I adopted a 10-month old doodle and don't know anything about maintaining this kind of coat. It's kind of in between a lab and a poodle - somewhat but not extremely curly. Big dog - 100lb.
He has a short, poodle-like clip, where ears and tails are long, body clipped quite short (fur is just under an inch long?), legs seem slightly longer. His tail hairs are super long, so I'm guessing all his hair would be long if he weren't clipped. I'd like to keep the clipping up, to reduce shedding and to show off how handsome he is under all that hair, LOL!
I have several questions...
(1) how often should we bath him, and what shampoo do you recommend?
(2) recommended de-shedder or brush styles? He seems to shed lightly.
(3) Any recommendations for how I should learn to clip him? Rather than bring him to the groomer all the time, I was thinking about clipping him myself. I haven't clipped dogs before, although worked as an assistant to a groomer years ago, but I have clipped horses so think I can pick it up pretty easily. What I don't know is which sized attachments I should use for clipping him... would the body be a different attachment from the legs, typically? Any guess for what length of attachment it'd be?
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