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A Quick Step By Step Guide to Grooming and Bathing Your Dog

Like every living being, dogs too need love, care and affection for proper growth and development. Same holds especially true for such dogs that are pets. As a part of general pet care, you need to bath and groom your dog whenever required so as to let it enjoy overall good health of the skin, hairs and in turn the entire body. Since all dogs are different therefore their bathing and grooming need also differ to great extent. You need to use appropriate things and products so as to bathe and groom your dog in a perfect manner and keep it healthy and happy. Here is quick step by step guide for most pet owners to groom and bathe their dogs in an excellent manner and ensure its safety and happiness too.

A Quick Step By Step Guide to Grooming and Bathing Your Dog

Keep in mind the specific needs of your pet dog

As stated over at Pooching Around and such other websites, every dog has varying requirements as far as bathing and grooming is concerned. Some dogs need to be bathed and groomed more often while others may require the same after a few days or even weeks. Thus you need to keep in mind the specific needs of your pet dog and go ahead with bathing and grooming accordingly.

Use high-quality bathing products

In order to ensure total safety of the skin and hairs of your pet dog, you need to use high quality and branded products. It is best to check the ingredients and consult with the experts about the safety of the given products for your dog specifically. You may prefer using the products prescribed by the veterinary doctor for your dog. It helps in assuring that the products being used are suitable for the skin as well as hairs of your dog.

Be careful while bathing and grooming

Bathing and grooming a dog requires you to be utterly careful. It is because pets are just like kids and need to be handled with care. You need to protect the eyes, ears and the face of your pet dog from the soap, shampoo or the conditioner being used for the bathing purpose. In the same way, make sure a soft brush or other equipment is used for the grooming purpose.

Make your pet comfortable first

As per the pet experts, it is quite important to make your pet comfortable with bathing or grooming. First, introduce it to the bathing and grooming equipment and the products. Also, let it get familiar with the bathing area. It helps in keeping your pet dog calm and relaxed during bathing and grooming.

Make bathing and grooming enjoyable

You need to be very gentle and soft when offering a bath or grooming for your loved pet dog. It helps in making the entire process enjoyable. At the same time, you may associate bathing and grooming with positive things, rewards etc. Again it helps in pacifying your dog as it is being bathed or groomed as it expects something from you in return.

This way you may very easily bathe and groom your dog and keep it neat, clean and healthy. In fact, bathing and grooming at the proper time in an appropriate manner helps in prevention of numerous health issues in an automatic way.

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Marisela Zuniga

Friday 11th of January 2019

Thank you for sharing this great information! Cute picture

Calvin

Friday 27th of April 2018

My cat grooms himself so I guess since he's indoor cat I don't have to bathe him that much. This is good for dog owners though

Jessica H

Wednesday 14th of February 2018

I’ll have to try these with my dog; might save money that’d go to the groomers!

Rosie

Monday 12th of February 2018

This is good information. I haven't had a dog in a while, and by reading these posts, I feel prepared to have one again!

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