Hand stripping

[poiuytrewq]

Daughters dog, Basil is a Yorkie x he has a very long wirey coat with a much shorter softer undercoat.
I’ve told her he needs grooming. However I’m retracing my steps!
He’s nervy, dislikes being handled by new people.
Actually doesn’t get matted and is happy for me or her to remove to odd tangle, burrs (he’s like Velcro and gets lots!)
He doesn’t like being brushed but we can do the above by hand.
I’m told he needs stripping.
Why? As above he doesn’t get matted. He is stupidly scruffy but that’s cosmetic and we like it.
Is stripping like mane pulling? I can’t imagine him ever tolerating having hair pulled out.

 

[tda]

Yes it is like mane pulling , done well it looks really good, we used to have our Parsons terrier done locally , but then we once had our younger dog done by the same shop, but possibly not by the same person, and he appeared to be uncomfortable for a few days, rubbing himself on things and seemed sore, so now we just have them clipped instead.
But I also like the wild slightly scruffy look ?

 

[poiuytrewq]

Yes it is like mane pulling , done well it looks really good, we used to have our Parsons terrier done locally , but then we once had our younger dog done by the same shop, but possibly not by the same person, and he appeared to be uncomfortable for a few days, rubbing himself on things and seemed sore, so now we just have them clipped instead.
But I also like the wild slightly scruffy look ?

This is super wild. We can give him a Moho. Very cute, he doesn’t like hot weather, really hot but copes well in the house and we have an air con machine for when it’s terrible.

 

[planete]

I used to hand strip my Border Terrier. I did it when he was moulting, a bit at a time and he was happy to have it done. It was not like mane pulling, it just got the looseish hair off. I never yanked well attached hair off!

 

[Red-1]

Life is too short. I clip mine with the horse clippers.

It is the same as with horses, only a few weeks difference between a good clip and a bad one!

 

[MissTyc]

Agree that life is too short!
I do have a mane rake type thing for my terriers to tease out the loose hair. It leaves them looking very smart, but one of them tells me she doesn't like it!

 

[twiggy2]

It doesn't 'NEED' to be done, nothing bad will happen if its not done, if you and he are happy with things how they are don't worry.
Hand stripping should only be done when the guard hairs are loose so it shouldn't be like mane pulling.

 

[scats]

Hand stripping removes (mostly) dead and loose hair. Personally I hate doing it and I’m not entirely sure that dogs enjoy the whole thing either.
Looks nice when it’s done but I would prefer to whizz the clippers over them.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I used my solo comb on my border terrier, looked lovely

 

[Karran]

Don't touch unless you need to and I'd hand strip always if it suited breed. I made the mistake of going for the cheaper clipping option a few years back and it turned Mrs Spaniel into a wooly sheep!
I regret it so much as she had a beautiful short, shiny coat before. I get her hand stripped now but it'll never go back to previous!

 

[scats]

Don't touch unless you need to and I'd hand strip always if it suited breed. I made the mistake of going for the cheaper clipping option a few years back and it turned Mrs Spaniel into a wooly sheep!
I regret it so much as she had a beautiful short, shiny coat before. I get her hand stripped now but it'll never go back to previous!

This does happen occasionally with female spaniels unfortunately. But I also do lots of spaniel bitches that it never happens to. Luck of the draw unfortunately.

 

[Widgeon]

I do have a mane rake type thing for my terriers to tease out the loose hair. It leaves them looking very smart, but one of them tells me she doesn't like it!

Same here, I use a rake and that gets the worst of it out. Then I use scissors to trim the tummy and leg bits. Ours is a Cairn though so he probably has a lot more hair than a Yorkie - ours is handstripped once or twice a year to remove the enormous "mane" of loose hair that builds up. For a Yorkie that's anxious, I probably wouldn't bother with proper stripping, just use a brush, a rake, and some blunt ended scissors to gradually tidy up, and leave it at that.