hello! I use to cut my s**tzu's hair by my self.. just got clippers and practiced with the longer comb until i got use to which one i liked. Rascal is 11 months old and never had a hair cut except to trim the beard shorter but not all the way off and i did get the length cut up to about a inch from belly but no were else. I wish i hadnt done that but now im waiting on length to grow back long again. But i told the groomer rascal is more calmer when im aroun and since being his first time could i stay. she let me and i even helped hold him. but since im letting the belly grow back out and dont want his face or legs touched, i clip with small sciccors my self. At first he would snap at me to even hold them up to him.I just kept tryimg, let him smell around on them and rub them acroos him without cutting to show him they wouldnt hurt him, Now i just trim around the pads of his ft. lots of times when he is sleeping, under the tail and the eyes i let the little stragglys stays up the nose some but the little peices right in the corner of the eye i just do one snip right in the corner and thats it. He will stand there and squint(ha) like a kid would but he lets me do it. I also had given him a visor right above eyes cause it was hanging down so bad.. but i want it long too so i can pull it up..so i have to wait on it to grow too.. I guess we learn as we go...im afraid to leave him without me being there to watch!! |