The Nash System of Pet Care Education

There are over 150 breeds of dogs recognized by the American Kennel Club, and as a professional, you need to know proper styling for everyone, as well as mixed breeds and new designer breeds. Feeling overwhelmed? Then this is the course for you. 

The breeds are organized into specific categories, allowing you to create proper profiles, balance and symmetry, and even to correct conformational faults, with ease. 

Need consistency and a higher standard of excellence in your salon? This is the course for you and for all your bathers, groomers and stylists seeking a methodology through which to understand the vast variety of dogs and the way to properly style each breed correctly by coat type.

The complex, creative, and sophisticated world of styling studied in this course include:

• The basic coat growth patterns and coat growth types you need to know to successfully style the dog.

• What breeds demand intricate styling, and what breeds need to be left in a natural state.

• Anatomy markers are and how they help us understand conformation and styling.

• The anatomy markers of the head, body, and legs.

• What we mean by body ratios.

• How the relationship between the parts of the dog's body helps us to define and understand conformation.

• How the ratios of muzzle to skull, height to length, and withers to elbow and elbow to ground define correct conformation of all dogs.

• The five body types can be used to describe all dogs.

• Why dogs are placed in the square body type, square terrier body type, rectangle body type, speed body type, and short-legged body type.

• Why we study the conformation of fronts and the one rear type.

• The significance of the Gothic window when viewing dogs from the front and rear.

• Why fronts are divided into the straight, horseshoe, bully, and low front types? Why is there only one rear type?

• Why it is important to master the basic trim styles.

• What the differences and similarities in styling short coat types, smooth coat types, medium smooth coat types, Nordic coat types, rough coat types, and rough Nordic coat types.

• What breeds receive these trim styles and why.

• How you style the various components of the dog and what specific tools and techniques must you master to be able to create these styles.

• What the various breed standards require that make these components instantly recognizable signature for the breeds.

• What variations are unique to specific breeds and why.

• What the various trim styles for the head, ear, neck, rear, chest, legs, foot, and tail.

Trim Styles

• Body Contour 

• Corded 

• Full Coated Jacket 

• Hairless 

• Lion 

• Long and Flowing 

• Long Legged Terrier Jacket 

• Scruffy Jacket 

• Short Legged Terrier Jacket

• Silhouette Enhancement 

• Sporting Saddle 

• Sporting Jacket