The Owner Who Doesn't Understand Ep195
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
We'll discuss how to talk with pet owners about the importance of safety in addressing behavior issues. This may be relevant to you if you're a pet owner or if your groomer has directed you here. Sometimes, conveying the significance of safety to owners who don't fully understand its relevance in addressing behavior and safety problems can be challenging. For full transcripts, go to the episode on You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts. You can watch episodes at For more information about my classes, go...
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When It’s Your Own Dog Ep194
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
Why can it be so much harder when it's your own dog? What makes it so different? There are some extra steps that we need to take when it's our own dogs. We have some blind spots, and sometimes, we get in our own way. We're going to explore some of those blind spots this week. For full transcripts, go to the episode on You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts. You can watch episodes at For more information about my classes, go to or go to the Whole Pet Grooming Academy website Want to support the show?
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The "Hard" Dogs Ep193
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
What do you do with the really difficult cases? We're going explore that this week. What do you do when a dog is really, really "bad" for grooming when we already know everything about him. We've been grooming him for years and he's just not going to get better. What do you do? For full transcripts, go to the episode on You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts. You can watch episodes at For more information about my classes, go to or go to the Whole Pet Grooming Academy website Want to support the show? ...
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Stephanie Zikmann Behavior Chat
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
Together We're Better Behavior Chats! Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Creating Great Grooming Dogs show! In this installment of "Together We're Better Behavior Chats," your host Chrissy engages in a fascinating conversation with the incredible Stephanie Zikmann from The Holistic Grooming Academy! She is the renowned author of "The Magic of Holistic Grooming" and "A Teacher's Guide to Low-Stress Grooming." For more info about Stephanie go to holisticgroomingacademy.com For more information about Creating Great Grooming Dogs, go to For more information about my classes,...
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Meds For Behavior Issues Ep192
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
We will talk about the controversy about using meds for animals who have difficulty with grooming. There are lots of strong feelings about this. I think that many groomers refuse to work with animals that are medicated. And then there are other people who really want the animals to be medicated. So we'll talk about where some of this bias comes from. This is not veterinary advice. I am not a veterinarian, and we will not list specific medications. We'll just talk about how many groomers feel about medications, and we'll give a little bit of a history lesson to see where that was coming from....
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Train Your Dog Month Ep191
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
Episode 191. This week, we're talking about National Train Your Dog Month. So January in the United States is National Train Your Dog Month, and I wanna talk about a variety of dog training options out there for owners to explore and also talk about the idea that training is enrichment and it should be fun for people and dogs. For full transcripts, go to the episode on You can also listen to this episode as a podcast on my website or anywhere you listen to podcasts. You can watch episodes at For more information about my classes, go to or go to the Whole Pet Grooming Academy website Want...
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Warnings and Bites Ep190
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
Episode 190 Warnings and Bites. What is the difference between a dog giving you a warning and a dog trying to hurt you? I don't want you to think a dog can't hurt you. Maybe you think they're too small, old, or young. Any pet can hurt you. I also don't want you to think that maybe a dog missed. “You got lucky that he missed.” They rarely miss. So we're gonna talk about the difference between warnings and a dog that's trying to hurt you and why we, as professionals, should take warnings very seriously. Dogs Bite: But Balloons and Slippers Are More Dangerous by Janis Bradley For...
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The 4 Stages of Learning Ep 189
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
There are lots of ways we can define learning. I think these 4 stages are going to be helpful. If you've ever wondered, well, we worked on it last time, why doesn't he understand this time? Or why does he need to practice this? There are lots of things that we can do better if we understand how dogs learn. This is the Creating Great Grooming Dog Show. I'm Chrissy Neumyer Smith. I'm a master groomer behavior specialist(MGBS), a certified professional groomer(CPG), a certified behavior consultant for canines(CBCC-KA), a certified professional dog trainer(CPDT-KA), a Fear Free certified...
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Is Punishment Necessary? Ep188
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
Episode 188, is punishment necessary? Is that something that we need to do to get our jobs done? Is that something that's going to be helpful? We'll explore that this week. This is the Creating Great Grooming Dog Show. I'm Chrissy Neumyer Smith. I'm a master groomer behavior specialist(MGBS), a certified professional groomer(CPG), a certified behavior consultant for canines(CBCC-KA), a certified professional dog trainer(CPDT-KA), a Fear Free certified professional(FFCP) in training and grooming, I'm an instructor at Whole Pet Grooming Academy, and I own Happy Critters in...
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Desensitization, This Moment Matters Ep 187
Creating Great Grooming Dogs
Episode 187 Desensitization. What is it? How does it work? Why could it be helpful? What are a few reasons why maybe you haven't had good luck with it. That's what we'll be talking about this week. This is the Creating Great Grooming Dog Show. I'm Chrissy Neumyer Smith. I'm a master groomer behavior specialist(MGBS), a certified professional groomer(CPG), a certified professional dog trainer(CPDT-KA), and a certified behavior consultant for canines(CBCC-KA). I'm an instructor at Whole Pet Grooming Academy, and I am the owner of Happy Critters in Nashua, New Hampshire. And this, my friends and...
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