The Beagle, also known as the "Beagle", is one of the world's famous dog breeds and is classified as a hunting dog. It has densely grown short hard hair, and its coat colors include white, black and liver-colored hound colors, as well as white tan and white lemon. Beagle dogs have short and hard hair, so grooming them is not difficult. However, Beagles are born with a strong body odor. To ensure that Beagles are clean, clean and odor-free, daily grooming and care must not be careless.

Home beauty methods:

Tool preparation: wire brush, needle brush, bristle brush

Beauty methods/steps

Brush management

How to choose a brush depends on the quality of your dog's coat. Generally, long-haired and soft-haired dogs are more suitable to use hair brushes, while pin brushes and wire brushes are more suitable for steel-haired dogs. Brushing your dog's coat with a brush can remove dead hair and tangles on the dog's body, making the coat soft, tidy and shiny.

Wire brush: Brush away dead hair and make the coat soft and smooth.

Type: soft wire brush, hard wire brush. Pay attention to the technique when using it. If you don't use it properly, you will lose your hair.

Needle brush: Helps blood circulation, prevents static electricity, and makes skin healthy. Bristle brush: It can brush away the dust on the surface of the coat, not easily break the coat, and keep the hair shiny. It is one of the necessary tools for caring for soft hair.

combing

After the brushing is completed, start combing the Beagle's coat with a comb. Many times, even after a round of brushing, many small knots still exist, so you must use a comb to comb it thoroughly again.

The method is to press the bottom of the comb with your thumb, index finger and middle finger, first use a wide-tooth comb to smooth the coat, and then use a fine-tooth comb to straighten the coat. However, do not use a fine-tooth comb to comb the hair at the beginning, as it will easily break the hair. And do not pull hard when combing, as this will not only break the coat, but also cause extreme pain to your dog.

To avoid generating static electricity, it is best for dog combs to be made of metal. Ear and eye cleaning: Dogs’ ears (especially dogs with long ears) are more susceptible to ear diseases, so ear cleaning and examination are indispensable.

First, put a little ear powder into the ear, tap it a few times to let the powder enter the ear, slowly remove it with your fingers or ear hair pliers, then apply ear cleaning water on the cotton, and then use your fingers to swirl it around the ear to clean it. , and finally confirm that the cleaning is complete by checking that the cleaning cotton taken out of the ear is stain-free; after taking a bath, remember to clean it again with ear water. The tear glands of the eyes and earwax are the main reasons for facial hair to turn brown, so in addition to daily grooming, special treatment is also required when bathing.

Take a bath

It is best to bathe Beagle puppies two months after they are born and at least two weeks after they have been vaccinated. If it is for a beagle raised outdoors,Puppies should be bathed 3 to 4 times a year. If they are raised indoors, it is appropriate to bathe them once every 20 days to a month. Dogs' skin doesn't sweat as easily as humans, so they don't need to be bathed as often.

When taking a bath, put the puppy in warm water between 36°C and 38°C, and first remove the secretions near the anus. Then soak the sponge in a pet-specific shampoo diluted dozens of times, and then wash the whole body from the head to the back. Finally, clean the hair with clean water. Note: Do not let shampoo enter the dog's eyes, nose and mouth.

Note: When bathing a beagle, the pet owner should gently rub the dog's body with both hands. In order to achieve the purpose of cleaning more thoroughly, and after the beagle takes a bath, you need to wipe the water drops on the body with a towel, and then use a hair dryer to completely dry the wet hair of the beagle to prevent it from getting dirty. The dog caught a cold.

Eye care

The eyes reflect the health of the body to a great extent. So check your dog's eyes frequently. Pay attention to eye mucus at any time every day.

When there is eye mucus, let your dog close his eyes and clean it with a wet wipe or wet cotton swab. Eyes are also the windows of health. If the eye feces is different from the usual clear or dry brown color, the conjunctiva (the white part of the eye) is red, or the cornea (the dark part of the eye) has white spots or damage, these are signs of illness and should be prevented and treated immediately.

Prevention and cleaning of tear spots

Tear spots are caused by a large amount of tears and eye droppings that are not cleaned in time, causing the fur under the eyes to turn red. Once tear spots form, they are difficult to clean, so you should clean up the dirt in your eyes in time to prevent the formation of tear spots. If it has been formed. Or tear spots, you can instill special tears cleaning drops from the corner of the eye (diluted boric acid water or saline can also be used instead), and then wipe the tear spots with cotton. Continued treatment will gradually make the color of the tear spots lighter.

Ear care

The ear canal of a beagle is "L" shaped. If it is not cleaned regularly, it is easy to develop lesions. The environment of the ear canal is very suitable for the reproduction of microorganisms in terms of temperature, humidity and other conditions, and it is easy to breed bacteria, fungi and other pathogens, leading to ear canal inflammation, cerumen gland inflammation, ear canal hyperplasia, ear canal skin suppuration, and even development of otitis media and dry mouth. Otitis interna.

If you do not pay attention to cleaning your ears, both sides of the ear canal can be completely blocked due to skin hyperplasia of the external auditory canal in just 2 months. Therefore, it is very important to develop the habit of cleaning the ear canal from an early age to prevent ear canal diseases in Beagle dogs. Owners should regularly check their dog's ears for odor, inflammation, and earwax accumulation.

Once a puppy is infected with ear disease, he will often show symptoms such as shaking his head, scratching his ears, and having a pungent odor in the ear canal.

Open the beagle’s ears and press them with your hands so that the hair in the ear canal can be clearly exposed., drop ear cleaning water or ear oil into the ear

For the Beagle’s ears, gently massage the ears from the outside to completely spread the ear cleaning water or ear oil throughout the ear canal

After massaging, let go of the dog's head, and it will shake its ears and throw out most of the medicine, so you don't have to dig out the remaining medicine in the ear canal

Use a cotton swab (professionals use hemostats to wrap cotton) to wipe the inside of the ear canal, but do not extend too far to avoid damaging the beagle's inner ear

Use a cotton towel to wipe the beagle’s outer ears.