Product Details

• Actors: Susie Ward, Ena Lane
• Directors: Ena Lane
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MJM /A.R.T. Productions LLC
• VHS Release Date: December 1, 2000
• Run Time: 65 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1891664042
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,511 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Actor

From the Producer: Your dog needs basic grooming. Your longhaired dog needs haircuts. Here's how to do it all.

The team that produced the critically acclaimed "Show Off Your Dog GROOMING BASICS" presents this wonderful new video. They have selected the haircuts that are the simplest to execute and easiest to maintain for this most engaging program ... the BASIC HAIRCUTS. All of the essential grooming procedures that contribute to your dog's health and well being are clearly presented. This is the most complete and practical grooming guide available for the dog owner.

From the Director: This sixty-five minute instructional video demonstrates the BASICS of grooming, pet haircuts and fundamental dog training for grooming.

Once you learn these basics, the rest is simple and you can be grooming your own dog.

If you do all of your own grooming, this is the only grooming instruction you will ever need to have a perfectly groomed dog. If you use a professional groomer and your dog is accustomed to being groomed properly at home, his experience at the groomer's will be a more pleasant event and certainly one that is less traumatic.

This enjoyable and upbeat program is presented by Ena Lane and Susie Ward. Ena is a world class breeder and exhibitor with over twenty-five years' experience with purebred dogs. Susie is a highly regarded professional groomer and lecturer with forty-five years'experience in show and pet grooming.

Product Description

Grooming your dog just became easier, more convenient and more economical!

Here is a practical guide to BASIC GROOMING for your dog that demonstrates BASIC HAIRCUTS and BASIC TRAINING for grooming.

This video offers an exceptional approach to grooming a dog at home. The program details essential grooming and simple, basic haircuts that can be adapted to suit a variety of breeds and breed types. Rather than a tutorial in complex professional grooming techniques and intricate breed specific pet clips, the emphasis is on simplifying procedures for the average pet owner.

Your dog's health and well being depend upon BASIC GROOMING. Learn to: Trim the eyebrows and whiskers...Trim the pads of the feet...Pluck hair from the ears...Cut the toenails.

Key elements of conventional pet clips comprise the BASIC HAIRCUTS so that you can select the one most suitable for your dog, whatever the breed. Learn how to give your dog an attractive haircut: The Spaniel Cut ... The Traditional Puppy Cut ... The Poodle Clip ... The Puppy Cut for Terriers ... The Utility Cut.

For grooming to be the pleasant, rewarding experience it should be for you and your dog, BASIC TRAINING is necessary. Among the topics included: Your Puppy's First Bath ... Handling the Geriatric Dog

You don't have to be skilled in all the techniques used by professional groomers in order to have your dog perfectly groomed with an attractive haircut. Bring the grooming, the haircuts and the training down to BASICS, and you can be grooming your own dog. It's just that simple!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

67 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haircuts for your dog and much more, November 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Grooming Your Dog BASIC HAIRCUTS [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an excellent and practical dog grooming video for learning how to do pet clips and grooming at home. A simplified basic pet haircut that can be adapted to look good on a variety of breeds is presented from start to finish. Everything is clearly explained so that any pet owner can follow along and achieve professional looking results.

For owners of dogs that just need to be "tidied up", there is plenty here. Close up camera angles show how to trim beards and hair fringing the eyes in styles that work well for various breeds. Scissoring the Poodle top knot and the Schnauzer head are outstanding segments.

Using a clipper and using scissors are both covered as are all important aspects of grooming that must be performed for all dogs. Highlights are the angst producing chores of cutting nails and removing hair from the inner ears. Both of these procedures are demonstrated with close up camera angles for the novice to understand the mechanics involved.

Owners of new puppies learn how to get their dogs off to the right start via a demonstration of how to handle a puppy efficiently and with confidence during his first bath. The same useful tips and advice apply for adult dogs. The older dog is not forgotten with the inclusion of the compassionate closing segment that outlines special considerations when grooming the elder companion.

58 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Aimed in the right direction, but it missed the target, September 22, 2001

By 

Ray and Penelope (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grooming Your Dog BASIC HAIRCUTS [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The advertising and packaging for this video gave me a good first
impression, but the contents of the video itself had more than it's
fair share of shortcomings. For one, the actual hair trimming and
clipping demonstrated was very limited. I felt there was adequate
time spent only on what was called the "puppy cut", but that
style seemed inappropriate for most breeds that I could think of,
especially for my standard poodle. The most popular styles that my
groomer told me to look for were not demonstrated or even
discussed.

The groomer was pleasant, but as a novice I found it
difficult to follow the choppy format she utilized, and I felt like a
lot of required information was left out. (Many of the cuts she
mentioned were not even shown or demonstrated to the viewer.) [...]

To sum it up, some of the comments made by the groomer
were helpful, but this video was not very redeeming overall, and it
certainly was not cost-effective. A video described as being
"basic" should be just that; it should at least provide
enough information to get you started, but my educated opinion is that
this one does not.

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Video!, November 8, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Grooming Your Dog BASIC HAIRCUTS [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you want to learn how to groom your dog, this video is for you! I have wanted to learn how to groom my two Shih Tzu's at home. This video made it possible! It shows how to groom your dog safely and efficiently. Now when I go to work at the Kennel I can also help to groom the dogs there! This video is great! I don't even have to buy another one!