Learn Grooming your dog does not stop once you follow the things given above, you should improve your knowledge about your dog and try to learn more things and techniques on how to properly groom your dog. You can buy books or read articles about how to groom your dog. Groom After you have understood your dog, prepared yourself, invested on the tools and supply you need, and learned more about the particular grooming requirement of your dog, then, it is time for you to do some dog grooming. You can use either scissors style nail clipper or the guillotine style clipper. Both will work best in keeping your dog's nails neat. Bathing Bathing frequency depends on the breed of your dog. Unlike humans, they dogs don t need to take a bath everyday. This is because they would lose the natural oil needed in keeping their coat shiny and clean. This may be why a lot of people are neglecting their pets because they do not have the required budget set aside for that purpose. Before you rant and rave about all these things, stop for a while. There are actually things that you can use to groom your dogs without ruining your allotted budget. How? Dogs that have long hair needs to be cleaned daily while dogs with short hair can leave with daily grooming. If the dog has a very thick or heavy coating, make use of soft, fine and wide-toothed comb. Ears on the other hand, need not to be groomed daily but it should be observed at least twice daily. If for you, combing your hair is important, what more to your dog? Fur covers the entire body of your dog while your hair only covers the top of your head. Thus, your dog requires more brushing than you do. What's the point of doing this? Dogs - especially dogs with long coat - that do not receive regular brushing can develop matting. Although you have some initial cash outs, it is actually cheaper in the long run since you don t have to visit dog grooming shop and spend for the services they give to your dog twice or more each month. Your dog, whether it is pure- or mixed-breed, should be groomed depending on its requirement. And as an owner, it is your primary responsibility to know how to properly take care of your particular dog.