clipping a JRT?

[hannah87]

Hi,
My new JRT Gizmo is rather hairy, not sure if hes a rough or broken coated chap but he moults for Engand and gets hot rather quickly!
I have been brushing him every day - when he came his fur was rather matted and dont think hed ever had a brush. I also bathed him.
But would it be so wrong to clip him?! His fur literally stands up, none of it lies flat!! Towards the skin it gets soft but the majority of it is a wirey rough crazy barnet!
Shall i clip him? I dont want to make him look even more bizarre! Here he is

 

[xxmariexx]

hi i had a jrt with similar coating, never thought of clipping her until one day i was riding in the field and she wondered off into a nearby field, she wouldnt return when i was done so went back on foot once i'd untacked the pony and she appeared to be stuck...so i climbed over the fence and basically she had got covered in them sticky bomb things from the weeds, sorry dont know the proper name for them! spent about half hour trying to pick them all off (when i say she was covered she actually couldnt move from them being so tangled in her coat!) so i got a pair of hair clippers put a grade on them and clipped her whole coat off! i tought she looked really good! totally different looking dog! i think yours will look really good as he doesnt look very hairy round his ears so this woulld save you struggling to get them neat! i would just make sure he wont mind first, luckily mine seemed to love it! it did look a bit funny the first couple of days, bit like when you clip a horse!

 

[deicinmerlyn]

Noooo, don't, he looks fine - in fact both of them are identical to my two!

 

[Cliqmo]

My Parents JRT has a similar coat so I give her a whizz over with some Nicky Clarke clippers with #3 blades attached

She loves it and jumps up on the kitchen chair when I turn the clippers on now

No "before" pics unfortunately (I've been doing it for years

) but here is an "after"