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...are their coats looking really ropey at the moment? Despite a daily brushing (and, today, a desperate and very unwelcomed backcombing :o) Dax's coat looks awful. I can easily get out several fistfuls of undercoat every session but she hardly looks any better for it!

I'm only glad that she appears to be staying a fairly short-coated example, I keep coming across big clumps of white hair out on walks where my neighbour has been brushing hers out. :p
 
blackcob said:
...are their coats looking really ropey at the moment? Despite a daily brushing (and, today, a desperate and very unwelcomed backcombing :o) Dax's coat looks awful. I can easily get out several fistfuls of undercoat every session but she hardly looks any better for it!

I'm only glad that she appears to be staying a fairly short-coated example, I keep coming across big clumps of white hair out on walks where my neighbour has been brushing hers out. :p
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Oh Cyrus looks like hell lol brush brush and he still has clumps of hair sticking out

Loco is completely out of coat at the moment and Diablo is looking tiptop no doubt he`ll start sprouting soon
 
My akita is loking fab, but I cheated as as she is getting older I clip her down so her hair is about medium by now, looks lovely and fluffy no dead hair to be seen, she does have incredibly thick hair (think hairier than a samoyed):eek: and she lives out as suffers severe heat exhaustion:D and even in the iddle of winte rin the pissing down rain she will lie outside rather then in her kennel and her hair becomes unmanageable and it goes rock hard, u can literraly knock on it:o she I take it off before the bad weather comes but enough for her to have a good body of hair from now till the end of winter.
 
I'm wondering if there's anything useful to be done with all the bloody hair - husky-fur draught excluders, anyone? :o

She's also changing colour, lots of tan highlights coming through, very bizarre. Like I say I don't think she's ever going to be particularly fuzzy but I'm curious as to how the finished winter coat will look. :)

Cayla, come anywhere near mine with clippers and I'll have you. :p Can still see the clipper line from when she was spayed months ago so dread to think how her full coat would grow back after being clipped, even if it would be kinder to my hoover. :p
 
blackcob said:
I'm wondering if there's anything useful to be done with all the bloody hair - husky-fur draught excluders, anyone? :o

She's also changing colour, lots of tan highlights coming through, very bizarre. Like I say I don't think she's ever going to be particularly fuzzy but I'm curious as to how the finished winter coat will look. :)

Cayla, come anywhere near mine with clippers and I'll have you. :p Can still see the clipper line from when she was spayed months ago so dread to think how her full coat would grow back after being clipped, even if it would be kinder to my hoover. :p
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Lol, must say when she was younger I would not have dreamed about clipping her, but I think her health is now more important and I cannot have her looking like a drown rat with smelly hair full of god knows what she lies in and clipping her encourages her to actually use her kennel as she actually must feel the cold without all the hair:D, but luckily I can keep on top of it and it grows back lovely I will deep condition her, blast her out and comb it all out, I would struggle to do that all year round if I let her coat stay in all year, esp as she is an outdoorer:D
My mams husky looked ok tonight when I visited but she may well have just brushed him out, the malamute was rather raggy looking.
 
What like this one BC?

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blackcob said:
Eugh, it looks so wrong! :eek: Poor lad/lass, what was the reason they were clipped out?
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She was rescued from someone who didn't want to deal with the grooming and keeping a dog in Florida heat so she was clipped. I think that is about 6 months after she was clipped so you can see how it screws up the growing of the coat.
 
You can damage the hair if you take clip them to far and the regrowth gets patchy or struggles to grow or changed texture, I don't go that far, she is still a hairy bear jsut not as much a hairy bear as she is when I start.
I will keep her maintained like this now she is gettin into the elderly years:)
 
CAYLA said:
You can damage the hair if you take clip them to far and the regrowth gets patchy or struggles to grow or changed texture, I don't go that far, she is still a hairy bear jsut not as much a hairy bear as she is when I start.
I will keep her maintained like this now she is gettin into the elderly years:)
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Haha cayla. Sorry if i made it seem like i was directing stuff at you.

You got to do what you got to do and i know you would never go quite as crazy as this person did.
 
katielou_houston said:
Haha cayla. Sorry if i made it seem like i was directing stuff at you.

You got to do what you got to do and i know you would never go quite as crazy as this person did.
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No no, I neva did:D
To be honest because not alot of people know what my akita is they dont even know she is clipped, cos she still resembles a teddy bear, even when her hair is halved, I dont think their is a hairier breed of dog:eek:
 
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