How to cut a shih-tzu

How to cut a shih-tzu

Shih-tzu – small, mobile, friendly doggies which think of the owner most much. Such doggies are allocated with special intelligence and self-respect. Hair of a shih-tzu dense, direct, with a good underfur, falling down down. She demands a special care and is the main decoration of a small doggie. Many people, bringing such charming pet, do not know how it is correct to look after his fur coat. Most of owners spend considerable money, visiting special salons for an animal hairstyle, but it is possible to cut a shih-tzu independently in house conditions.

It is required to you

  • the machine for a hairstyle and scissors

Instruction

1. Prepare an animal for a hairstyle and prepare special scissors and the machine for a hairstyle which can be got in veterinary shop. Cut hair of each ear on diagonal so that the imagined line was drawn from the middle of a breast of an animal to the level of an elbow joint.

2. Cut smoothly a beard and the pet's mustache. The biggest wool at the same time has to be proportional 1/3 lengths of an ear.

3. Pass to a wool hairstyle on an animal head. For this purpose cut wool on the head in the form of the put-on beret, having left at the same time eyes open. Do by means of the machine from a nape to a tail a wide strip, having made a short hair. Turn a doggie and put it in a profile.

4. Begin to cut a trunk of an animal. From the beginning of a neck to a foot of front pads tonsure an animal the machine that in the end result her breast reminded a wide flat arch.

5. Cut wool from a breast to a groin to a half of front pads and to the groin do it shorter so that some kind of short skirt was formed.

6. Cut wool shortly on each side, having made at the same time smooth transitions to a short skirt and to wool which is located on a breast.

7. Profile a hair. Tonsure wool on hinder legs from a groin to a half of their height, and later on the rounded-off line down on a bevel.

8. Tonsure the back surface of pads in a straight line from a sciatic hillock and down, then side and inside of pads equal columns.

9. Cut accurately by means of scissors wool around a tail, having left the small length that it was in harmony with the general hairstyle of the pet on the tip.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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