Groomers help please :)

Bosworth

Bosworth

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My 'MIL' has a cockerpoo, he looks very very messy and has to be groomed every day as he mats really badly. I have suggested we trim him to about an inch and a half all over and she can start again. I am used to trimming my bedlington into a proper show trim and am quite handy with my clippers and scissors, BUT........ how on earth do I trim a cockerpoo. MIL wants a 'teddy bear' clip, which to me just looks like the same length all over. But how do I get to that. I have the Oster clippers, I can buy new blades, I have loads of scissors, but HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPpppppppppp :)
 
Aim for an inch over the back & neck - much easier than half an inch longer as you can set this length with a comb on the clippers or your fingers. Comb out & blend the legs same as with your Bedlington. Bedlington feet work well on hairy mutts.
What is the coat and is this a Yank or English cocker mutt? Teddy bear is whatever that groomer chooses to do with a round head - not a set style. If you clipped a dog to have hair like a teddy bear it would be a third of an inch all over, at most, and be nothing like what people ask for.
 
It is allegedly a cross between a show cocker and a toy poodle, I am not convinced it was a cocker, I think CKC, and I agree he is a mutt, but he is a well loved ' very hairy' mutt. I was proposing clipping out his belly and inner thighs and around his penis as I would do my beddy, as he matts there badly. I can do his legs the same as my beddy then and just take out his toes to the first knuckle and between his toes:) I pulled all the hair out of his ears yesterday, which he loved, against MILs wishes as she thought it would hurt him. I left her some forceps and watched her do it so that is that solved. I have suggested an inch all over his body but she is struggling with seeing him as that short haired. i would love to clip him out like my beddy, down to short all over the body, really short on the underside of his neck, and a neat head, but she likes his full ears, his stupid eyebrows and his soggy dribbled in beard! So i have to compromise. I can get combs for my oster blades which allegedly give me 1.5 inches, do they work? And would I need to use them with a skip tooth 10mm blade? His fur is thick, very wavy, and courser than my beddy.
 
Combs only work on short blades (Beddy cheek blade #15?) and the longer ones are less reliable and require very well blown out coats.
Her choice;-long hair = more brushing.
An inch can look fluffier than slightly longer but ask her for photos of what she would like. Shell out underneath and comb out this time but tell her that if he gets knots again it is #5 blade all over. Dematting can hurt (your wrists as well as the dog). It is easier to keep coats longer in the Summer than when the dog is consistently getting wet.
 
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