A woman used to work for me part time and ownded 2 OESDs. She was the only person I ever knew who arranged her working hours around her Old English Sheep Dogs’ grooming schedule. To her, getting the dogs groomed, washed, dried, brushed was more important than her pay check and cost more too!
Our Sheepie is only three years old, and still full of puppy energy. We had a local (mobile) groomer cut her hair the first couple of times, but that is $85 per visit.
We got the model of the shears and now cut her hair when needed. We try not to let it get too long here in Texas. Actual brushing her takes over an hour when it is long. I don’t know why Rush has three.