I guess you can only do 1 attachment per post, so I'll send the 2nd picture in a separate post. So here's a Std. Poodle I've groomed for a little over a year (nearly since I started grooming). He's massive and not really properly shaped, which makes it a bit difficult to groom him "correctly". He's got a huge tuck-up flap that makes working around his hips and thighs a pain in the arse. He goes through weight fluctuations which doesn't help.
His mother lets me do whatever I want with him and for a while asked for a totally different cut each time I saw him....which was quite fun. I get to try weird clips on him. His ears are short because the last style I had him in (over the summer/fall) was the Euro? (based on "Notes" titles) It was the shaved ear and carrot tail look. He's about 7years I think and it was the first time his ears had been shaved. It didn't go over well for him. He shook his head so much he had hematomas on his ears and they kept bursting. So we're growing them out again as well as his tail. This cut is a kind of modified Town and Country (I think). His owner have me a 2 inch side view terrible black computer drawing from a poodle website to go by. I basically went by my notes book, but the varieties and names are a bit overwhelming. This is my 3rd time for him in this clip, so I've been adjusting it each time. The band around the ribs was much larger the 1st time and the neck was much lower. I tend to go a little crazy with hand scissoring (I like it too much) so I tried running a boot over him to try and cut down on time. It didn't help. I still hand scissored over the boot work. His hair is good and thick, but I've only got an 8.5 inch straight to work with that's starting to get a bit dull. It usually takes me about 4 hours to do him start to finish, no matter what cut I have him in. I bathe first, use moisture magnets, HV to nearly dry then fluff dry. That alone takes me half the time.
Any advice on the clip itself and any advice on shaving time off him?
His mother lets me do whatever I want with him and for a while asked for a totally different cut each time I saw him....which was quite fun. I get to try weird clips on him. His ears are short because the last style I had him in (over the summer/fall) was the Euro? (based on "Notes" titles) It was the shaved ear and carrot tail look. He's about 7years I think and it was the first time his ears had been shaved. It didn't go over well for him. He shook his head so much he had hematomas on his ears and they kept bursting. So we're growing them out again as well as his tail. This cut is a kind of modified Town and Country (I think). His owner have me a 2 inch side view terrible black computer drawing from a poodle website to go by. I basically went by my notes book, but the varieties and names are a bit overwhelming. This is my 3rd time for him in this clip, so I've been adjusting it each time. The band around the ribs was much larger the 1st time and the neck was much lower. I tend to go a little crazy with hand scissoring (I like it too much) so I tried running a boot over him to try and cut down on time. It didn't help. I still hand scissored over the boot work. His hair is good and thick, but I've only got an 8.5 inch straight to work with that's starting to get a bit dull. It usually takes me about 4 hours to do him start to finish, no matter what cut I have him in. I bathe first, use moisture magnets, HV to nearly dry then fluff dry. That alone takes me half the time.
Any advice on the clip itself and any advice on shaving time off him?
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