Training Can Benefit Your Dog for Grooming

If you are getting your dog groomed, groomers will always appreciate when a dog has a good training foundation.

When your dog has been properly trained, it helps a grooming session be successful and it also helps dog owners be happier with the end result of their dog’s grooming.

When a dog is groomed, the purpose of the hair cut they receive is not only to make them look cute, but also to benefit their health in ways that a dog would not be able to understand. Dog grooming is important for maintaining your dog’s hygiene, preventing infections, promoting a healthy coat, and detecting skin issues. The best way to get your dog comfortable while being groomed is to help them get used to behaving while being groomed at home, and understanding that being groomed is a positive experience, rather than a stressful one.

At home, it is important to train your dog by letting them get used to the feeling of being groomed by touching the parts of them that would be handled at the groomers, such as their ears, paws, nails, mouth and sanitary area. When your dog responds in a calm way, you can give them a treat so that they learn that calm behavior is ideal during a grooming session.

Groomers often come up to greet clients and their dogs at drop off in order to instill happy and trusting feelings for the grooming experience to come. For new dogs, it is important for a groomer to speak with the dogs’ owner about their previous grooming experiences to get a better idea of the dogs’ temperament and how comfortable they are with being groomed/handled.

We recommend starting grooming early for puppies—as soon as they have their rabies shots and you feel that they are ready. A Puppy Intro grooming service is perfect for a puppy’s first grooming because it is a relaxed introduction into grooming. A groomer can only do as much as the puppy will allow them to, and their top priority is to make sure that a new puppy leave with a great first impression of grooming.