Dog Grooming Brushes

Dog grooming brushes come in all shapes and sizes available for any breed or size of dog and any type of coat.  Brushing your dog regularly stimulates the natural oils in the skin and coat as well as helping the circulation.  An appropriate brush of some sort is an essential part of your equipment as all dogs regardless of whether they have short or long coats require grooming.  Some of these brushes are ergonomically designed for the comfort of your hand.

Bristle Brushes

The best brushes for grooming short-haired dogs with no thick layer of undercoat are the soft bristle brushes.  The bristles get any loose fur or dirt off the body and at the same time stimulating the skin and circulation.  You might prefer a single-sided brush (as in the photo) or a double-sided brush with bristles on one side and pins on the other.  These double-sided good quality seasoned wood dog grooming brushes have a mahogany laquer finish and are more beneficial as it doesn’t hurt to use both sides on a short-haired dog.  Or you might prefer to use a grooming glove.  A good range of brushes, gloves and other grooming tools can be found here at GJW Titmuss.

Ionizing Pet Brush

As adorable as your pet can be, their hair can often get messed up and unpleasant body odors can occur. But a few strokes of the NeoTec XJ-250 Ionic Pet Cleaning Brush will tidy your pet’s fur. Ionized air and activated oxygen thoroughly and gently cleans their hair, improving its growth and eliminating bad odor, resulting in a cleaner and fresher smell. Extra broad brush surface makes hair brushing easy, and the removable brush can be easily cleaned. The NeoTec XJ-250 Ionic Pet Cleaning Brush is, without a doubt, the most ideal way of cleaning pets, as it significantly reduces the burden of bathing them from time to time. This makes pets happier as the ionic pet cleaning brush helps put their bathing trauma to an end.

Slicker Brushes

Some dogs have short coats however they have a layer of undercoat and shed fur constantly throughout the year.  Labrador Retrievers can be an example of this where they seem to shed a lot of coat even though it is short.  If you have a dog with this type of coat then the best grooming brush is a soft pinned slicker brush which gets the undercoat out more effectively.  The soft pin brushes are better for grooming a dog with the shorter coat and the medium pin brushes are a better choice for grooming a dog with a longer and thicker coat.

You may have a breed of dog which has a longer coat but there is not a lot of undercoat.  It may be best to have a look before purchasing the grooming brush to see which is suitable, you would then need to choose whether the soft pin or medium pin slicker brush would be the best choice.  For this type of coat you will need something that can keep on top of the fur matting up (see our grooming tips for matted dogs) and normal pin grooming brushes or bristle brushes are not really be suitable for this type of dog coat.

If your dog is large and has very thick coat such as the Alaskan Malamute or Siberian Husky then the best type of dog grooming brush would be the medium pin slicker brush in a large size plus a shedding blade or rake of some sort (see our page on combs and rakes).  This would get right into the coat and draw the clumps of undercoat out.  The rakes are particularly good for when the dog sheds (or blows) it’s coat a couple of times a year

When handling some of these dog grooming brushes you need to be careful not to hurt the dog.  In particular, the slicker brushes should be used fairly gently against the dog’s skin, although you may need to press harder on the very thick coated dogs.  You will find that some dogs, whether they are short or long coated, will shed coat all year round and therefore a dog grooming brush will need to be an essential item so he/she can be brushed regularly.