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How To Groom A Long Fluffy Coat
from: Kyle BesserSome breeds of dogs with long coats are characterized by a certain appealing fluffiness as opposed to those with long smooth flowing hair similar to long human hair. Keep this in mind when grooming dogs with long coats. Think of the coat as standing out from the body, rather than lying flat against the skin.
Once you have finished giving your dog a bath, below is a step-by-step process on how to groom that long fluffy coat.
1. After towel drying the dog, blow dry the long coat to keep it from drying into tangles. Use the blowdryer on the cool or low setting. Work from the bottom up, using the pin brush or slicker brush to fluff dry. Divide the hair into sections with the pin brush or slicker brush and hold the sections out from the body as you blow dry.
2. Keep the blowdryer moving over each section of hair until it is dry and work your way up. Start with the legs and rear end and work your way up and forward. Keep brushing and fluffing for fullness, keeping the coat free from tangles.
3. Finish by running a metal comb through the coat to make sure you did not miss a single tangle or snag.
4. With a #10 blade on your electric clipper, shave the dog's anal area to help keep it clean and free of long hair and tangles. Be very careful not to touch the blade directly on the dog's skin. If you don't want to use an electric clipper, you can clip it neatly with scissors.
5. Depending on the breed or if you like the idea of having your dog's underside free of long hair, shave the dog's abdomen from groin to naval and down the insides of both thighs with the same #10 blade on your electric clipper. Shave with the lay of the hair.
6. Trim between the dog's paw pads with scissors. If hair covers the feet, trim around the feet so the hair reaches the ground evenly around the paw in a rounded shape.
7 Brush and comb the hair on the dog's head, ears, and face.
8. Stand back and look at the dog's shape. Scissor any stray long hairs without changing the shape of the coat. Just look for uneven, stray areas that stand out after drying and brushing.
9. To finish the dog and enhance the coat's fluffiness, you can spray it with coat conditioner or coat dressing to keep it soft and in place. Brush lightly over the top of the coat to set. Brush from bottom up and from shoulders forward to fluff-the ruff. Fluff the tail, the body, and the chest.
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