IdéalDog

IdéalDog is Chadog's grooming tool range. No shampoo, no cosmetics: only what you hold in your hand — stripping knives, combs, slicker brushes, rakes, nail clippers. Sixty-seven active references, close to half of them strippers.

The stripping knives, the heart of the range

A stripping knife is not a clipper: it pulls the dead hair out instead of cutting it, and that is what keeps the texture and the colour of a harsh coat. IdéalDog grades them by tooth count and by hand.

For finishing, the extra fine knives, including the 40-tooth. For everyday work, the fine ones — 19 teeth, red — and the medium ones, at 14 teeth, blue or 33 teeth. To take down a thick undercoat, the wide ones, such as the 17-tooth.

Two things you rarely find. The left-handed knives are true mirror models, not ambidextrous compromises: fine 19 teeth and fine 22 teeth. And the ear knife at 28 teeth, narrow, for the ear leather and the top of the head.

Alongside the IdéalDog knives sits the Coat Prince range — wooden handle, curved stainless blades — from the super fine 26-tooth to the wide 20-tooth for big dogs, by way of the fine 32-tooth for big dogs. It all sits under stripping knives and tools.

The combs

The steel combs are the second family: double carbon steel 16 cm, double aluminium 19 cm, double stainless, plus the fancy ones at 16 cm and 25 cm for the show bench. The alternating fixed teeth comb and the wave comb open a mat without snapping the hair.

The curry combs and other combs bring together the curry comb, the magic curry comb with 20 teeth and the magic combs, in a small model or with a handle. The flea combs come in two versions, with a handle and extra fine.

Undercoat, slickers and dematting

The undercoat rakes run from Small to Extra Large, joined by the model with alternating retractable teeth, which goes back in the drawer without catching.

Among the slicker brushes, the double-sided Biflex, the flexible one, and two self-cleaning models whose plate retracts at a press: Small and semi-hard pins.

Bath, nails and the rest

The microfibre towels dry without rubbing — pink, burgundy — and the quick-dry towel rinses out and goes again. The massage brushes are used during the bath, cleansing or with a handle.

The nail clippers cover the cat model, the flat one and the non-slip professional. Add to that the metal ear clip, the seven-piece cat grooming kit, the detangling comb with a wooden handle and the non-slip stainless steel bowls.

Choosing a stripping knife

The rule fits in one sentence: the finer the teeth, the slower and the more precise the work. Take the bulk down with the wide one, go over it with the medium, finish with the extra fine. If your hand has to force, the teeth are too close for that area — the tool is not at fault. And if you are left-handed, take a real left-handed model: both the blade and the grip are mirrored.