Can you recommend a good and QUIET clipper, as you know dogs are frightened of the sound of these! I got to relate to that though,!Can you imagine something that loud with moving teeth coming at your head? Poor things no wonder that they are scared!
2008-09-12T12:03:51Z
Fox after my Maltese chews out your rear , then we can talk about your bad nerves!
2008-09-12T12:05:20Z
PG thanks for your very helpful suggestion!
2008-09-12T12:49:12Z
Dreamer my animals always go to a groomer and never heard of 10 to 12 week old puppies going to a groomer that young! Why do they have to (get used to it) sounds like they are kind of freaked out as you put it before they are used to it) I have never used clippers on my animals! I know it does scare them! Marti thanks for your comment about the Andis Clippers!
Anonymous2008-09-12T12:18:15Z
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PG has a really good suggestion. Let me just add that Andis clippers are the quietest of any I have found. They are also built to be easy on your hands and the casing doesn't break every time I drop mine!
I am a professional groomer. I have never had a dog that didn't get used to regular clippers. I don't know what you've done to your dogs to make them freaked out by simple hair clippers, but it sounds like more of a problem with you than your dogs. I groom 10-12 week old puppies and other than a little curiosity, they adjust to the clippers within one session. Just like the adjust to the nail Dremel, which is even louder, the force dryer, the cage dryer, etc. Loud noises are part of grooming, if you were teaching them properly how to be groomed they would not be afraid.
Edit: You're not even making sense any more. If the dogs aren't scared, they don't need a quiet clipper, if they are scared, someone is doing something wrong. And yes, puppies should be groomed as young as possible so that they DO get used to grooming and don't end up scared of everything. Most dogs are NOT frightened of clippers, either your dogs are overly fearful for whatever reasons, or else YOU are just overly paranoid. Either way, you make no sense at all.
Instead of focusing on getting the quietest clipper out there (which is all find and dandy until somebody else has to groom the dog and doesn't have that), why not get them used to the sound of clippers? Have the clippers turned off and on your grooming table, and when your dog goes and sniffs it, give it a treat (if it won't sniff at it on it's own, put a treat on it). Progress to touching the dog with the clipper (while the clipper is off), and giving a treat every time you do that. Then, turn the clipper on and set it on the table. When your dog sniffs it, give it a treat. Repeat several times (the vibrations + noise are scary). Then, touch the dog with the clipper (the non-cutting side of the head of it), and reward.
The goal is to get the dog associating clipper with treat, to the point that the noise and vibration don't bother it. As far as brands... Wahl and Oster both make very good clippers, but the exact one (and blade(s)) will depend on the breed you have.
I'm no longer the groomer, but my step-daughter is and i know enough to provide you with SOME suggestions. 1) when you have under no circumstances been there earlier than, the groomer would not recognize your canine, and possibly concerned that a stressed canine would attack her. My SD has had 2 recent bites from new dogs who had dangerous attitude problems she was no longer warned of. At the same time i will be able to fully grasp her distress along with his fidgeting, and in all likelihood stressful that he might misbehave, it is still now not productive to speak angrily to the canine. This may intent issues with the dog. She would were really pressed for time that day, nevertheless it nonetheless doesn't excuse being angry with the dog. The dog's obviously nervous. 2) it's unfortunate that he fell, but that might now not have occurred if she hadn't been so angry at the canine. The "noose" is critical. Dog's most commonly do not take good to nail clipping, esp if the proprietor in no way realized how foremost it is to play with the canine's paws and pads when the dog used to be a pup. That will have made the canine used to this style of dealing with and the dog could be less terrified of beauty treatment hence. This was once your job which I don't know in case you did when the dog was a pup. The canine is put on this leash ("noose") to let it know it's beneath the handler's manipulate. There will have to be facets to the table, or some thing to make it harder for puppies to fall off the table, however it could possibly occur at times, and the groomer must be rapid to capture the canine. There may be less risk of snapping his neck, and more threat of suffocation or severe distress to the esophagus. 3) This could not have occurred if the groomer had been more sufferer, but it's not as unusual as you think, as most men and women don't realize the importance of taking part in with their puppies' paws and pads to get them used to accepting nail cropping. It is not all that natural, nor is it all that abnormal for this to occur. It is good that you're not going back there. You can be way more relaxed elsewhere. However let me provide you with some recommendations. 1) take time to play together with your dog's paws and pads to get him more secure with nail cutting. 2) talk to the owner of the store in question (once you are earlier the angry stage) flippantly, except the owner was once the groomer. The groomer made some errors that must be labored on... Impatience and anger with the dog for the most phase. Three) if the owner used to be now not the groomer, that you would be able to both go to one more groomer there (if the owner's response to your complaint is optimistic) OR go somewhere else, as you now intend to do. Good luck ... And i'm hoping which you could get your canine calmer about having his paws treated. My male pyr (eighty five#) requires 2 persons for nail filing now, in view that I made a mistake and clipped to a ways and clipped far ample to make him bleed, so I harm him. NOW i've problems trimming his nails which I didn't have earlier than.