http://the-golden-retriever.com/grooming-your-golden-retriever.html The Owner's Manual For The Golden Retriever Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://the-golden-retriever.com/grooming-your-golden-retriever.html/comment-page-1#comment-834 Admin Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:36:48 +0000 http://the-golden-retriever.com/?p=209#comment-834 Grooming a Golden Retriever is not something everyone is good at, including many dog salons. You will need to either ask the grooming salon you take your golden to, if they know how to properly groom and trim a golden retriever. Another option is to do it yourself. If you keep up with it on a weekly basis, with a few minutes of brushing and trimming, you will get the hang of it quickly. Here is a link with a few helpful photos. http://the-golden-retriever.com/grooming-your-golden-retriever.html Grooming a Golden Retriever is not something everyone is good at, including many dog salons. You will need to either ask the grooming salon you take your golden to, if they know how to properly groom and trim a golden retriever. Another option is to do it yourself. If you keep up with it on a weekly basis, with a few minutes of brushing and trimming, you will get the hang of it quickly. Here is a link with a few helpful photos.
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]]> http://the-golden-retriever.com/grooming-your-golden-retriever.html/comment-page-1#comment-811 margaret Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:55:01 +0000 http://the-golden-retriever.com/?p=209#comment-811 We have our third Golden which we got through The Golden Retriever Rescue-NJ. He is a wonderful 7 year old, the best of all our dogs to date. He is extremely beautiful with heavy feathering and we have been taking him to get groomed every 4 to 6 weeks because he has a strong oder and feels really dirty. We bathed our other Goldens maybe every 3 months. Every time we take him, he comes home with horrible trim jobs. This time he came home with the feathering on the back of his front legs inconsistently trimmed back to almost nothing and all of his chest hair cut to maybe an inch. They didn't touch the rest of his body and his (pants) hind feathering looks like a skirt which actually looked beautiful last May but now just looks to long and sloppy. I am determined to learn how to correctly groom him myself and found Joanne Lastoka's tutorials more than helpful. My question is how do I trim his backside, pants, and all the long hair under his belly and around his back legs that looks like it could get urinated on. Looking forward to buying new grooming tools as soon as some of our snow melts. Thank you, Margaret at the Jersey Shore. We have our third Golden which we got through The Golden Retriever Rescue-NJ. He is a wonderful 7 year old, the best of all our dogs to date. He is extremely beautiful with heavy feathering and we have been taking him to get groomed every 4 to 6 weeks because he has a strong oder and feels really dirty. We bathed our other Goldens maybe every 3 months. Every time we take him, he comes home with horrible trim jobs. This time he came home with the feathering on the back of his front legs inconsistently trimmed back to almost nothing and all of his chest hair cut to maybe an inch. They didn’t touch the rest of his body and his (pants) hind feathering looks like a skirt which actually looked beautiful last May but now just looks to long and sloppy. I am determined to learn how to correctly groom him myself and found Joanne Lastoka’s tutorials more than helpful. My question is how do I trim his backside, pants, and all the long hair under his belly and around his back legs that looks like it could get urinated on. Looking forward to buying new grooming tools as soon as some of our snow melts. Thank you, Margaret at the Jersey Shore.

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