Creating Great Grooming Dogs
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Creating Great Grooming Dogs is the podcast where dog grooming and dog training meet! Learn how to teach dogs to be great for grooming and other types of handling for health and comfort. Perfect for groomers, trainers, owners, and other pet professionals.
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
1w ago
Working with behavior cases should not be frustrating. If you are frustrated working on behavior cases or working with dogs and pets who have difficulty with grooming, we will troubleshoot that this week.
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Creating Great Grooming Dogs
2w ago
Does your owner know why their dog needs to be dried? Why do groomers want to dry the dog? And then what kind of drying can we do? What kind of tools and techniques do we have? And let's also discuss if dogs are really afraid of drying?
For full transcripts, go to the audio episode on CreatingGreat GroomingDogs.com
You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
You can watch episodes at youtube.com/@creatinggreatgroomingdogs
For more information about my classes, go to MasterGroomerBehaviorSpecialist.com or go to the ..read more
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
1M ago
This week we're talking about repetition. Why is repetition important to learning? Why is that something that we would want to use in dog grooming, and how can that help us in dog grooming? Find out this week.
For full transcripts, go to the audio episode on CreatingGreat GroomingDogs.com
You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
You can watch episodes at youtube.com/@creatinggreatgroomingdogs
For more information about my classes, go to MasterGroomerBehaviorSpecialist.com or go to the Whole Pet Grooming Academy ..read more
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
1M ago
This week, we'll talk about scratchboards and the dog toys designed to help you file your dog's nails or help your dog file their own nails. We'll talk about what they're good for, what they're not good for, and why your groomer might give you the hard eye roll if you say you've been using one.
Dog Nail Scratch Board File https://a.co/d/eo6mDLG
De' Vora Scratch Square Dog Nail Trimmer & File https://a.co/d/9pjlyQt
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Creating Great Grooming Dogs
2M ago
This week, we'll talk about the "it came out of nowhere" bites. Some bites happen without warning, but what can cause that? What subtle warnings might have been missed? Now, whether you're a seasoned groomer or just starting out, this episode will give you some insights and help you have a safer, more understanding work environment.
For full transcripts, go to the episode on CreatingGreat GroomingDogs.com
You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
You can watch episodes at youtube.com/@creatinggreatgroomingdogs
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Creating Great Grooming Dogs
2M ago
We'll discuss how to talk with pet owners about the importance of safety in addressing behavior issues. This may be relevant to you if you're a pet owner or if your groomer has directed you here. Sometimes, conveying the significance of safety to owners who don't fully understand its relevance in addressing behavior and safety problems can be challenging.
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Creating Great Grooming Dogs
3M ago
Why can it be so much harder when it's your own dog? What makes it so different? There are some extra steps that we need to take when it's our own dogs. We have some blind spots, and sometimes, we get in our own way. We're going to explore some of those blind spots this week.
For full transcripts, go to the episode on CreatingGreat GroomingDogs.com
You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
You can watch episodes at youtube.com/@creatinggreatgroomingdogs
For more information about my classes, go to MasterGroomerBehaviorSpec ..read more
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
4M ago
What do you do with the really difficult cases? We're going explore that this week. What do you do when a dog is really, really "bad" for grooming when we already know everything about him. We've been grooming him for years and he's just not going to get better. What do you do?
For full transcripts, go to the episode on CreatingGreat GroomingDogs.com
You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
You can watch episodes at youtube.com/@creatinggreatgroomingdogs
For more information about my classes, go to MasterGroomerBehaviorSp ..read more
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
5M ago
Together We're Better Behavior Chats!
Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Creating Great Grooming Dogs show! In this installment of "Together We're Better Behavior Chats," your host Chrissy engages in a fascinating conversation with the incredible Stephanie Zikmann from The Holistic Grooming Academy! She is the renowned author of "The Magic of Holistic Grooming" and "A Teacher's Guide to Low-Stress Grooming."
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Creating Great Grooming Dogs
6M ago
We will talk about the controversy about using meds for animals who have difficulty with grooming. There are lots of strong feelings about this. I think that many groomers refuse to work with animals that are medicated. And then there are other people who really want the animals to be medicated.
So we'll talk about where some of this bias comes from. This is not veterinary advice. I am not a veterinarian, and we will not list specific medications. We'll just talk about how many groomers feel about medications, and we'll give a little bit of a history lesson to see where that was coming from.
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