Grooming of the english cocker spaniel.
Few owners of english cocker spaniels can be occupied correctly maintenance of their dog
The puppy.
Even if in three months it has little fur, it should be brushed to accustom it to the
Brushing.
Brush your cocker spaniel every day.
start with the belly and the legs (not to forget the foots) then the back and
Once every fifteen days, pass this comb (20 blades) on the back of your cocker spaniel :
all the dead hairs will be eliminated.
Washing.
Every months your english cocker spaniel must be washed.
Grooming.
The english cocker spaniel must be groom but must keep a natural aspect.
Various care.
The ears.
Any total or partial reproduction is prohibited.
and that for lack of information.
Many people believe that the english cocker spaniel doesn't require any maintenance
separately small weekly brushing.
They think that as it's a gun dog, it must remain "natural".
When you walk with your dog, full with dirtinesses cling to its ears, its fringe and
its legs.
Without speaking about the graminaceous one which can enter the auditory canal of the ear and
which makes suffer your dog enormously.
The hair of the cocker spaniel is very developed and without the elimination of the died
hairs, it will be transformed quickly into "yeti".
If you neglect her dress, of the nodes will be formed under the belly and behind the ears.
Moreover, some parasites will cling in its peeling and you will not realize of nothing.
A bad maintenance harms the health of your dog.
meetings of grooming.
Every day, take your puppy and install it on the table.
Brush to with a soft brush all while speaking to him gently, lay down it on the side
to pass the brush under the belly to him.
Also accustom it to brush the teeth.
When brushing is finished, a reward is essential!
As of four months, your puppy can take its first bath with an adapted shampoo (see bath).
Only precaution : that it doesn't take cold.
Take this brush,
finish by the ears (interior and outside).
Finish brushing while passing this metal comb on all the dress.
Also benefit from daily brushing to check its ears, to clean its chops and to
brush the teeths to him.
When brushing is finished, reward it!
Use a shampoo for dog, neutral PH, adapted to its color of dress.
If its hairs are damaged, use a shampoo with proteins.
Wet your dog with tepid water and apply a first shampoo, mass but don't rub to
avoid making nodes. To rinse abundantly.
If the dog is dirty, repeat the operation.
Then apply a disentangling cream, well to make penetrate in the hair, to let act
5 minutes while massing. To rinse abundantly.
Dry your dog in terry towels.
Finish drying with the hair drier, not too hot, while brushing the dog in the
direction of the hair.
Start with the rib cage and the back so that it doesn't take cold.
The young cocker spaniels have a fluff of baby on the head and the back.
This hair of baby must be depilated with the fingers; especially never not
to shave or cross to the scissors.
Even thing for the adults; the head, the back and the top of the tail must be
depilated or trimmed.
Especially, don't leave "cheek" on the head of your english cocker spaniel,
don't forget that it's a noble dog!
Work the neck with the scissors to thin.
To leave the sternum and to cut all the hair until under the chin and the sides
of the neck to the ears.
The top of the ear is also worked with the scissors to thin.
To take as locate a third of the ear starting from its fastener and to thin.
It must appear very fine and stuck to the head of the dog.
The cheeks of the dog are also worked with the scissors.
The interior of the ears must be released with an aim of hygiene.
To work the tail and the anal area with the scissors to thin.
To withdraw the hairs of the sides and the lower part of the tail.
To form the round-off at the end of the tail; nothing isn't more ridiculous then
one cocker spaniel with a "pompon" of the end of the tail.
To flatten the hairs around the anus.
Not to move with the fringes of the breeches.
To thin the feet in round-off to make "cat's feet", not to let appear the nails.
Withdraw the hairs between the bearings. Cut the nails.
To thin the forelegs to the reveal the angulations.
Equalize in oblique the fringes of the front legs.
Not to touch with the fringes of the body and the ears.
Each week, put to him a cleaning product in the ears.
Ask your veterinary for this product.
Mass a few minutes to detach the wax; when the dog shakes the head (it isn't
immediately), remove the wax which was detached.
If it's brown, consult your veterinary because it was certainly an infection.
Teeth.
To brush the teeth every days well to him.
He to give bones in skin of buffalo or nylon to be corroded, that will cleaning
the teeth to him and will avoid unpleasant descalings to him.
Eyes.
To clean every day eyes with an infusion of camomile.
Soak a compress and pass on the eye.
In the event of flow, consult your veterinary, it will prescribe you an eye lotion.
Lower chops.
Very important.
Dirtinesses accumulate in the holes of the chops.
They should absolutely be washed every day to avoid the risks of infection.
To take a toilet glove wet, to clean and dry with a terry towel.
Bearings.
Check the lower part of the feet every day and with the return of each walk.
There can be a spine, a graminaceous, a small stone, a tick, ...
Use tweezers to remove the intruder and disinfect with an aqueous solution.
For the ticks or wounds, go to your veterinary; it's safer.
For the famous "chewing-gum", gently cut all at the base of the hairs to remove it.
The winter, before leaving your dog, coat its bearings of a thick layer of
petroleum jelly (speading of the roads and the pavements).
When you come back home, put his legs in tepid water.