At Animal One, the dog and cat grooming service is available in Milan.
In our three stores in the centre of Milan, our expert specialists in the sector will be able to listen to your necessities and advise you on the best service for your pet
What is grooming for?
Dog and cat grooming treatments are of fundamental importance for keeping your pet healthy.
Their hygiene is important: don’t underestimate it.
The various treatments by type enhance their beauty, keep the dog/cat healthy and have excellent maintenance.
When we talk about the health of our four-legged friends, we tend to immediately think of the environment in which we let them live, what we feed them, and how to best accommodate their character and habits, but often grooming goes into the background. Instead, it is a very important aspect, at the basis of our friend’s well-being.
Animal One guarantees you the best grooming service for your dog or cat in Milan by offering basic cleaning activities, ranging from washing to brushing the coat, from cutting the fur to the hygiene of the various parts of the body, such as ears, teeth and nail trimming.
Dogs and cats must be groomed not only for purely aesthetic reasons but also and above all for health and well-being reasons: keep them in shape and protect them from the risks of infections or parasites.
Treatments for dogs
Animal One’s dog grooming service in Milan includes for all breeds the control and trimming of the nails and the cleaning of the ears with specific products.
To help cohabitation, it is preferable to take your dog periodically to a professional who will remove the hair with specific brushes.
Select the category belonging to your dog to find out which services are most suitable for him:
Belongs to this category: Maltese, Poodle, Yorkshire Terrier, etc…
Characteristics
They are dogs that have a coat with infinite growth, never lose hair, and often have problems with mats and tangles. It is advisable to educate them from an early age to be brushed and washed constantly, their hair must be shortened periodically in order to facilitate maintenance and allow them greater movement.
The hair of this type of dog should not be shortened below a centimetre and a half (except in special cases), this is to ensure the dog has greater protection from external agents (insects, pollution, sun rays, humidity), correct thermoregulation, free the genitals and ensure a better view.
Treatments
- Thorough cleaning with nitrogenated water and use of specific products;
- Keratin treatments (to smooth the hair, prevent knots, increase the duration of hair cleaning);
- Interdigital cleaning of the paws;
- Ear cleaning (dead hair export);
- Breed specific cuts;
- Untangle Mats and Tangles;
- Hydromassage.
This category includes breeds such as the Border Collie, Husky, Maremmano Abbruzzese, Catalan, Alaskan Malamute, Pyrenean Shepherd, Scottish Shepherd, Finnish Spitz, etc.
Characteristics
They are usually dogs that have a double-coated and two layers of fur, which they will tend to shed throughout the year (especially for those who live in the city). Precisely for this reason they need monthly grooming, both to remove excess hair and to create micro-wetsuits. This will greatly help decrease the range in the two main seasons: spring and autumn.
Why take care of the coat?
Lacking to take care of the coat can lead to:
- dermatitis;
- promote the formation of painful mets;
- inability to thermoregulate;
- hair loss indoors;
- formation of knots full of dirt and dulling of the hair
Specific treatments
- Bath with suitable and specific products with hair conditioning;
- Removal of the molt;
- Minimization of the molt during the year;
- Thorough skin check;
- They are often distrustful dogs and do not like manipulation from the outside, it is advisable to get them used to them from an early age.
Belongs to this category: Wirehaired dachshund, jack Russell terrier, fox terrier, etc…
Characteristics
This category of dog needs periodic removal of mature coat from the skin, eliminating annoying knots and dead hair from the coat. This treatment will have a relaxing effect on your dog, as it will remove dead hair from the coat.
Suggestion:
If the rough-haired dog is not periodically sheared, it will undergo a more or less rapid change in the quality of the coat until it is transformed into a dog with a soft, knotty and dull coat which will tend to get dirty much faster. Through periodic grooming, it will be possible to ensure healthy maintenance and specific care of its coat.
Treatments:
- Stripping;
- Trimming, according to the breed standard;
- Special shampoo.
Shepherd dogs belong to this category. They are usually double-coated dogs with very radical moults. However, they often live in the city and it tends to lose their hair throughout the year.
