POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming?

• 04-17-2009 10:40 AM

  rwbeagles Joined on 09-10-2007 DFW, TX Posts 18,379 Points 2,300

  POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact Just a session with a brush/comb...not nails or teeth or ears... How does your dog feel about grooming? Do tell! Is that a brush? GET AWAY FROM ME!!! (11.9%) Oh a comb, whee!...let me get my magazine and eye-mask...be right back! (34.3%) Oh a brush, fine...but hurry up already I have OTHER things to do! (43.3%) You don't know...someone else does it. (3%) You don't know, you've never groomed them...they don't need it. (7.5%) Total Votes: 67 "I'm not looking for absolution, forgiveness for the things I do.."-Walking In My Shoes, Depeche Mode My blog: ryngwrayth.blogspot.com/

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• 04-17-2009 11:02 AM

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  4HAND Joined on 05-28-2008 Posts 596 Points 35	Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact Not sure if I should vote multiple times but Turbo and Jewel dislike being brushed even with the gentlest tools.Oddly Jewel loves to have her ears cleaned though.  Noel loves to have all the amenities. Tena
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• 04-17-2009 11:57 AM

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  marlania Joined on 09-10-2007 South Louisiana Posts 2,302 Points 85	Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact Tar and Brown just need regular brushing, and they're fine with this. Now, they will hide their faces for a nail trim, but they're just weenies. Grey goes to the groomer, and he loves it. Can I have my 4000-something posts back? Pretty please?
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• 04-17-2009 12:30 PM

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  micksmom Joined on 09-10-2007 Warren Co, NJ Posts 2,380 Points 200

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact I picked the second option, but that really doesn't describe Caleb's reaction.  His is more like- "You're gonna brush me?  YIPPEE!  Hurry up, Come on, let's go."  He used to leap onto the grooming table before I could stop him.  He hasn't done that since the time he couldn't stop and slid off the other side (I caught him before he hit the ground).  Now he either runs up the ramp (if I set it up), or puts his front feet on the leg support so I can lift him. All the Angels were busy so they sent me Caleb instead.

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• 04-17-2009 12:55 PM

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  Benedict Joined on 05-30-2006 England Posts 6,613 Points 870

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact  Lu's perfectly happy to be brushed as long as I allow him the occasional chomp on the brush handle LOL.  I know you didn't ask about nails but he is downright weird about those.  I armed myself with good treats and got him on my lap the other day to trim his nails for the first time.  He didn't even really need/want the treats, just lay there letting me do it.  He got a nice belly rub (his favourite) for that afterwards LOL. Ben gets really excited about grooming, and will ask to be groomed by staring at the place I keep the equipment.   Kate - Dog.community Administrator Jokers to the right. www.lumosmaremma.com - a dog blog about raising a Maremma in a city.

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• 04-17-2009 6:41 PM

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  spiritdogs Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 11,726 Points 1,020

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact  Sioux is a diva and loves the whole thing, except if the water is too warm or too cold.  Sequoyah likes it, except won't tolerate a force dryer AT ALL.  I think she considers it as if it were an invisible recalcitrant cow.  Fergie used to be very, very good, but now is a bit of a *%# - can't blame her at her age, I guess.  Maska? Comfort freak - loves that hound glove. Regional Director for Massachusetts, International Positive Dog Training Association Director, SeniorCare Pawsitive Connections Program AKC CGC Evaluator #3669 Therapy Dogs, Inc. Tester/Observer Sioux, CGC, TDInc. Maska, CGC, TDInc. Sequoyah, CGC Fergie, Retired Lap Dog, Age 20 1/2 Dancer, CGC, TDInc. (1989-2006) #1 Heart Dog In memory of Mike, please become an organ donor today. "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." - Chief Dan George "The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be." ~ Konrad Lorenz

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• 04-17-2009 7:22 PM

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  jennie_c_d Joined on 09-10-2007 Southeast Georgia Posts 11,083 Points 265	Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact  Just the brush/comb is GREAT! They love it. Both stand nicely for everything else, but resent it, and flip you doggy birds. Today, Ena threatened to move in with her trainer. I used a different tool than usual, and she was not pleased.
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• 04-17-2009 9:40 PM

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  kle1986 Joined on 10-22-2007 KY Posts 3,488 Points 915	Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact Cheyanne isnt a touchy dog so she doesnt care too much for brushing.  Lillie loves it! Well I think she does. Fynn loves his head brushed. He leans into the brush. Joker RUNS away. He hates it. But it all my fault. I brush burned him and now he hates the site of the brush.    Kimberly
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• 04-17-2009 9:52 PM

