Depending on your priorities and budget, decide whether a groomer is right for you. IF you decide to cut hair yourself, there is a learning curve... it's greatly reduced by watching lots of those youtube videos, there's using clippers and there is using the fingers then cutting with scissors methods ect and so much more. Every haircut I've given, I have to use multiple methods, been a while since watching the videos but they should show all of that. Hair is hair, it grows back.. the dogs never completely like it until it's over. LOL
The length is completely your choice, I go shorter so I don't have to clip as often.... I think it's the 3/8" guard is the shortest I will use now to avoid razor burn on their skin. I think minor razor burn occurred the last time I used 1/4". From there, after the clippers, I try to bring the rest, the parts the clippers couldn't do, legs, arm pits, toes, neck... into shape with scissors.... I shoot for the puppy cut... longer tail and head hair, shorter torso and legs hair. |