|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
06-04-2009, 07:10 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Johnson City, TX. USA
Posts: 19
| Grooming & Bows I'm sure this is been talked about before but didn't really search that far back to find it. How often do yall take your Yorkie to the groomers? And at what age did you start taking them? If you do small grooming at home what all is involved? Willow is now 5 months I bath her as needed every few weeks or so, I brush her ever few days, I trim the hair on the tips of her ears to keep them standing, I cut her toenails. I have tried to shave the bottom of her feet with no luck at all. I try puttin bows and clips in her hair to keep it out of her eyes but she will only wear them a very short amount of time before she either rubs her head on the floor till the fall out or paws at them. How do you get them to learn to keep the bows in? I just pick them up as soon as she takes them out and puts them right back in. Sometimes she will go a few mins others about 30 mins. Any advice is welcomed. Thanks. |
Welcome Guest! | |
06-04-2009, 07:22 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | How often you take them really depends on your preference or need. If you plan to keep her in coat...the rest is "maintenance". Shaving ears, sanitary shave, trimming the hair from paw pads and trimming nails are all easily done at home. If you have plan to keep her hair cut...depending on the cut...probably every 6-8 weeks. Unless her coat is silky...you should be brushing her more often than every few days...a matted coat is the reason many of them get shaved. Groomers are not going to brush and comb out your dog. Get her used to having her hair up in grooming bands without a bow. Those are what keeps the hair up...not the bands of a bow. When you're ready to try bows...put in a grooming band then the bow. The bow band goes underneath the grooming band and helps keep it in place.
__________________ Deb, Reese, Reggie, Frazier, Libby, Sidney, & Bodie Trace & Ramsey who watch over us www.biewersbythebay.com |
06-04-2009, 07:48 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Johnson City, TX. USA
Posts: 19
| What is a grooming band? And what is a sanitary shave? I have never had a long haired dog before. |
06-04-2009, 07:52 AM | #4 | |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | Quote:
A sanitary shave is from their rear end between their hind legs up the tummy. Their tummies are kept smooth. The "maintenance" I mentioned is usually included if you take her to the groomer's for bathing.
__________________ Deb, Reese, Reggie, Frazier, Libby, Sidney, & Bodie Trace & Ramsey who watch over us www.biewersbythebay.com | |
Bookmarks |
|
|
Thread Tools | |
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart