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Should your Labradoodle coat be Short, medium or long? Their are a few hair cuts out there, if you find a picture of a labradoodle cut you like print it and take it in to the groomer, most have never groomed a labradoodle so taking a photo helps. I like to just have them shaved ALL over twice a year to about an inch and then let it grow out in between, but that is just the easy way to do it.
Grooming Process, A Labradoodle can keep the medium to long coat and be scissor cut about once or twice a year only. F1B and Multigen Labradoodles require the following care
General Labradoodle Body Grooming
- Brush
- Thin all mats with thinning shears, brush or pull them out, trim with scissors to desired length
- Or shave the dog down to about an inch ALL over and let it just grow out. This can be done twice a year and ends with the least amount of grooming required.
Tush area
- Brush
- Thin all mats with thinning shears and brush or pull them out
- Trim with short blade shaver just under tail
- Taper hind quarters to tail gradually with shaver or scissors to give a larger full chest area tapered to tail
Grooming Ears
- Pull all hair in ear canal and shave underside of ear near ear canal. To pull out hair you can use your fingers, a tweezers or ask you vet for a pair of hemostats. Just grab and pull.
- Thin out or shave with medium blade hair on neck just under ears to allow ears to lay flat
- Trim outside of ear flap to desired length as body
- Note: ears should be keep clean with ear wash at least monthly
 
Grooming Labradoodle Eye Area
- trim short just under eyes and between eyes to allow clear vision, trim head coat just above eyes
Clean up the Muzzle
- Trim muzzle equal length around closer at eyes, see above
- Do not trim like a Wheaton terrier where there is a part between the eyes and long to both sides, you want a rounded casual look with a slight beard
- Trim hair along lip line close to keep out of mouth.
- Note: for cream and chalk colors you may want the muzzle shorter to keep clean color
- You may want to thin out with thinning shears under chin to neck which can mat easier.
 
Round off the Feet
- Gradually round feet to pads
- Trim all hair under foot between pads especially in winter when snow can accumulate here
- Trim nails
 
Wash and Dry after Grooming
- Wash with shampoo and spray with a detangler we love Cowboy Magic Shampoo and Detangler and for a dry bath we use Dry dog Instant Clean
- DO NOT brush again, treat it like a human perm. either air dry or dry without brushing using fingers to scrunch coat as you go. This keeps hair corded not fuzzy.
Teeth Cleaning
- For healthy teeth I like and use Dental Ring by Omega Paw from Petsmart and our dogs have the whitest teeth. We give them these about every other month to chew on, they leave a small mess of cardboard after, but it is well worth the trouble. These are hard to find...I am looking for alternatives.
For the big stuff use a groomer, and please take in a photo of the cut you desire, most groomer's are not trained to groom them.
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