Characteristics
These dogs need at least monthly grooming to remove excess hair and create micro-mutes in such a way as to decrease the range in the two main seasons, which are spring and autumn. They need periodic grooming to keep some parts of the coat in order to improve their management at home, for example keeping the fringes, the ears free from hair and the interdigital hair shaved. Each breed has typical grooming that serves to enhance its beauty and keep the dog healthy for excellent maintenance.
Why take care of the coat?
Lack to take care of the coat can lead to dermatitis, the formation of painful knots, inability to thermoregulate, hair loss indoors, formation of dirty knots and the dulling of the coat.
Treatments:
- Bath with suitable and specific products with hair conditioning;
- Removal of the coat;
- Minimization of the moult during the year;
- In-depth skin check;
- Brush out undercoat:
- Striming;
- Typification of the standard of the dog.
They are dogs that need to learn to contain their exuberance to allow the groomer to use the tools safely.
This category includes Labradors, rot wailers, pugs.
Characteristics
Usually they are double-haired dogs with very radical moults which, however, living in the city tend to shed throughout the year. These are dogs that need at least monthly grooming to remove excess hair and create micromutes in order to decrease the range in the two main seasons which are spring and autumn.
These dogs need periodic grooming to keep some points of the coat in order and to improve its management at home, for example by keeping fringes, the ears free from fur and the interdigital hair shaved. Each breed has a typical grooming which serves to enhance its beauty and keep the dog healthy for an excellent maintenance.
This category of dog requires constant monthly cleaning to remove dead hair by bathing and massaging with suitable brushes. It is advisable to get him used to it as a puppy.
Why take care of the coat?
Lack to take care of the coat can lead to dermatitis, the formation of painful knots, inability to thermoregulate, hair loss indoors, the formation of dirty knots and the dulling of the coat. The hair is very difficult to remove from the fabrics.
Treatments
- Bath with suitable and specific products with hair conditioning;
- Removal of the coat;
- Minimization of the moult during the year;
- In-depth skin check;
- Trimming;
- Typification of the standard of the dog.
This category includes dogs such as the greyhound, pincher,
Characteristics
They are the dogs with the most hair loss ever, they always have two main moults throughout the year. They absolutely cannot be shavedd in order not to damage the hair and to prevent them from easily incurring dermatitis. To help coexistence with your pet, it is preferable to remove dead hair with specific brushes through periodic grooming sessions.
Trattamenti
- Removing dead hair;
- Baths with specific products to limit hair loss.
Treatments for cats:
The cat grooming service in Milan offered by Animal One includes the following treatments:
- Jointing;
- Slotting;
- Hair maintenance; –
- Bathroom with specific products; –
- Hygienic treatment
Why is washing important for a cat?
Thanks to regular washing, it is possible to avoid letting the cat ingest tons of dirty hair, consequently creating intestinal boluses.
With a grooming treatment, the cat will have the possibility to be:
- Cleaned and washed with special and specific shampoos for his coat;
- Conditioned (specific conditioners);
- Combed eliminating the dirty and dead hair;
- Dried in a delicate way so as not to frighten the animal and not to traumatize it.
Each breed has more suitable and specific treatments, our experts will be able to identify and recommend the right job to do.
Our advice
It is advisable to get your cat used to grooming treatments from an early age, in this way, you can get them used to healthier maintenance.
Ozone Therapy
The ozone hydromassage is one of the dog grooming services that we offer in our stores in Milan. Ozone therapy is a type of treatment that is carried out in special tanks for dogs with the addition of oxygen enriched with ozone for the care of the dog’s skin and coat.
The benefits related to the antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of these gases are of various types:
- healing acceleration;
- tissue regeneration;
- restore the natural cellular defenses;
- cellular regeneration thanks to its disinfectant properties;
- reduction of the risk of transmission of diseases due to fungi and bacteria;
- improve the appearance of the hair, making it more resistant and shiny.
Therefore it is suitable as adjuvant therapy in many pathological conditions of the skin such as redness, itching, dermatitis, skin irritations, seborrhoea, malassezia, pyoderma and dandruff.
The ozone bath being a curative treatment, it is recommended to do it in several sessions extended over time.