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Foot hair

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Question
I like to give my dog baths at home because he gets extremely frightened when I leave him at the groomers.  This usually works fine, because they do ear cleaning, tooth brushing and toenail clipping while you wait, so I continue to have those professionally done.  My problem is that he is some kind of mix like Papillon (shelter dog--we don't know what he is) that has hair that grows between the pads of his feet.  Is there any way to safely do this at home?

Answer
You can choose 2 variants:
1. try to inure your dog to go to a groomer.
2. Learn to groom it at home
If you decide to groom it at home, you should go to a groomer, which can show you everything how to cut hair between pads, how to clean ears, how to cut toenail, how to brush tooth and more. I cannot tell everything in written, cause it's very hard to describe everything...

Good luck,
Amanda.