My family gets upset with him (as well as others) because they'll say something to him or try to get him to do something and he doesn't acknowledge them or even look their way they don't exist. He is a momma's boy! He follows me everywhere. When he was younger going there, the hairdresser's daughter used to read him a book after she got out of school to keep him from whining until I picked him up. I like his hair kept short so he goes to the same hairdresser (since he was a baby) every 4 weeks in the summer months and 6 weeks in the winter months. His name is Gizmo and he's 8 years old in this picture. How do you do the feet on these dogs? I just trimmed closely and clipped the underneath not as clean as the spoos, I thought that might be pushing it."This is my dog, a Pekingese and Poodle mix. I swear it seems his hair grows faster than the poodle. I got a few pics but her son is a bit hyper and would not let me get a few good pics - and I didn't get the before but you can imagine he had never been trimmed. I did well for handling someone else's dog, as if I had done it before LOL so I am proud of myself there but when he snapped - I gave him a break, tried calming him but he was not kidding he wanted to bite as a matter of fact he nipped her and I felt terrible. We shorted the top of his head because her son had him in a mohawk. his santy and belly area he was not too bad but when I got closer to the neck and face he turned vicious!! So she tried holding him while I did what I could but I barely rounded his face. I used a 1/2 inch comb and scissored the legs. He was bathed and dried before I got there he did fine on the body and legs. It's just not worth ruining a puppy for grooming, just to get the job done. You can always stop the groom and try again another day. 4 month old pups are right smack dab in the middle of their fear imprinting stage, so any extreme fearful event can give them a horrible feeling for being groomed or handled in these ways. Don't force it to the point of making the puppy afraid of grooming. Start with the bath, nails, sani, face and IF the puppy is still being cooperative (for the most part), then proceed with the body. I think the main thing to remember with ANY puppy this age is, do not push the puppy TOO hard. He gets a 3/8 comb on his body and scissored legs with a teddy head/face and longerish ears. You can see Little Man's (the older one) picture on my facebook page in my grooms album. He now gets so excited to come and see me, his mom is still to this day, amazed at how he behaves when she tells him he's coming to see me! He runs in and jumps up in my arms and gives me tons of kisses. I gave his "mom" some homework and she really worked with him and brought him in frequently so he would get used to being worked with. The other one is about 4 years old and such a loverīoth had issue's (and still do to a point) with having their faces done as puppies and the older one, on his first groom, I couldn't get near his face! As hard as I tried (and still be gentle) I had to send him home with his face undone. One is very small and a real pistol, but he's calmed down considerably in the last few groomings. I have two that I have been doing since they were puppies.
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