We’re going to start with the back leg, you want to comb right out, make sure there is not a single tag or nut or anything that you’ve been through it with a slicker brush. You’ve combed it through with the curler, I bet they are going to be straight and hanging down, push everything down. That when you lift up the leg, just come over to the side, you lift up the leg and we’re just going to remove the hair from the bottom of the tab and I’m using the big scissors now because I’m going to take off just roughly take off quite a bit of the hair from around the pad.
Now what I do is I follow the contour of the pad, the pad is naturally slightly curved and we just follow that around the edge of the foot. I don’t worry too much if its—if it doesn’t have perfect precision around each pad, you just want to make sure that the excess wears off, we’ll work around and we’ll just follow it around. And then you don’t want too much hair at the fronts of the toe, so just trim around from it, so that you’ve taken any excess hair off. You know you’re leaving a bit of space from the nail, you don’t want it too close from the nail, you don’t want the nail to be showing. So we clean those all up, we cleaned it round, taking any little excess bits off from around the side. Don’t bother about too much of this stage, just trim it around.
Now were going to get the work done as far as off the table and now we want them standing as though he was in a show pose. All this hair backed down, straight as possible and then we’re going to make the first coat, the first coat is the worst coat and I’m using the little scissors now because its more precision work. I look above the coat and we don’t want anything sticking too far out the side. So I’m going to just work my way and then snip that out, that’s the most important and if you go crazy there, you set the standard as if it were for the rest of the foot because you’re going to work your way down towards the floor. Moving inclining as you go ahead, keep brushing the hair down, just so you know how much your brush it down the next time you comb it. Its going to be a few more stick hence the dog is so that the hair is hanging naturally.
And you’re just going to cut around, now to clean for the side when there is a red car way now around the back. We’re going to bring it around so we can just see what I do, just cut in a circle in the edge of the foot and were going to work around again, this dog got a very straight coat is wonderful. It got a wavy coat or even worse if you got a curly coat then this legs are quite hard to do. now if you have a curly coat you should be able to showing it and that’s roughly the puppy trend. Now the wavy coat is acceptable but it just means that you cant quite get the finish on the legs, nothing you can do about that. you must blow dry this coat as straight as you possible can and when you bath in them and you start to blow dry. You must make sure that before you start trimming then the hair is completely dry and then you see we got this little bit on them, we got this around the stifle hanging too low and that is too much. We don’t want that hair touching the ground, so make sure its well brushed, you are going to come back round again.
I’m just going to cut the ground with the scissors at an angle, so you’re not cutting with the flat and you’re cutting an angle around the coat. Must have been a little bit difficult, just around there, following the line of the stifle and that’s of that leg. Right, we finished the back leg now and at the moment this coat is just hanging like a curtain, just hanging like a curtain right the way along and we don’t want that really because again its not giving you that streamline and now that look is taken away by the elegance of the dog. So we want to bring that up in a bit of an angle to meet that. I want to grate the ear off because this dog already got a bit of clearance on this coat. Mark it through, were going to use the big scissors just to take some of this stuff from underneath. We’re going to start the front feet now and when we do the front feet we are actually going to cut up the back to meet that and again everything—I cant tell you everything is symmetrical. Everything just needs to flow and enhance the elegance of the dog and everything down. And then I like to bring up the leg behind him like that because you will find that your into hair so much if you have just done that.
You do actually want to get rid of that hair quite sure, you have to very careful that you just take it off. Just only a little bit, about a half inch behind there, just when you start to trim that bit sticks down, quite difficult to trim on the table. Make sure his really standing on his toes now because this is again, its quite crucial, its that coat again and then I’m just going to stand it to do it because I like to when I’m cutting that first cut I like to stand above the dog. And then I’m just going to—we wont be going around but not too much, now. So we’re giving ourselves some map to go now from which we are going to trim the rest of the foot.
And then we’re just going to follow that, again as we go around we’re going to incline the scissor strokes towards the path as we get closer to the floor. So we’re doing it from the top and working down and then and when we come from doing the inside. You go lift the leg up and just follow that line around, inside of this leg, were not going to go again, not quite important, you cant see it. You are going to be needing some time to see that you’re ensured in with little bits of hair sticking down. Keep straitening out the hair if its over the to serves to obscure what you’re doing. I find—I used to trim this fee with big scissors but this little scissors are finely—you can just get that little bit of extra precision with them and also its quite important that they’ve got a serrated edge because you cant afford for the hair to sort of move down the blade as you cut a new one. You just want it stay where is it and if this is a serrated edge it just grabs it a little bit easier.
Now there we go, there is the dog.
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