MATTED to the SKIN! Sweet 16 year old dog gets a fresh start

today i'm going to show you how i safely remove a pelt from an extremely matted dog this havanese is 16 years old and he has not had a professional grooming in 13 months the first thing i'm going to do is give him a much needed bath that's correct you may have heard in the past that you should never bathe a matted animal but that actually couldn't be further from the truth matting should never get wet and then be left to air dry air drying is actually where the problem is as an animal air dries they will typically rub their bodies on surfaces in an attempt to dry off faster the combination of wet hair expanding as it dries and the friction from the rubbing causes the matting to form more tightly to the skin due to the severity of his mats i'm going to be doing a method today called wet shaving wet shaving is something that i started doing when my business was allowed to reopen again in the summer of 2020. many pets were coming in to be groomed and they were in horrible condition and i needed to do something that was more efficient and also less distressing to the dogs as many of them have never had matted hair before wet shaving has many benefits first it allows me to get through the coat quickly and with less pulling since the hair is wet the weight from the water starts to pull it away from the skin which makes it easier to get underneath the mat with my blade in addition to that the wet hair actually prevents my blade from heating up i now no longer have to worry about switching my blades out during the shades since the hair has been cleaned first it is also less damaging to my equipment if i tried to shave this dog down when he was dry it would have taken me a lot longer and i would have had to switch my blade several times to avoid burning his skin despite the thought that wet hair would jam my blade it surprisingly does not collect between the teeth i'm using a number 10 on this dog today and had i not washed him first i likely would have had to use a shorter blade on his legs and his tail not having to use a shorter blade in his more tightly matted areas and not having the blade heat up on me means that it is less likely for this dog to experience skin irritation after his groom today matting is very painful for animals the best comparison i can give you would be to imagine you had a ponytail on your head and every day it got tighter and tighter eventually it would get so tight that it would actually cause hair to pull right out of your scalp now imagine that ponytail was all over your body the matting on animals can become so severe that it actually starts to cause mobility issues prevent proper defecation and urination and it can even cut off blood circulation to their limbs many people don't realize that when getting a dog that doesn't shed their grooming maintenance is very high they require daily brushing and professional grooming on a four to six week schedule professional grooming can be expensive so ways to stretch out your appointments would be to ensure that you are brushing regularly if you can't afford grooming or you don't have the physical ability to brush your dog it would be a good idea to research other dog breeds that don't require professional grooming such as short smooth coated dogs god [Music] once i removed this good boy from his prison i clipped his nails before the bath his nails were quite long and unfortunately so are his quicks his quicks are the vein that grows inside of his nail so i couldn't take as much off as i would have liked i'm giving him a second bath in our colloidal oatmeal shampoo to help soothe his itchy irritated skin he showed signs of being very itchy when i was shaving him but i can tell that removing his pelt has basically fixed that problem because he doesn't seem to be itchy anymore after he is dry i smooth out his haircut and then i remove the matting from inside of his paw pads [Music] i tidy up his ears i sprayed him down in our good boy cologne and this guy is feeling a heck of a lot better it's hard to believe that this little dude is 16 years old he also had a little bit of a crush on the cameraman but i can't say i blame him stay tuned for his before and after and our pet of the day thank you so much for watching i hope you enjoyed this mega transformation [Music] today for our pet of the day we have three-year-old saxon the shih tzu poodle mix and his feline brothers who love their new equi-groomer you

Channel: Girl With The Dogs

Views: 2,401,664

Keywords: dog, cute dog, matted dog, shave, dog grooming, pet grooming, groom, Havanese

Id: 60zIyL_f21E

Length: 6min 9sec (369 seconds)

Published: Mon May 30 2022