Must Haves
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| A good pin brush if you want to keep coat. Good clippers with a blade to clip at the length you like if you want shorter. |
| It completely depends on how you want to keep your sheepies coat. I have everything. I have kept her in long coat and shorter. |
How about a really good groomer?  |
| I'd write more but a shaggy butt is asking to go outside, so: http://www.sheepiestuff.com/videos.html |
Oscar's hair has been kept clipped since he was 8 months old, when we discovered a huge infection on his leg. He requires frequent bathing, so shorter is better. Up until 2011, he went to a groomer for the puppy cut shave with clippers, and I would bathe him weekly, pull ear hair, and trim hair when necessary. Then he was really ill for months, so I bought clippers (Andis) and started doing it at home. Now he can no longer stand for long periods of time, so I have been scissoring him down instead, as I can just do a side at a time. My dematting tool? Scissors!  Since I don't have a show dog, I just cut out matts. Here is my kit:Small slicker brush (face) Large slicker brush (body) Flat scissors Curved Scissors (good for rounding back end and for cleaning up pertinent parts) Comb (for face and beard) Ear Powder Miller's Forge nail clippers That's it. Oscar has all kinds of special shampoos, etc., but these are all of the tools that I use. |
| If you do a search here, up top ...My Photos, FAQ, Search and put in brushes or something like that, you'll see down lower on the page is a whole section devoted to grooming. Best advice I remember is "get someone to show you how to use a pin brush." With two coats, brushing isn't just a swipe across the hair. Instead small sections are lifted and brushed up from the base. It is time consuming but necessary if you want a fluffy long coated dog, not a matted mess. Mats form quickly in "rub areas"...behind the hears, in the "arm pits" for example. 99.9% of groomers don't know how to groom and OES and refused to learn as it takes time especially if presented with a matted mess.......like 8 hours or more. The shaving down becomes necessary. A few of those sessions and one realizes owning a good set of clippers and several blades is cheaper than going for shavedowns at the groomer. Don't forget nail clippers. Begin immediately to train the put to tolerate toe touching and squeezing, will make toe nail clipping a lot easier. And yes, being a long haired dog, those inner ear hairs need to be kept removed. Several here have quite plucking those hairs but keep the ear canal clean. K-dog is a continual ear problem child so I am cleaning those ears constantly and also plucking......but not at the same time. One day pluck, another day clearn. Back to feet, the area between the pads can become matted as well. All that toe tickling comes in handy when you have remove mats between the pads. Grooming is not casual with sheepdogs, it is continual. |
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