the main brush I'm going to be using is an evolution brand and it's a slicker brush it's got a little button on the back that releases excess further works really well so I actually like to brush a lot and this is NASA Great Pyrenees so we're talking like a pretty serious thick heavy coat and he has two layers of course in under there and in a top coat because he's built for cold weather but we don't live in a cold climate so it's really important for me to to keep his coat right and we've actually just went off-grid about 30 days ago so he's well overdue for some grooming now that the busyness of getting settled into a new place as sort of subsided a little now here's the slicker brush and you could see the button on the back that button works really great for releasing the excess hair and the technique I use for it is being he has an undercoat also where it works really well is let's get back to the video here there it is what I try and do is I sort of picture a row and I slowly move my hand as you can see I'm kind of moving my hand up his coat and as I do that I'm kind of making my way across in a row and that pulls all the excess loose hair out of his undercoat and then every once in a while I'll give up kind of a long stroke like that to sort of just look at all that hair that's him I said a one little spot so I'm gonna pick a dog like this I think the best way to go about it is to just kind of break it down in sections so that's what I usually do with him and I'm going for the worst section first which on on Pyrenees it's the it's the back hind quarter area that's really thick they get matted if you let it go it gets like dreads in it and all that so I'm kind of sticking with the rows and I really like that technique so I just kind of do rows working my way up and then follow up with some long broad strokes and then I'll just move on to another section and use the same technique fortunately I have pretty good sized hands so I can kind of cover a lot of ground holding back one area and you see how I'm doing like just it's just like I'm just working a row and then I go up a little bit and work a row back and forth and then follow up with that long stroke just to really grab any excess layer off the top but with these brushes you you don't want to really dig really hard because you definitely irritate your dog's skin or ORS I'm sure you could stab them with the needles if you really pushed hard enough so you don't want to do that of course now the hindquarters is all done and as usual if you don't have a short-haired dog I mean they're great for maintenance which I have a short-haired dog too and she takes about two swipes to brush and she's done it's really just - she just likes it really there's not a lot of meat to to brush like I like I have to do this guy yeah well that brush works I love this little brush the evolution brush I think I got it at like pets mark maybe your Petco but I know they're on like Amazon they're real cheap and its really a great really great brush and I've had it for a year now so it's it's not broken still works the release trigger still works on it well so I'd say for 10 12 bucks however much it was a definitely a good brush to have and if you have a dog with an undercoat this is the brush you gotta have gotta have this I usually mix it up when when I'm all done I'll usually go over them with a regular dog brush just a really long strokes but this is really getting in there and taking care of business that's what I love about this brush and I don't know about your dog but this guy has no problem he was if I took three hours to sit there and brush him he'd sit there for three hours being that how this slicker brush is so good for just removing excess hair and undercoat hair then I really like the idea of going over the top with the put that long stroke because that really just tops it off getting rid of that that excess hair it's just really the long strokes really are just kind of grazing the top if you see here I'm not like trying to really dig in when I do those long strokes I'm just just grazing across the top and it cleans so much excess hair off the top coat also so here I'm just kind of doing the rows again and I think that really is the best technique and if you can get your arm flat on the dog and get like a really wide space like that like I have right here you could have it done in no time at all just make like this wide row and slowly slowly keep working it up cross across across and you can see just from that little section how much hair is built up on that slicker brush good golly that's a lot of hair and behind the ears on a long-haired dog like this it tends to that's where it tends to get any matted and kind of like those twisted dreads and I usually just cut those out and kind of try and keep his hair short behind the ears but even still I'll switch to like a regular brush to get the hairbrush back there but I don't want those needles to like grab and pull them and then that's gonna you know anything it turns to be an unpleasant experience all the way leads to maybes you know on your dog to be apprehensive about getting his hairbrush you want them to always think it's gonna feel good I'm working up the back of his neck and see what I mean about just sections it's all sections I should be grabbing that other brush to get behind his ear here in a minute oh it's really funny I can see he's just like getting brushed is just like a sedative this is the worst of all on the back kind area man this is the thickest hair I think I might have ever even seen on a dog let alone tried to brush but it's real important to keep him somewhat together back there not only pyrenees is but all long-haired dogs that have really big thick hair back there I guess number one it's you know so when a dog does his business so it stays a clean operation it's pretty important but you can Harbor a lot of dirt and it's it's important to help keep them cool all over - so I also take the scissors once in a while and just I keep this really short back there because that just turns into a real mess I mean you really you need like a pair of lop shears to cut it if you let it go and up here nieces hair will grow so unbelievably long back here on his hind there I try not to get too fussy just short it's keeping that hair short just like keeps a lot a lot of problems away so every time I give them a good brush instead of having to go through a big project let's just take a few snips and that seems to kind of like maintain them and it doesn't look it on the screen but the hair back there is very afro ish it's really thick and really really like frizz afro type of hair under there what's kind of funny is hey you could tell them that like a refined groomer I'm just like cutting away it would be really funny to take him to a dog show and get left out of the place now I just kind of take the regular brush and long-stroke kind of go for like the big picture I think it's really important to get the top coat and focus on that as much as the undercoat because when it comes to your dog getting ventilation through his first hit all counts it's a lot of work a big dog like this he's about a hundred pounds he's not incredibly big for a pyrenees for his breed but still he's a huge dog a lot of ground to cover there you go there's about 1/2 of the trimmings for the day there he's happy now turned dog over repeat and do the other half