How Regular Grooming Can Benefit Your Dog's Health

Hygiene is one of the most important aspects when it comes to measures for preventing self from illness and disease. Maintaining and taking care of your pet’s hygiene will help in keeping away your pet from illness and ticks attack. Pampering your pet with frequent grooming will help in dealing with health issues, detecting lumps or wounds in the skin, keeping it away from bad odor and most importantly keeping it clean.

This will ensure the overall health of your companions to remain good throughout irrespective of whether its short haired or long haired.

1.Dental Health Of Your Pooch.

Grooming includes maintaining the overall health of your pooch and this also includes taking care of its dental health. As important it is for humans to take care of their dental health, similarly important is your pooch’s health. Twice or thrice brushing regime can save your pooch from many dental diseases and keep it away from bad breath.

Brushing your dog’s teeth on everyday basis using toothpaste which is made for dogs especially. This will help prevent plaque formation on the teeth, keep it away from bad breath and also deal with swelling and reddening of gums effectively.

2.Cleaning Of Ear.

After dental health, the next important aspect is cleaning of your dog’s ear fro an excess of wax that develops in the pinna of its ear. A thin layer of wax is considered healthy, excess of this signifies bacteria and yeast infection which can lead to swelling getting developed around ears and bad odor. Cleaning your dog’s ear on regular basis using cleaning agents and later removing the excess of wax that has deposited with a cotton ball will help it be healthy and free of disease.

It is advisable to not use cotton buds as this may lead to permanent deafness and breaking of the pinna in the ear.

3. Bathing

Bathing your dog to clean it of dirt and prevent it of ticks and fleas infection if any is an important part of grooming. How regularly to bathe your dog depends on its type of coat and breed type. Bathing helps in getting rid of dirt, an excess of oil in the coat thus saving it of bad odor. While some dog breeds need regular sessions of bathing, few can don’t regular bathing to maintain cleanliness.

4. Prevention Against Matted Hair.

Brushing your pooch regularly or frequently will help it stay clean and prevent its coat from the attack of fleas and ticks. Matted hair is usually tangled mass that pulls the skin and this can cause discomfort for your pet. Regular brushing and combing of hair will prevent matted hair.

• Grooming also aids in detecting lumps and wounds in your pet’s skin which otherwise goes unnoticed due to excess of hair. Frequent grooming will let the owner know about these wounds and infections, thereby helping to take important measures before the wound turns serious or fatal, also letting you detect any lumps in the skin which may be cancerous or non-cancerous.

6.Trimming Of Nails

Trimming your dog’s nails will help save from your dog wounding itself and you as well. Long nails may create discomfort to the dog while walking, pruning them to the correct length will help prevent them discomfort while walking and highlight cracks, dry paw-pads, tangled fur and swelling around the area.

Grooming is as important to your pet’s health as that of right food and exercise. keeping it clean can prevent it from bad odor, ricks, fleas and dirt getting deposited. Dogs with double coat needs special brushing and combing sessions in order to keep tangles away at the same time maintaining the lustre of its hair.