Learn the different foot types and proper trimming techniques!
In this course, you'll learn the essential techniques for expertly trimming your dog's feet to achieve a clean, polished finish that's crucial for the show ring. Allison will explain the different foot types - including cat feet, hare feet, and more - as well as common foot faults. We will discuss pasterns, foot and nail anatomy, and more to further your understanding of foot conformation and how to trim accordingly.
Our video demonstrations illustrate the trimming techniques including clipping and trimming the pads, trimming around short coated feet, trimming a cat vs. hare foot, natural foot trimming, bevels, and much more.
In this course, you will learn step-by-step how to groom your dog's feet. This includes...
- What do you want the foot to look like?
- Determining your dog's foot type from the breed standard
- Cat feet, hare feet, webbed feet, upright pasterns, sloping pasterns, etc.
- Common foot faults
- "Trimmed" versus "Untrimmed" feet
- Nail maintenance and why it matters for foot trimming
- Video examples of how to trim the feet for different coat types
- and more!
