Latest articles from Candid Canine (http://www.candidcanine.info) http://www.candidcanine.info 2012-05-23T02:25:12+01:00 text/html 2008-05-05T00:08:31+01:00 http://www.candidcanine.info http://www.candidcanine.info/shih-tzu-coat-a208.html The pins of your brush should make contact with the skin at the beginning of the brush stroke. From there, make a straight stroke outward to the ends of the hair. Try to teach your dog (and I say this in a "do as I say, and not do as I do," because this is a very hard thing for me to teach my dogs to do....but that is me....and...