I love the Wahl Peanut too! (Mardelin should be getting a profit percentage for all the referrals!
). I find one of the nicest things about it is the safety. You can put it right against your own hand to show it will not cut the skin. That really makes it nice for trimming the ears. I can lay the ear across my hand and take the trimmer right down to my hand, cutting just the hair with no worries about cutting the ear itself. It is nice for the sanitary cut too. I also use it for the foot pads. I don't normally go up in between the pads, but if there is a clump, I might take some of it out. Mostly I just cut the hair even with the pads so there is nothing to make them slip, slide around.
I keep Ben in a long cut, and the Wahl Peanut provides all I need between groomings. It helps me to stretch a grooming to every 8-12 weeks instead of 4-6. Saves a bundle! Now that I have said that, his poor ears are looking mightly straggly right now! I will have to get that Peanut out tomorrow!