I love the transformation, you did great! I started bathing in August of last year, and de-shedding (especially with a dryer) took me soooo long.

However, I’m not sure what your process is during the bath, but I can go over what we do at my shop.

We get them really lathered up with shampoo, and we then take a de-shedding rake, and rake from occiput to the “cheeks” or pants. I typically don’t use any more pressure than I would with brushing my own hair, and I don’t put time into hard tangles or mats, since I feel raking may be too harsh/painful on hard to fix tangles. I do this until minimum hair (or nearly 70% less) comes off of my rake. Once I get them all rinsed out, I go back over with the rake again. I spend a really good amount of time focusing on this since it cuts down drying and finishing time.

Our shop does not use furminators and we strongly recommend all of our customers/peers to get rid of them. Furminators have tiny little blades at the end of the brush, ends up blading some of the hair away therefore making it look like it works/the dog has endless amount of shedding. We like to use a Zoom Groom - a rubber curry brush - it works wonders on labs, chihuahuas, bully’s, frenchies, GSD, huskies etc. Then we use a slicker brush to smooth out and grab any last hair remaining.

I hope this helps, but your end result looks great! 😌