Cleaning around the mouth
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| I invest in paper towels or a towel, and after every single drink, I dry their mouths. I also only fill the water up 1/2" instead of filling the bowl, use filtered water, and I trim their beard. |
| I keep my sheepies beards trimmed back, too. It tends to get matted quickly, due to water, food, or just being hot and panting. Keeping the underjaw shorter tends to keep the stain not as noticable. |
| i keep billies beard quite short too. i also use a non spill water bowl
http://www.roadrefresher.com/testimonials.php they can only sip out of it. what a difference it made. a dry beard and a dry floor too! oh and got rid of the fish pond too! |
| Wipe with a hand towel after a drink or meal.
If there a dribbly dog then harder to keep beard white. Good dry clean method when the beard is goopy so you dont have to keep washing and drying it. Get some "Corn Starch" grab a handfull and squish it into the beard then grab a brush and run the brush through the beard, do it outside or you will have powder everywhere, takes goobies out of the beard and any remanents of food and also makes the beard nice and dry after.  Then you dont have to wash the beard as much and freshens up that area, sort of a "Dry Clean" quick clean up. |
inthedoghouse wrote: i keep billies beard quite short too. i also use a non spill water bowl
http://www.roadrefresher.com/testimonials.php they can only sip out of it. what a difference it made. a dry beard and a dry floor too! oh and got rid of the fish pond too! Wow, this looks like a great design. Can we get them in the U.S.? |
| i got mine from a famous auction site so i imagine you can get them anywhere! |
| Thank you all for your replies! |
| Here is the link to an older thread where we have discussed keeping the whites white.
http://forum.oes.org/viewtopic.php?p=15477#15477 White beards and whites in general are an ongoing challenge that in truth none of us have truly "mastered". We all have to expend a lot of energy to keep the whites looking good and some dogs are just to "wet mouthed" for us to win. But try we do......... Hope this helps a bit, Thanks and Cheeers Carl |
While we're on this topic...does anyone (Carl??) have any suggestions on the safest way to trim around the mouth? I had a terrifying accident with Bert, when he stuck out his tough at exactly the wrong moment and got cut!    I havn't had the nerve to try again since then |
ravenmoonart wrote: While we're on this topic...does anyone (Carl??) have any suggestions on the safest way to trim around the mouth? I had a terrifying accident with Bert, when he stuck out his tough at exactly the wrong moment and got cut!
I havn't had the nerve to try again since then Oh been there done that - I only use clippers around the mouth now |
kerry wrote: ravenmoonart wrote: While we're on this topic...does anyone (Carl??) have any suggestions on the safest way to trim around the mouth? I had a terrifying accident with Bert, when he stuck out his tough at exactly the wrong moment and got cut! I havn't had the nerve to try again since then Oh been there done that - I only use clippers around the mouth now lol you just got to get them quick before the mouth gets wet in the first place. i clip billy when he first gets up, before he has chance for a drink as he hates his face being dried. clipping it dry is much easier as for any scissoring, either put the hair between you fingers first, if you are nervous. or to stop licking, blow in their mouths, but then you have to be quick as it does have a long effect |
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