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Grooming
I have a question for all of you out there who have gotten there doodles groomed. I had taken Willow to get her first haircut yesterday, she is 6 months old and has a shaggy coat. I love her coat and thinks it makes her look so cute. Well yesterday I took her to get groomed and I told the woman to cut only 1/2 and inch off, instead she buzzed her whole body and only left 1/2 and inch of fur! I was in shock and now I am worried her hair is going to grow back totally different. I also felt so bad considering it also felt like -8 degrees in PA yesterday. Anyway, did anyone have an experience like this? If so what did you do to make sure it didn't happen again? By the way I also showed her a picture of what I wanted. Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by JANET YOUNG on
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What do most groomers charge for grooming? My groomer charges alot and I was going to ask about an average price. I live in Austin, Texas.
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Permalink Reply by Kelly & Zoe on
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I live near San Francisco (in the burbs in the east bay) and groomers charge A LOT. Cheapest I've had was 75, but I'm actually thinking of going with another groomer who's been highly recommended and they charge 90. Crazy expensive - I don't even spend that much on own hair....
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Permalink Reply by Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau on
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Janet ~ I live in Washington state a small community of about 300,000. My groomer charges $85, plus I tip 20% and that puts it at $102 for each of my boys! I like the way my groomer grooms them and they love her, so that makes it worth it to me. I wish I could do it myself, but I am just not that brave.
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Permalink Reply by Debb, Lucy & Oscar on
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I live in the Portland, OR area and my professional groomer charges $67 for a large, standard doodle. She was the best groomer I could find in our area and one of the least expensive, too. Still, with 2 doodles it was $150-$160 (including tip) every 6 weeks... and the main reason for me learning to groom them myself! Now I understand why groomers charge as much as they do. It takes hours and a lot of work to do a good job.
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We bought (top of the line expensive) shears and did Zoe's first groom ourselves - we butchered her! She didn't care :-) Then we had her professionally groomed by a groomer who typically does poodles, and she came out too poodle-y for our tastes. I think eventually we'll end up groom her ourselves, but it's hard to do a good job as a novice, and we don't really have any practice subjects :-) We're going to let her grow out, then try a different groomer - perhaps if we get a groom we like, we can 'maintain' it ourselves.
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I'm not sure why I hadn't seen your msg. sooner, Kelly. Anyway, in regards to doing your own clipper cuts, the best advice I can give is to watch a doodle grooming video. I'll include a link to the one I watched (several times!) and used it as guide. I always do my doodles' legs with the clipper (the video shows her hand scissoring the doodle's legs). Both of mine have very curly coats (Lucy's is wooly), making clipper cutting their legs pretty easy. Here's the video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu9i6FJKE44
The other thing I can suggest, is to not expect perfection the first few times you do a groom. Its a learning process. Hair grows. Eventually, if you stick with it you'll find it gets easier and easier and you'll come to know (through trial and error) how to get that perfect look you want. If you need more tips on clipper cutting, tools necessary or the bathing and blow out process let me know... I'm happy to help!
Ok, after typing all that, I just realized that maybe you aren't interested in doing clipper cuts since you reference your new, expensive shears. But looking at your photos of Zoe, it looks as though she has a similar coat as my Oscar. I wouldn't even attempt doing a full body scissor cut on him. Clippers, with comb attachments, make the grooming process so much faster and easier.
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Thanks for the link! Yeah, Zoe's adult coat is coming in - wooly. We bought comb attachments (after the first initial groom) so next time we'll try those. I don't think we coul do a full body scissor cut - there's no way she'd stay calm for that :-)
What do you usually do for the face? Do you attempt *not* to cut the whiskers but leave long-ish and just trim around the eyes? We just weren't sure there so she looked sort of goofy when we trimmed around the eyes.
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I take it by 'whiskers' you mean beard? In the video I don't think the professional groomer touches the beard, but I personally like to thin it out with the longest comb attachment, used lightly, meaning I pull the hair through the comb but I don't press it all the way to the skin. I learned that even with the longest comb attachment in my kit (1") its still not long enough to give the look I want. Much too short for me, so I give it a light once over with that longest comb. I have ordered an even longer comb attachment (1-1/4") and am hoping I can use that like I do the rest of the body... all the way down to the skin. Another thing I do differently from the video (well, there's several) is I cut the ears much longer, more like chin length. Its just my preference, and don't do nearly as much scissor work on the head. I think it takes a whole lot of experience with shears to work as quickly as that groomer does in the video. Instead, I use comb attachments for all of the face except the eyes. Those I trim with scissors, as well as the beard along the mouth line and the bridge of the nose. I work on eyes about once a week, as it seems that hair, particularly on Oscar, grows really really fast, and I like to see his beautiful eyes :-)
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Actually, I was referring to those stiff hairs that (i had to look this up http://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/happens-dogs-whiskers-snipped-1921.html) are called vibrissae. They apparently perform a sensory function. Do you attempt to not cut those? I guess I was a little (naively) surprised when Zoe came back from the groomer (I did instruct her to trim the face short) that they were completely lopped off. When we tried to groom her ourselves, we did our best to avoid cutting them. Do dogs miss out on something when these are cut?
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Interesting... I don't see these whiskers on either of my doodles. They have pretty thick beards and even on close inspection I don't find whiskers. You've got my curiosity piqued now... off to look it up for 'doodles'!
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I did a search on DK and came up with this discussion on whiskers:
http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/does-your-doodle-have-whis...
Apparently some doodles have them, and some don't.
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