The First Steps to Grooming Your Dog's Legs

Now this dog hasn't been brushed in a week, so his hair has a couple of little matted areas. Here's one right back here so this is a tender soft area back here behind the leg. You want to be careful while you are brushing. You've got some mat, here's...

So I am just working right through the coat getting all the matted areas out. So we go over the matted area and the length of coat here We can actually see the mat. So again, I am going to hold the length here, hold it so that I am not pulling the dog...

So working on the torso of the dog, the main part of the dog is the trunk, body going from behind the front leg to front of the back leg and we want to do one section of the dog at a time. So we would be going from the top line, the back down to the...

So the final part we're going to talk about in terms of at-home maintenance for your coated dog is the neck area. The neck area can be troublesome, the area starting behind the ears, coming down the neck of the dog. Identify - here's the dogs head, here...

So if you come across a mat, how do you get that mat out without breaking and loosing coat? Let's see if I can demonstrate this with you. I'll find a mat on this dog. One of the easiest ways to find a mat is to use your comb. So I've got a mat right here...