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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  I groom myself also. BUT Uni is the easiest yorkie on the face of the earth to groom, so I guess i am spoiled. However, when I WAS trimming her, I just looked at a pic of a yorkie I wanted her to look like and clipped away. It's best to have good quality scissors. Some cheap scissors don't cut the hair well, and end up pushing the hair out of the blades instead of cutting it all, if that makes sense. and you get a slanted cut where you wanted it to be straight.
For tipping the ears, you can use those plastic eyebrow shavers if they are scared of the clippers sound near their ear (or if you are scared to do it! LOL). If you do use clippers for the ears, do NOT go up the side edges of the ear, only along the flat part of the ear, otherwise you will end up with a mangled ear  . Also the thing that you use to trim nose hairs can be used to cut the hair between the toes.
Don't forget to try to make it a happy bonding experience. They will trust you more and more and it will get easier and easier.
I read someone on Yt said, Why should I pay someone to mess up my dog's hair when I can do it myself for free?  love that! |
I agree
never, never use the hair cutting clippers on the ears. I use battery "trimmers" for the ears...quick and easy. One of my Yorkies is in a long coat, thus it's basically a bath and comb out, ears trimmed. The nails, glands, etc I take to a groomer.
The short cut one...I keep shaved in the saddle area and was trying to grow "pants" but I went to trim her feet and she ended up with capri's...it was awful, so I took her to a groomer friend of mine and they fixed. the legs have grown out now and look good, as has her tail which for whatever reason I thought needed trimmed with her feet (turned it into a bald bob)
I plan for that one to eventually have that modified schnauzer??? (only with a top knot) look...long legs and tail, short in the saddle.
So yeah, you can screw it up, but if you're not showing the dog, it's only hair...it grows back...eventually :-) Start slow with just a trim.