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  willowchow Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 8,136 Points 445	Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact That, hurry up I've got other things to do describes Willow perfectly.  She's very tolerant and fine with it but if it starts taking too long she starts getting antsy.
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• 04-17-2009 10:30 PM

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  BEVOLASVEGAS Joined on 07-10-2006 Texas Posts 7,934 Points 940	Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact We used to have a brush, but I haven't seen it in quite some time.  Luckily, none of my guys really need to be brushed, so it's no big deal. They do love to have their nails & ears done though! Amanda
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• 04-17-2009 11:48 PM

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  BlackLabbie Joined on 01-28-2008 South of Boston Posts 3,045 Points 250

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact Apollo could care less about being brushed or bathed or getting his nails clipped. I usually brush and bath him, but I get his nails clipped at the groomers. They're so thick; I have trouble doing it. Ears aren't a problem either. Patty LOVES getting brushed, blow dried, buzzed, groomed, clipped, etc. I can groom (bath, blow, buzz down, nails clipped) her or if I have the time/money she will go to a groomer. Molson....he's fine until the clippers go near his feet. Then he stiffens up and will try to pull his paws away, then he gets restless. But no nipping/biting at all, just nerves. Because of that I always bring him to the groomers. -Stephanie blacklabbie.weebly.com Apollo- black Labrador Retriever Molson- buff American Cocker Spaniel Patty- black American Cocker Spaniel

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• 04-18-2009 9:13 PM

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  kpwlee Joined on 06-17-2006 North Carolina Posts 6,428 Points 535

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact  well if a rubber bath mit qualifies as a brush - he tolerates it he tolerates baths (and very politely waits until instructed to 'shake') and he tolerates his nails - although when he sees the dremel he immediately gets excited and touches it because if he touches it he gets a treat LOL Its all downhill from there It is a very good thing he doesn't need brushing because other than the rubber mit and he deems it torture

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• 04-18-2009 10:01 PM

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  CoBuHe Joined on 08-03-2007 Southeast Texas Posts 2,536 Points 85

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact Buddy loves a good brushing...always has.  He sees the brush and he lines right up.  Me! Me! Me first! I started Heidi off at a very early age...gentle brushing and massaging while she was eating...killed two birds with one stone.  She enjoyed the feeling of the gentle brush; and it helped her to learn to be touched while eating.  As she got a bit older we would have a brushing session.  Buddy first and she would just sit there and watch.  Then it would be her turn.  At first, it was nah, I really don't like that, I gotta go now.  But she learned that mama always won that game; and she progressed to tolerating it.  Now, she will tolerate it nicely and patiently let me get through it.  Then she gets a nice ball toss. Bruder tolerates it nicely...but he too would rather be doing something else.  But, boy he cleans up nice. I know they all feel better afterwards, they must!  "No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich." Louis Sabin ________________________ Barbara, Proudly owned by

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• 04-20-2009 11:52 AM

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  JackieG Joined on 04-15-2008 Central Texas Posts 5,920 Points 710

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact Rex and Belle love to be brushed and will shove each other out of the way to get their turn.  Twister, he doesn't seem to have a strong opinion one way or the other about getting brushed, it's just another of those human activities that he tolerates good naturedly until something better comes along. lol  Of course, none of this was left to chance with any of the dogs.  Brush = treats, same with nails, ears, bath time.

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• 04-22-2009 9:58 PM

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  Indy05 Joined on 06-19-2007 Texas Posts 366 Points 0

  Re: POLL: How does your dog feel about grooming? Reply Contact me:  Let's do grooming.  Time for grooming. cairn: OK, mom. (Plods to me.  Stands in front of me.) me:  Lay down. (I gently pull him down.) cairn: I know what to do. (Flops on side.) me: This is soooo good to do grooming.  You are soooo  cuuuuuute. (brushing and brushing) cairn: Be sure to scratch my neck where that silly collar is, scratch my belly, my knees, and the base of my tail.  I have a hard time relieving my itchies there.  me: (obliging) cairn:  Aaaaahhhhhhh. (licking lips) That's sooooooo good, Mom.  Don bother grooming anywhere else. me: (grooming rest of body) Be still; lay down. cairn:  See ya.  Gotta show that squirrel whose yard this is!  (dashes merrily away)

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