Whether your dog just needs a trim or wants the latest in pooch coat fashion from a groomer, there's more to ensuring you get the look you're after than simply dropping them off for their appointment. Jo Marsden, a multi-award winning master groomer, says brushing your dog's hair regularly at home using the correct technique makes a huge difference to a canine's salon visit. If the coat isn't in a good condition when the dog arrives at the groomers, they are limited to what sort of look they can do.
READ MORE: Karen never expected to hear what her vet told her at 4am "Go in with your dog in a in a good condition. It's actually not really our job to be brushing a dog's mats out for hours and hours and hours. It's the equivalent of us going into the hairdresser with dreadlocks and asking the hairdresser to brush it out," she tells 9honey Pets.
"We need a certain amount of time to make the dogs look beautiful and some of the appointments can take anything from one to two hours. If we add in a coat that's very knotted up and matted, it can take three or four hours." Dog coats should be brushed at home twice a week and before a dog is bathed as well as after once the hair is dry.
Marsden, who has curated the grooming competition at The Pet Show in Brisbane , says that while a comb is a good tool to check for knots, it's not ideal for removing knots with. "We don't encourage people to use combs to remove knots, because this can make dogs dislike being groomed. So we .
