All About The Dog Mobile Dog Salon |
All About The Dog, LLC Mobile Dog Grooming |
![]() | Not getting groomed on a regular basis. Dogs with longer | |
coats (shih tzu, maltese, yorkie, etc) should be groomed every 4 – 8 weeks, depending on their coats. | ||
![]() | Not being brushed on a regular basis. Dogs with longer coats | |
should be brushed daily, first with a slicker brush, then gone over with a comb to make sure no knots are missed and also to make sure the hair is brushed to the skin, not just the top of the coat. | ||
![]() | Not brushing a dog before and after a bath at home. If you | |
bathe your dog in between grooms and do not brush before and/or after the bath their hair will get tangled each time, worse and worse. Unlike human hair, when you wash a matted or severely knotted dog the water will only set the mats and make them tighter and harder to get out. Its very important to make sure your dog is knot-free before and after baths at home. |
![]() | Mats can not be cut out with scissors. Doing this is very | |
dangerous. Depending on how tight and close to the skin the mats are, there would be a great risk of cutting your dogs skin. | ||
![]() | Clipper blades can not cut through the mats. Blades on the | |
clippers can only cut under the mats, where there is a gap between the skin and the mat itself. |
![]() | The skin can be red and raw looking. This is from the hair | |
pulling on the dogs skin for so long. | ||
![]() | There can be scratches. This is from the dog scratching at | |
the mats because they were irritating him. | ||
![]() | If your dog has been matted for a long period of time there | |
can be sores and other unexpected problems with the skin. This could be caused by the skin not being able to breath and moisture being trapped under the matted hair. | ||
![]() | If the ears are severely matted and need to be shaved, | |
sometimes the dog can get a hematoma. This happens when a dogs ear is very matted and has lost feeling in their ear (almost like when your leg falls asleep). Then when the matting is removed they repeatedly shake their head because the feeling is coming back to their ear. Sometimes when the mat is very tight, the ear will start to bleed. This happens because the dog is shaking their head because it feels funny to them and the feeling is starting to come back as well as the blood flow. The force of the dogs ears shaking can push blood to the tips of the dogs ears making them bleed. |
![]() | Brushing your dog and getting them groomed on a | |
regular basis is very important to their general health and happiness. It's suggested that your dog be groomed every 4 – 6 weeks depending on their coat type. | ||
![]() | We will not attempt to demat a severely matted dog. | |
It's not safe and we will never do anything that may cause harm to your dog. We want every grooming session to be a positive experience. | ||
![]() | Each grooming appointment is expected to take | |
approximately one hour (depending on the breed). If your appointment takes longer due to the matting there will be an extra fee incurred for the longer appointment. |
"A dog wags its tail with its heart." - Martin Buxbaum |