Wahl Mini Arco Pet Trimmer, Champagne

I was hoping for more longevity for the price paid, but the second time I tried to use these clippers they utterly failed. Admittedly, my cats have a dense coat, but they wouldn’t even get through the topcoat. Totally disappointed, and out $80.

These are perfect to trim around my pups paws and potty trail. She doesn’t normally like her feet messed with, but let’s me do this with no trouble. At first she was a little uneasy, but quickly adjusted.

Will this clipper work for my dog’s nose area and around her pads? I have a clipper that is a little bigger but am wanting to use more than a (rounded-tip) scissors on her nose. Also I purchased a tiny comb that helps get her eye boogers out of the hair by her eyes. I use a q-tip first and twist the q-tip and the still-wet boogers come right out. But the dried ones take hot water and/or wipes, along with the fine-tooth comb. The clippers would keep her hair short maybe reducing the dried out ones. Also these clippers might be perfect for her belly too. All this between the professional grooming appointments. Let me know what you think.

I have a 20-ish pound miniature schnauzer mix who has a mixture of shorter fur and long flyaway fur. I initially bought the Wahl U-Clip for grooming my dog and it works well, but the fact that I had to keep it plugged in, how heavy it was, and the width of it made it a little cumbersome at times. I tried buying this to use primarily on her paws/face area, but I've found I like using it all over her. I bought this around July, and I might have charged it when I first got it, but I've never charged it since. And I've been able to do trims on her numerous times. It's pretty quiet, light enough that it doesn't strain my wrist (I have somewhat weak wrists), and I like that it gives 2 guards that I have a 20-ish pound miniature schnauzer mix who has a mixture of shorter fur and long flyaway fur. I initially bought the Wahl U-Clip for grooming my dog and it works well, but the fact that I had to keep it plugged in, how heavy it was, and the width of it made it a little cumbersome at times. I tried buying this to use primarily on her paws/face area, but I've found I like using it all over her. I bought this around July, and I might have charged it when I first got it, but I've never charged it since. And I've been able to do trims on her numerous times. It's pretty quiet, light enough that it doesn't strain my wrist (I have somewhat weak wrists), and I like that it gives 2 guards that have 4 levels on them so all you have to do is flip it to the size you want. It's nice not having 4 different guards when 2 suffices. The only issue I've had is I want to figure out if I can get even more guards to do different lengths for different areas of my dog, or maybe different blade lengths that could screw in? Not because what they provided is insufficient, but because now I think it's fun to groom her so I kind of want to branch out even more. And since my newest relaxation is watching endless hours of dog grooming sessions on YouTube, I've started wondering what the equivalent is to their 30 blade, 20 blade, 10 blade, etc, to what we get with the Wahl Mini Arco. I haven't figured out the best way to trim in between her paw pads or her sanitary area properly without skipping the guards but I get really nervous about skipping the guards so I'm super careful or just leave it longer than strictly necessary. I will get it figured out eventually. So far I've had zero problems. My biggest issue was I found it too fun and easy to trim her and accidentally selected too short of a guard and I think I cut her fur shorter than I should have for her type of coat. This was only a problem because her temperature fluctuated a little more than normal; there was no problem whatsoever with the trimmer itself. She has never been hurt by it and in fact, in a weird turn of events, my dog actually loves getting groomed and will lay down letting me randomly groom her whenever I want. So that was a user error of me being ignorant of coat types, not an issue with the trimmer. I mention only for others to keep that in mind to look up best grooming practices for their dog if, like me, they'd never groomed their dog in their life prior to 2020. As my last testament to why I love this - I was primarily using this instead of the U-Clip most of this summer, and I had to bring my dog into the vet a couple of times. Even when I did my crappiest job (cutting it shorter in patches than I should have because I didn't realize the guard looked longer than it was to my amateur eyes), I had brought her in and the vet tech commented on how good she looked. I said I groomed her myself and figured it was really obvious and she said no way, it looked really good and way better than most of the self-grooms she'd seen coming in. Part of this is thanks to my dog's coat and coloring which makes mistakes a little less obvious, and I'm sure is part is also thanks to me watching hours and hours of dog grooming and picking up some tips from that - but I really think a large part is also that this trimmer works super well, and so even in really amateur hands it gave a good result. ymmv, but fwiw I love this thing. I rarely leave reviews on sites but I like this trimmer enough that I had to wax poetic about it for awhile. … more

This little trimmer can get all the areas that a larger trimmer can't. Such as, bottom of paws, between the eyes/bridge of the nose. With small dogs this makes it easier.

I heard about this Arco trimmer from a video about grooming Sealyhams. I just purchased it and am very happy with it. It made trimming the hair between paws SO easy and I also used it in a few places around his ears.

I don't recommend these trimmers. They aren't quite like they say. I bought a cheaper set and they aren't as loud as these ones. And they do a better job than the Wahl one.

Im basically trying to return my item lol Honestly tried it once and it work for a sec literally and stopped ... I didn’t work for me.

This little clipper came fully charged. It is quiet and efficient. I clipped our Standard Poodles face and feet in no time. Only problem was a bit of razor burn, my fault, not the clipper. Pay attention, it works slick!!!

Purchased to do the minor trimming of my border collies between the times I take them to our groomer.