Grooming Your Dog
Grooming Weimaraner Puppies

Grooming your dog starts the minute you bring her home. Whether you are grooming your own dog or you use a professional dog groomer, you need to get your new Weimaraner used to simple puppy grooming activities.

Handling new puppies and getting them used to being touched gets dogs ready for dog grooming. And you can’t start too early.

Grooming dogs is more than just taking your Weim to the professional groomer. Because pet grooming is an ongoing activity, every dog owner has to do some simple grooming activities at home...

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Tips for Puppy Grooming

• Handle your puppy - and touch him. Get him used to having you touch his paws, his head, his ears and his stomach. Touching him will become a normal activity--not something to be afraid of.

  This is called desensitization. It simply means that your puppy will get used to being handled by people--and will accept it. Whether the groomer, you, or a small child who is a little rough!

• Brush your Weimaraner puppy - Hold him in your lap and brush him. He will probably wiggle and squirm, at first. Don’t stop. Brush him gently until you’ve brushed half of him. Then, end the session with a (very soft) brushing on his tummy or a firmer brushing, just behind his ears (an itchy place for many dogs).

  As your Weim grows, place a blanket on the floor, and sit next to him. Weimaraner puppies grow fast! Your puppy will soon be too big for your lap!

  With large dogs like Weimaraners, grooming your dog is most easily done on the floor (unless you have a special dog grooming table).

• Get ready for dog clippers - Get your puppy used to vibrations and sound by taking a household object (like an electric shaver) and touching your puppy briefly in very short sessions. Your puppy will get used to the vibrations and sound (like dog clippers) and won’t be as frightened when approached by the pet groomer (or you).

• Flipping your puppy - Many dogs are frightened when they are lying down and someone flips them to the opposite side. Practice doing this with your puppy when she is still small. Being able to flip her to the other side will be helpful when you groom her (or the pet groomer does), or when the veterinarian wants to see her other side.

If you will be grooming your own dog, now is the time to investigate dog grooming videos and dog grooming books so that you can learn how to groom your Weim.

Keep in mind that Weimaraners are not hard to groom, so you might just decide to do your dog grooming, yourself.

At any rate, it won’t be long before your new puppy is ready for his first dog grooming session!

That’s all there is to it! If you start getting your Weimaraner puppy used to these pre-grooming activities, your new puppy will just accept being handled by people, as being natural.

And grooming your dog will be a cinch!

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