Grooming is hard to do?
NEW PUPPY IS HARD TO GROOM?
Many first-time puppy owners in Singapore find it very difficult to groom the newly acquired puppy. It moves a lot, bites and put its mouth into the owner's fingers or grooming brush. The owner is afraid of hurting the puppy and sends it to the groomer regularly, leave the chore to the domestic worker or just do not bother at all to keep the puppy clean and well groomed.
It is important that the first-time owner learns how to groom his puppy as the groomer may not be free on week-ends.
1. Get your puppy to get used to being handled and groomed.
2. Put the puppy on the table. Lift and touch the puppy's paws to train her to accept handling. Brush or comb your puppy. Don't allow it to bite your hand or the brush.
3. Lift the lips and open the puppy's mouth. Rub your finger along the gums. This is to get the puppy used to tooth brushing.
4. EARS.
4.1 Wipe your pup's ears with a baby wipe or a commercial ear cleaner on a cotton ball. Do not insert a cotton bud into the ear canal unless you know how to do it properly. Cotton bud tips or fibres are known to have dropped inside the ear canal causing irritation and ear scratching.
4.2 The picture of the ear canal is shown in Picture 1.
5. NAILS
5.1 Use an arm to hold your puppy and the other to snip the nail. Position the clipper such that you can see the pink quick. Clip in front of the quick. If you clip onto the quick, the puppy feels pain and there will be bleeding. Put a cotton ball onto the bleeding point and bandage up the foot for an hour. Consult your veterinarian if the bleeding continues. For black nails, you can't see the quick. You need to estimate the position to trim the nails.
5.2 Use a nail file to smooth the nail tip as many owners complain about the sharpness of nails.
6. LOWER PART OF THE BODY.
6.1 Inspect the skin of the lower part of the puppy including the belly, groin, tail, the anus, the genitals and the arm-pits. Small rashes and pimples are best treated early before they spread to the whole body.
7. Praise the puppy for standing still and allow you to brush or groom it. Keep the grooming sessions no longer than 5 minutes. Give a treat for accepting grooming without a fight. grooming is part of its weekly routine.
8. If you invest some time in training your puppy to accept handling and grooming, you can keep your dog clean and well-groomed for life.
8. With training, your puppy will accept handling at the veterinary surgery or the groomer without fear or struggle. This is important as an aggressive puppy is hard to examine or groom.
Dr Kong Sing
Many first-time puppy owners in Singapore find it very difficult to groom the newly acquired puppy. It moves a lot, bites and put its mouth into the owner's fingers or grooming brush. The owner is afraid of hurting the puppy and sends it to the groomer regularly, leave the chore to the domestic worker or just do not bother at all to keep the puppy clean and well groomed.
It is important that the first-time owner learns how to groom his puppy as the groomer may not be free on week-ends.
1. Get your puppy to get used to being handled and groomed.
2. Put the puppy on the table. Lift and touch the puppy's paws to train her to accept handling. Brush or comb your puppy. Don't allow it to bite your hand or the brush.
3. Lift the lips and open the puppy's mouth. Rub your finger along the gums. This is to get the puppy used to tooth brushing.
4. EARS.
4.1 Wipe your pup's ears with a baby wipe or a commercial ear cleaner on a cotton ball. Do not insert a cotton bud into the ear canal unless you know how to do it properly. Cotton bud tips or fibres are known to have dropped inside the ear canal causing irritation and ear scratching.
4.2 The picture of the ear canal is shown in Picture 1.
5. NAILS
5.1 Use an arm to hold your puppy and the other to snip the nail. Position the clipper such that you can see the pink quick. Clip in front of the quick. If you clip onto the quick, the puppy feels pain and there will be bleeding. Put a cotton ball onto the bleeding point and bandage up the foot for an hour. Consult your veterinarian if the bleeding continues. For black nails, you can't see the quick. You need to estimate the position to trim the nails.
5.2 Use a nail file to smooth the nail tip as many owners complain about the sharpness of nails.
6. LOWER PART OF THE BODY.
6.1 Inspect the skin of the lower part of the puppy including the belly, groin, tail, the anus, the genitals and the arm-pits. Small rashes and pimples are best treated early before they spread to the whole body.
7. Praise the puppy for standing still and allow you to brush or groom it. Keep the grooming sessions no longer than 5 minutes. Give a treat for accepting grooming without a fight. grooming is part of its weekly routine.
8. If you invest some time in training your puppy to accept handling and grooming, you can keep your dog clean and well-groomed for life.
8. With training, your puppy will accept handling at the veterinary surgery or the groomer without fear or struggle. This is important as an aggressive puppy is hard to examine or groom.
Dr Kong Sing
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