So today I broke down and cut 3/4 of Maci's hair off!
I gave her the YT Special.... Joey cut lol. Her coat is cottony and was probably 3-4 inches long/wavy. It wasn't giving me much problems as far as matting, but it was getting greasy/dirty looking really fast and so mainly I wanted to stop having to give her a bath every 2 days lol. THIS IS SO MUCH EASIER TO CARE FOR, yay!
If you want to know how I did it at home read this paragraph, otherwise skip to picture time!
1. I took scissors and ran my fingers through her coat[back/sides ONLY, no legs/tail/head/neck] and cut the hair all the way down to my fingers. This left her coat at about 1in in length.
2. I took the electric clippers and snapped on the 1/2 inch guard and ran it all over her back/sides until it looked even. Then I switched to the 1/8 guard and did her WHOLE back and sides and belly. I used the 3/16 guard to blend her body/legs, and to shorted her chest hair. NOTE: I ran the clippers WITH the hair not against the hair. Going against the hair will produce a closer shave. It will still look the same just shorter.
3. I used the tiny whal beard trimmer w/the big guard [only came w/two and had no size on it] and did her paws making sure to blend leg to paw evenly. And did her bum as much as she'd let be. Also used this with no guard on the tips of her ears ONLY.
I did nothing to her head/face/ears minus the tips.
For her bum and back end I had to use scissors because she would NOT let me near there with the noisy clippers lol. So that's still in the process of being "perfected" and even looking at my pictures on here I can see spots on her side I need to even out. But this
was my frist time grooming her, so I didn't expect to get it 110% right.
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