How to Groom a Peacock Poodle

Poodles need frequent grooming since they are dogs with thick fur. However, another type of grooming, known as canine creative grooming, has groomers going to arduous lengths to transform dogs into other animals, such as lions, camels, pandas, ponies -- and even peacocks. The process is time-consuming and requires a lot of imagination, ingenuity and patience. To make a peacock poodle seems challenging, but it can be done.

Things You'll Need

  • Scissors
  • Trimmer
  • Sketch pen
  • Vegetable-based or nontoxic hair dyes or food colors
  • Liquid glue
  • Glitter
  • Peacock feathers
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Instructions

    • 1

      Use scissors to cut the fur from the head, making it look like a round fur cap. Use the trimmer to remove almost all the hair from the snout. Then cut the fur on the ears so they look like large bells.

    • 2

      Trim the fur on the front legs like two thick cylinders or tubes. The base of the front legs should be shaped straight and parallel to the ground.

    • 3

      Make the wings of the peacock. Draw a curve with a sketch pen like a chicken wing, starting from above the front leg on the body and ending on the back of the poodle, right in the middle, which is the midpoint of the span between the chest of the dog and the tail. Trim the hair to the skin along this line to make this portion look like wings.

    • 4

      Draw teardrops that look like the "eye" shape of the peacock feather on the remaining half of the back of the poodle and the back legs. Trim the hair around these shapes to the skin so the teardrops stand out from the body. Trim the fur on the lower part of the leg in the shape of a bell.

    • 5

      Dye the fur of the poodle using a nontoxic or vegetable dye or food color. Use a peacock blue color on the head and the front part of the body. Color the teardrops bright orange.

    • 6

      Apply glue to the middle of the teardrops and fashion the "eyes" with glitter. Use different colors so they look bright and attractive.

    • 7

      Attach peacock feathers to the back of the poodle with glue. Attach the feathers in a fan shape.