Steampup Parlor

Have you always wanted your terrier or spaniel to look like the dogs on tv?

Do you wonder how they look like that in the dog shows?

These dogs are groomed differently, they are not clipped and scissored at all actually. These dogs are all hand stripped and carded out.

What is hand stripping?

Terriers, other broken coat and wire coated breeds are double coated. They have 2 types of hair that make up their coat; the dull colored soft undercoat, and the rich colored wire top coat. Hand stripping is removing the dead coat of the top jacket by fingers or by a stripping knife and rakes.

Breeds that need hand stripping

all dogs with a wire harsh coat like

airedales, westie, schnauzers, german wire hair pointers, spinoni, scotties, wirehair dachshunds, irish wolfhounds, brussels griffon, broken coated jack russell, welsh terriers, bouviers, border terrier, etc.

Hand stripping is charged by actual time spent stripping the dog at $125 hr. We do not exceed more than 3 hr per session; so some Xlarge dogs maybe broken up into several appointments. Maintaining this service can be combined with regular carding appointments (see below) to keep dog in coat as long as possible before next full body strip.

What is carding?

Carding is the removal of undercoat from a dogs coat. Its used in sporting breeds like english springer spaniel and setters to make their fur coat on jacket lay flat and smooth. It is done using with a tool that looks a stripping knife, but is made to remove under coat instead of outer harsh coat called a carding knives and rakes.

Breeds that are carded out

all double coated & wire coat breeds can be carded out to help shedding out dead coat!

Most common breeds are irish, gorden & english setter, Flat coat, Golden retriever, english, american cockers, springer, clumber, field, brittany spaniels, sussex, border collie, aussies, (including most terriers) etc.

Carding is charged by 15 min increments at $20. 30 min max per session. Carding is a service that should be maintained weekly to monthly to have a correct coat. This is a great method to combine with hand stripping (above) to maintain the jacket between strips also.

Carding is a additional service and doesn't include bath and trim pricing.

For more information on these services please contact us.

Hand Stripping service requires you to sign a hand stripping release form

Hand Strip Release Form

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Hand Stripping 
Release Form

Before you make the decision on having your dog hand stripped I need to make you aware of all your options of all different types of grooming and reasons why or why not this may not be a good choose for your dog. In some cases your dog’s coat or skin may not be the type or condition to be hand stripped. I will take the time to talk to you about carding, mucking out, coat maintenance what you have to do between sessions if we decided this is right for your dogs coat, or lifestyle.
 
Please bring your dog in dirty to your appointment I only work on dirty dogs its easier to pull coat out this way and see current skin condition beforehand. So don’t wash at least 1 week prior appointment date.

-Hand stripping is where the hard wire top coat is hand plucked out leaving another layer of coat under neath. 
-Carding coat is mucking/removing under coat allowing more hard coat to grow in and to allow hard coat to lay down flat. 
-Staging a jacket is hand stripping coat out in a pattern to their jammies ideal for certain terriers for show coat. This is a weekly session continuously for several weeks. 
Jammies or Chicken Pluck is pulling all the coat out to skin or soft under coat if done in 2 stages this is for recondition/reset damage coat or for a coat over grown and must be restarted.

In stripping out coat sometimes dogs are not fit for this due to temperament or previous grooming experience in past. This sometimes require muzzling dogs and/or an imperfect or unfinished strip. Not all pets should be stripped due to this and I can discuss this after first visit if we should continue this form of grooming with a dog like that or not. Sometimes dogs move and too much hair is pulled leaving bald spots and leaving open pores. (I cannot take responsibility for this happening in these cases.)

Where possible I may decide to leave the bathing part for a later date giving the skin time to calm down and relieve itself. If your dog does come back for its bath at a later date (2-7 days) I will use a soothing shampoo to help the skin to heal.

While I will try to make sure I do not cause any irritation to your dog. I cannot always tell at the time of grooming that this could happen. It can take up to 2-7 days later to occur. I will only know if you inform me of this happening and I will take a note of this on your dogs records so that I know this occurs in future. Also if any signs of skin redness occurs during our session I may break it up into several sessions to eliminate such further irritations.

Show clients I require weekly sessions on most hand stripping breeds
Pet Clients I require monthly sessions on most hand striping breeds

Due to this I have put together a consent form.

By signing this form you are showing that you are aware of everything involved and that I have gone through all your grooming options and that you understand the consequences that may occur due to this process.

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I confirm by signing this form that Steampup Parlor is not responsible for the after care of my dog and if they do react to the stripping of their coat. I am also aware of all the consequences to my dog being hand stripped and bathed all in one day and know all other options. I will also notify Steampup Parlor if my dog does have a reaction occur.

Dogs name________________________Owners name________________________

Signature__________________________________________Date_______________

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