Pomeranian Grooming

By Denise Leo

Pomeranian dog grooming by breed authority Denise Leo of Dochlaggie Pomeranians fame. Breeding & Exhibiting Best in Show winning Supreme, Grand Champion & Champion Pomeranians since 1975. Breeder/Exhibitor of 80+ Champion Pomeranians.
This grooming guidebook will demonstrate exactly how you can achieve that immaculate 'Best in Show' appearance on your own Pomeranian. Ensure you and your Pomeranian have the winning advantage at Dog Shows, or just to show off your beautiful Pomeranian to your friends and family.
Quickly learn how to effectively create the Teddy bear Pomeranian appearance for your pet Pomeranian. Discover the inside secrets and techniques that specialist Pomeranian dog groomers
tend not to share. All my 40 years of experience of Pomeranian show grooming expertise have been compressed into Pomeranian Grooming for your convenience.
Pomeranian grooming commences with the grooming fundamentals and progresses to provide guidelines on how to give your Pomeranian that Best in Show appearance.
Pomeranian Grooming includes photos, artwork and step by step grooming instructions. Contents include: Preparation, Grooming tools, Brushing guide, bathing your Pomeranian, Nail Clipping, Dental care, Blow drying a Pomeranian, Line Brushing your Pomeranian, Cleaning your Pomeranian's Teeth, Trimming Guide, Trimming the ears, body, ruff and tail areas. Show Pomeranian grooming mistakes.
How to deal with eye stains, dry skin problems, hot spots, handling mats, growing coat on your Pomeranian, choosing the correct shampoo. Feed to grow coat. Taking your Pom to the grooming salon, how to find the right groomer. Should you clip a Pomeranian and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9780992487812

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Brushing your Pomeranian

Pictured above: Pomeranian enjoying a grooming season.

The coat of a Pomeranian dog is a double coat. He has a dense undercoat that is woolly. The soft, fluffy undercoat holds the outer layer away from the body. Then there’s the outer coat which is coarse and long and covers the whole body. It’s simple to brush the outer coat so your dog looks great. However, you must also brush the undercoat to prevent it from becoming extremely matted. It’s the undercoat that demands most of your attention for this reason.

Train your Pomeranian to lay quietly on each side as well as on its back for brushing. If your Pomeranian is uncomfortable in these positions, a simple alternative is to brush the Pomeranian on your lap.

The Dochlaggie babies are taught from a very early age to accept and enjoy grooming as part of their daily routine. I start at 3 weeks gently caressing the puppy and brushing the hair forward with my hand.

At 4 to 5 weeks a small, soft bristle brush is then used to gently brush puppy’s hair forward.

Teach your Pomeranian puppy that grooming is a fun and enjoyable time. The optimum time to begin grooming a young Pomeranian is following exercising and puppy’s evening meal. In other words close to puppy’s bedtime.

When you first begin training your puppy to be groomed, start by grooming a small part of his body. For example, do his back in the morning, legs after lunch, his tummy after your dinner and, finally, his neck at night. After each session, give him a treat so he’ll respond well to future grooming sessions and you’ll gradually be able to make them last longer. Try different positions. Get him sitting sometimes and standing at other times. Then he’ll be comfortable, regardless of what position you use when grooming him.

How often should you brush?

Ideally you would brush your Pom each day, either as a form of relaxation or while watching TV. However, most people’s lives aren’t always ideal. You can still get great results if you brush your dog every second day. Avoid delaying it longer than that because it can cause major problems.

Every dog sheds hair and it must go somewhere. It may become entangled in the outer coat and cause a clump of matted hair. It may get blown down your hall. It can get onto furniture, bedding, clothes or even you. When you brush your dog, this removes and catches a lot of the shed hair and this is one very important reason for you to groom every day if you can. That will help reduce the amount of unwanted hair that goes everywhere it shouldn’t.

Pictured above: Line brushing a well-trained Pomeranian.

Pictured above: Correct way to use a slicker brush.

I apply the following 3 steps prior to either bathing or trimming my Pomeranian. Applying these steps helps to ensure there are no snags, tangles and each and every hair is separated.

Step 1 is completely brushing my Pomeranian using the line brushing technique. Line Brushing is a basic technique used to brush most long coated dog breeds.

Using a pin brush commence from the shoulders and separate the coat in a line down to the skin from shoulder to base of the tail. Brushing one layer at a time, brush from the skin out. Pay attention to the areas that matt, tangle and knot easily; behind the ears, under the front legs and the groin area.

Pictured above: Incorrect way to use a slicker brush.

Step 2 is repeating the first step using a soft slicker brush.

Step 3 is repeating step 1 using a metal comb to completely comb through the Pomeranian’s coat. A Teflon coated metal comb will make this task