Hair care
The body of a dog covered with skin on which hair grows. Leather nourishes the hair roots by various essential substance. It is riddled with subtle blood vessels, along which the blood supply nutrients and oxygen. The surface of the skin is allocated carbon gas. The sebaceous glands, located in the skin, isolated fat-like substance, which lubricates each hair, making hair supple, waterproof.
A healthy skin does not penetrate microorganisms. Leather and fur maintain a constant body temperature of the animal, protect against adverse effects of the weather. To maintain the skin and body in good condition is necessary to properly care for them.
First of all, we must teach the dog to a regular comb cleaning brush and comb. This procedure removes dust, dirt, dander, dead hair, massages the skin, improves its nutrition and metabolism. Combing the dog should not resemble combat. Often you can see the ugly picture of how, having seen a comb in the hands of the owner, the dog hides under the furniture, hide in a corner and growls from there, sometimes rushes and trembles, and the master force, delicacy, persuasion attempts to retrieve your pet for the enforcement "operation".
Combing should bring joy to both. Dogs who combed properly and regularly, like this procedure. Comb and brush pick up in accordance with the breed that you hold. Metal brushes of fine wire wound thin skin of dogs. These brushes can be applied to dogs with very thick, fairly long hair. It is advisable to obtain expert advice, what better to get a brush. Improperly selected brush, not only scratch the skin of a dog with a less dense coat than a poodle, but pulls out tufts of wool, decreasing its quality.
You need to purchase a metal comb with pointed ends and brush with natural or artificial thick and short bristles.
Teach the dog to have to comb with two months of age. Put the puppy on a rubber mat so that it does not slide, and gently talked to him, gently comb the body first, then the legs and in the conclusion of the neck and head (first comb, then brush). Smooth dogs need to be cleaned only with a brush.
It is best if you comb the puppy several times a day, spending it 3-5 minutes. Do not forget, after combing encourage the puppy, but not necessarily treat you can take him for a walk or play with him. When the puppy gets used safely to treat a long comb for 10-15 minutes (for long-haired dogs), enough to produce ztu procedure once daily.
Some breeds require special handling and wool - plucking her twice a year. Wool breeds of dogs such as airdale Terrier, Fox Terrier, and some others do not fall, but otmiraya remains in the skin, preventing the growth of new. Plucking is not a complicated process, it is accessible to every owner.
Brilliant, resilient wool - indicator of the health of your dog. Any illness, metabolic, gastrointestinal activity, unhealthy diet, lack of movement in the open air - all this affect the quality of wool. Feeding excessive amounts of vitamins, leads to metabolic disorders and did not improve, but worsens the quality of wool, so vitamins must be given in strict accordance with the instructions attached to them.
Terms washing dogs
Wash the dog should, as appropriate, that is, if the comb and brush can not help, or need for special training of wool before the show. While bathing, the water temperature should be not too hot nor too cold (36-37 C). Keep your eyes and nose from falling into the water, shampoo, soap, in the ears invest cotton balls. Detergents should not be placed on the sex organs. Do not wash your dog with a dim, greasy hair, has a specific "dog" smell. For such a dog's metabolism is disrupted, you must find out the cause and take measures for its elimination. Washing the dog in this case will only worsen her condition. Thoroughly wash off the remnants of detergents. After washing the animal must be dried immediately. After drying, comb the hair. For some species needed hair styling hair dryer. Washington should be in the evening, after a walk that night the dog had time to dry completely.
A few tips
Immediately accustom the puppy to give to wipe his eyes swab moistened with rather weak tea, their ears with cotton flagellum at the end of matches, moistened with alcohol and pressed boron.
For the first time a puppy claws trimmed in 4-5 days, then at intervals of 5-10 days. With two months after vaccination puppy to walk on the street and running on asphalt and hard ground, he grind his claws myself. But in a villa in the village of loose soil claws can grow out too and have a puppy and adult dogs. Cold in winter, when walking less, claws, too, require human intervention with the help of scissors or tweezers. Old, slow-moving dogs can not whittle down its claws to the desired length. To do this you take the forceps or scissors, put the dog on his knees before a table with a table lamp included. Left hand you raise your leg to the level of the lamp and put her finger in a convenient position for trimming claws. Light the lamp can see the blood vessels in the "body" claws, retreating 2 mm can safely cut.
Of course, there need skill and calm the dog's behavior. Skill will, if you cut the nails regularly from two months, and the dog gets used to a relaxed view of this procedure.