Lhasa Apso Grooming Tips

Your Lhasa Apso pup needs to be introduced to being groomed right from your first days together. [If you are taking on a rescue dog and it isn't used to being groomed then follow the tips for introducing your pup to grooming.]

First, and most importantly, you need to work to get to a situation where both you and your pet look forward to an enjoyable time together when he or she is being groomed. You need to be able to get your pup to sit still and enjoy being handled all over.

Towards this end [enjoyment] you can introduce the comb, brush, clippers, and any other equipment you are going to employ slowly and as a treat to look forward to.

Try just brushing a little bit of their coat and see what sort of reaction you get. If it isn't enjoyment, then distraction could well need to be employed. This will probably need two people, one to distract with treats, whilst the other uses the brush, all the time saying how nice it is, and talking gently to your pet.

Your Lhasa Apso needs grooming daily so making it an enjoyable experience is a vital necessity.

Always remember to begin combing from the bottom of the hair and work slowly towards the skin - like getting tangles out of a childs long hair.

For superb grooming aids just click the link to the online pet retailer with more than 4,000 products - then click DOGS at the top [almost centre] of the page - after that use the left-hand margin, you'll find the heading of 'Grooming' - click there, you'll find two pages of offers which include everything you could possibly need!

[Note: the distraction method works well, as long as you know what will distract your pet. We took on a rescue who had been ill-treated, food was the motivator, so one of us had to have a handful of treats and feed them slowly to him whilst he was handled. It can take a long time before a mis-treated dog will allow some things to be done to him even with distractions!]