Here you are, ready to buy the best dog clippers that are within your budget but you are hesitating, just before clicking that buy button. Should I get cordless dog clippers or corded ones?

Before thinking of having a cord or not, you should make sure you are going to invest in dog clippers that will indeed ensure the safety of your pet and a clean cut throughout. A dog’s skin is very sensitive to heat so you want to make sure your future clippers will remain cool even after an extended running period. More than that, most dogs aren’t groomed from puppyhood so they will get anxious and even run away from you once the clippers start buzzing near their head!

Several dog breeds such as Huskies, Lapphunds or even Chow Chow have undercoats requiring some pre-grooming and de-shedding before the cut; while other dogs belong to wirehaired breeds, with coarser hairs. These different types of coats need different types of combs, blades and at times, clippers.

There is already a great buying guide and review of the best dog clippers on Breeding Business, so let's refocus on the common hesitation between our two types of dog clippers: cordless versus and corded.

Cordless Dog Clippers — Better For The Groomer

Pet clippers without a cord run on a battery that you will need to charge fully before use — it is super convenient for infrequent and planned grooming sessions. However, if you have a few dogs to groom and it’s unexpected, you will encounter challenges with the battery.

Yet, when they are fully charged, these little beasts are pretty amazing to use. First of all, you can turn around your subject without strangling it, but not just that, each of your movements becomes a lot freer and lighter. By having more leeway in each touch, you can work with more precision and care.

Because they are cordless, such dog clippers often lack in additional speed settings — you know, that booster button. This is problematic when dealing with a super dense and matted coat; a lot of juice has to be delivered to the motor in order to keep a high quality of cut through such dense coarse coats.

Corded Pet Clippers — Better For The Cut

Despite being a little less convenient to use, corded clippers offer an extremely useful advantage that can improve your pet’s cut by a lot.

To start with, corded clippers deliver at a constant speed without slowing down because of the battery emptying itself out. Regardless of how coarse and how dense the coat is, you can definitely count on a solid motor cutting through smoothly.

Thanks to the motor being given the juice to deliver so much, many corded grooming clippers come with variable speed settings so you can go with a gentler cut for definitions or a stronger one for the bulk of the trim.

Since corded clippers have more power and can get their motor more easily heated, the materials used tend to be upgraded in order to manage and get rid of such excess heat.

Besides this particular advantage — and it matters quite a bit — corded pet clippers are just like their cordless counterparts.

So, Which Clippers Should I Get?

If you are a home groomer only handling your own pets and perhaps your neighbours’ dogs, go with cordless dog clippers. You will benefit a lot more from these than you will lose.

If you are more serious about these grooming endeavours and decide to perhaps welcome more dogs on your grooming table, go with corded clippers because you will need that high level of consistency for all of your cuts. Plus, there is a chance of welcoming a difficult coarse coat for a grooming session which would require fully loaded clippers to be smoothly trimmed.

Three brands are on this battlefield and they all offer great products: Andis, Wahl and Oster.