top and then it has
both of the sides the left and the right
and then it has
the bottom okay so you just have to make
sure that
all of that at the end comes together
and the nose is somewhere in the middle
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i just feel like it's really easy to
think about it that way because
this way you're just breaking everything
up in sections so
you know once you look at a face before
you groom it
it could be overwhelming but if you
break it down and just
concentrate on a section out of time
everything's just going to come together
at the end
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guys i just need to point out on how
good this dog is behaving i mean it's
only his second time with me
he kind of knew what to expect but still
he's a baby and he's really new to this
whole process
um and he's just he was such a good
sport he's such a sweet boy
when you groom puppies you have to be
very patient with them and just very
have a very calm energy because the
first groom always indicates
their grooming for the future so if you
do have a puppy and you have
and your puppy owner please start them
off young it's really important that you
do and try to find a really good patient
groomer
so the process could be great for all
parties involved
i'm gonna try to grab his little hairs
now um
from the front of his mouth they're like
sticking out
i do this with a 15 blade but he was
kind of not having it i didn't really
want to push it
because i was just very scared he was
going to lick so i kind of just gave up
on it
and i will get him more used to this as
we go
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all right so i picked up the same
thinning shears that i used to
thin in between his eyes with i am just
going
and blending his whole face together
i'm taking off all the sharp edges and
all the little scissor marks
so if you're like scissoring a face and
you're leaving marks i mean
try to scissor as precise as you can but
if you're like
leaving marks don't really worry about
it because you could erase
this with a thinning shear literally
thinning shears are erasers
and in the makeup world thinning shears
are blenders they're blending brushes
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all right so we're almost done and we're
moving on to his ears
literally i just pick up his ears and i
go around
with my scissors and i just follow the
shape of his ear
all right i'm not gonna go crazy on it
i'm just gonna go around them out and
then i'm gonna
thinning shear them and they're just
going to look cute as a button you'll
you'll see
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last but not least i'm going to use my
chris christensen chunkers
to go over his whole body just to be
sure
that no hair is left behind and that
everything
is looking even
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oh my god guys just look at his little
face look how innocent he is
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i absolutely love using chunkers on
tails
because they make them look so flowy and
so natural
you could use scissors at first just to
take the length off sometimes if the
tail is too long that's what i'll do
and then i'll go ahead and use my
chunkers just to
even everything out and just make things
look a little bit more natural and not
so straight edged
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all right guys something i want to point
out is that when dogs walk
they usually walk with their tails up in
the air
um not downward so you could see in
between their legs
and when the owner sees in between their
legs they should see
very neat lines
that's just gonna make your groom look
so amazing so i'm
really really just detailed on the
inside of the legs and making sure that
every little hair is in place
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watch how sleepy he is like you could
tell in a little bit look how he's
blinking
this process should be really relaxing
for them it really shouldn't be
stressful
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okay so by the next groom i'm going to
be
letting that hair grow that i just
signaled
that area because there should be more
hair there
just to make the legs look a little
fuller
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