Refining Dog Grooming Manners

Some dogs are well-mannered during grooming, while others can be the nicest dog before grooming and transform into the most difficult dog you’ll ever face while grooming. However, you can train any dog to have the best manners while grooming, but this does not happen overnight. You need to familiarize your dog with the processes involved in keeping her clean and free from infections and injuries.

Dogs require a firm hand to refine their grooming manners, so they can be used to the idea of being cleaned, brushed and groomed. After a while, you dogs may come to enjoy the grooming process as they see this as a time to bond with you and we all know how dogs love the attention, right?

The most common problem dog owners face is introducing their dogs to grooming during worst situations, such as having mats in their hair, when they’re very dirty, when they need to get their toenails clipped and other instances. Dogs struggle because you haven’t done it before, so they don’t like having their feet and coat touched.

The most effective way to refine your dog’s grooming manner is to make the experience as pleasant as possible. If they find the experience to be traumatic, it will only become more difficult for you to clean your dogs. It is always ideal to instill good grooming manners with you dog while she’s a puppy because younger dogs are open to new things, giving you enough time to build up good experiences while she’s willing to learn. As long as you are gentle with the entire grooming process, she’s more likely to accept that grooming is part of your routine. If she endured bad experiences while grooming, you can always retrain her to get used to it again.

Training your dog to deal with grooming doesn’t take much time - even several minutes a day will do. Make sure to give her a treat once you’re done grooming her, so your dog understands that allowing you to hold her will be rewarded.脗聽 Find out How to use Positive Reinforcement to Train Your Dog.