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Thanks for the advice. We do take him to the groomer, but since we've moved we're having a hard time finding one that we like/can afford/Lucky likes.

The last place we took him to, I said "He needs a bath, his nails cut, his glands expressed, dry him and brush him out, leave his ears COMPLETELY alone, he's prone to ear infections."

They gave him a bath. Nothing else. WTF? I can do that at home!

ETA: He does have long toe hair. I'm deathly afraid of hurting him with clippers, and I believe you when you say I could hurt him with the pedipaws, too. I almost always defer to the professionals because I don't think I could live with myself if I hurt him.