American cocker spaniel - a beautiful graceful dog with long silky wool. However it is necessary to remember that the wool giving such identity and a charm to shape of a spaniel requires permanent care. It is very desirable that the hairstyle of an animal was carried out by the professional groomer. But if your dog does not participate in exhibitions and you are not afraid of experiments, it is possible to try to make a signature hairstyle of a cocker spaniel by own efforts.
It is required to you
- - hairdresser's scissors;
- - thinning shears;
- - sliker;
- - electric machine;
- - metal hairbrush;
- - massage hairbrush;
- - trimmingovochny knife;
- - terry towel.
Instruction
1. Tonsure by means of scissors the felted wool around paws and ears.
2. Wash up and accurately comb a cocker spaniel. In the beginning dry wool by means of a terry towel. Then carefully dry up the hair dryer. Comb a hairbrush with frequent teeths and make sure that there is no koltun left.
3. Process to an ushisnimita wool from outer side of an ear by means of the machine for a hairstyle. It is recommended to begin a hairstyle, having receded about 6 cm from the ear basis. Remove wool from the chosen point to the cranial arch. Accurately straighten the wool which remained on the head with thinning shears. You watch to leaving "step". Remove the sheared wool by means of a massage brush. Shear wool from the inside of ears. It is necessary to shear it all from the top half of ears. Tonsure the head and cheeks of a spaniel.
4. Tonsure wool on a throat. At the same time the machine has to move from below up, against wool.
5. Process a muzzle of a dog by means of thinning shears. By means of the machine, moving from a tip of a nose of a dog, accurately shear wool on a nose bridge. Carefully process wool on transition from a nose bridge to superciliary arches. You hold a finger between an edge of the machine and an eye of a dog accidentally not to injure eyes. On a nose bridge and under eyes wool should be cut off very shortly. Remove surplus of wool on eyebrows by means of thinning shears. Truncate eyelashes. Accurately remove wool from a back part of a skull towards a nape. Straighten all with thinning shears.
6. Remove hair a spaniel on each side. It is necessary to know that this processing always has to be carried out strictly on the hair growth of an animal. Walk a trimmingovy knife without shaving edge on a back of a cocker spaniel, in the direction from a neck to a tail. Wool on a back should not be longer than 3-5 cm.
7. Carefully comb legs of an animal. Obstrigite wool around small pillows. Straighten it below that it did not reach a floor a little. Direct scissors, holding them at an angle in 45 degrees, remove layer by layer wool on paws. Paws of an American cocker spaniel have to have the form of a bell.
8. Process the lower part of a tail of a cocker by means of the machine. Remove wool about an anus by means of thinning shears. Process the top part of a tail, having given it the wedge-shaped form.
9. Attentively inspect "creation" and correct all shortcomings by means of hairdressing salons and thinning shears.