Is this a bad idea?
I'm looking for help finding a good hands-free dryer-holder so my blow dryer can dry while I brush my Havanese.
Hi, I'm definitely not in the industry-- just a pet owner, and am looking for help.
I had a Havanese for 15 years. (Long, thin, fine, cottony hair that mats if I look at it sideways.) I just learned that for his entire life, I had been washing, drying, and brushing the fella incorrectly.
Now I am getting a new Havanese puppy.
So, here's what I'm thinking.
If I use one hand to hold up a line of hair, and one hand to line brush (or comb) one line at a time-- is there a proven way (or a tool, or device) that can hold my dryer in place to blow down on the part I am brushing?
Or is this a bad idea?
I just bought a new handheld dryer (not a pig with a hose force dryer, not a stand dryer) just a handheld blow dryer. (It's an extremely high speed blow dryer, but it's not anywhere close to pro quality.)
Background info:
(( The dryer weighs 2lbs. It's a 1300watt; 76,000 rpm blow dryer with a max air speed of around 138 mph (or 223 km/h, or 62 meters per second)-- or 59 m/s with the flat nozzle, or 56 m/s with the wide flat nozzle. I have never been able to find CFM specs for this particular dryer, but I'm estimated a max of 30 CFM. ))
(( I'm going to take this new pup to a professional groomer every four weeks. I will not be showing the dog and will not keep the dog in full coat, but longer than teddy bear. I'm going to do daily line brushing (with mists of ice on ice). I am going to do weekly baths: line brushing first (with ice on ice misting), greyhound comb check for mats, shampoo straight in the direction the hair grows (instead of swirling around in circles like I used to), rinse, condition (another step I didn't ever do in the past), rinse, squeeze/pat with towel (not swirl all around like I used to do), and then somehow position my new Neakasa F1 dryer where it can blow down the hair on the lower side of each line brush/comb. ))
So...
Would it be a bad idea to buy one of those goose-neck-looking table clip on holders to hold the dryer while I brush? I'm thinking it would need to be strong enough to hold the dryer without drooping or sagging, and stiff enough to reposition as needed.
If such a thing is a good idea-- is there a particular one that is leaps and bounds above the rest?