brushing your dog
brushing your dog
My 3 year old britt has a pretty long and wild coat on her. Her winter coat is slowly coming out with the help of a brush. does anyone have any tips that can help me get this under control. she looks like wild sewer dog with her hair going all directions
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Re: brushing your dog
shave her for the summer months
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Re: brushing your dog
You can clip her or just brush till she is through shedding and she will look much better as soon as the dead hair is gone. Plus dogs should be brushed every few weeks whether they are shedding or not. That helps bring out the oil to the skin and coat a lot more than diet changes everyone talks about.JasonW77 wrote:My 3 year old britt has a pretty long and wild coat on her. Her winter coat is slowly coming out with the help of a brush. does anyone have any tips that can help me get this under control. she looks like wild sewer dog with her hair going all directions
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+1 to that I have 5 britts and there all shaved for the summer its also funny to see what they look like under all that furbirddog1968 wrote:shave her for the summer months
Re: brushing your dog
gittrdonebritts wrote:+1 to that I have 5 britts and there all shaved for the summer its also funny to see what they look like under all that furbirddog1968 wrote:shave her for the summer months
Wonder who started this shaved thing that is actually clipping like we do with every other animal and have done for years with a clipper and not a razor. No wonder we confuse people.
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Oh sorry I "CLIP" all my dogs lol :roll: :roll:ezzy333 wrote:gittrdonebritts wrote:+1 to that I have 5 britts and there all shaved for the summer its also funny to see what they look like under all that furbirddog1968 wrote:shave her for the summer months
Wonder who started this shaved thing that is actually clipping like we do with every other animal and have done for years with a clipper and not a razor. No wonder we confuse people.
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You can use a Furminator (or similar product) to get the dead fur out. It works well on the Britts
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Re: brushing your dog
Mars Coat King or similar if there is matting. Or just a plain old razor comb to break it up before the Furminator.sully511 wrote:You can use a Furminator (or similar product) to get the dead fur out. It works well on the Britts
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Sell the britt and buy a shorthair or pointer and you.won't have to....
Re: brushing your dog
My setter likes to be brushed but she loves when I get out the vacuum. I put the brush attachment on and I get tired of it long before she does! I do think I may "clip" her this summer though. She will probably look like a differnt dog because she has alot of orange ticking under that white coat.
Re: brushing your dog
Best thing I ever bought is a shedding blade, took out incredible amounts of the hair the first time I used it. I'm still gonna shave, sorry clip, him later this month but the blade helped in the mean time.
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Casey, I keep looking at your comment about the pig. I think teaching a pig to point or hunt mushrooms can't be much different than teaching her to sing. And I know both have been accomplished. I've taught my lab to sing.... or quite possibly vise versa. I think you should get a pig.....
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Hope you all have better clipping skills than my daughter has, she clipped her house dog the other day and when here daughter got home, age 2 1/2, she said " mommy look, Jack has his hair on croocked"! Good luck!
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Re: brushing your dog
sully511 wrote:You can use a Furminator (or similar product) to get the dead fur out. It works well on the Britts
I second that! We shave yearly, right about now...better make that call one of these days. Then we use the Furminator to help control the shedding around the turn of the seasons. I like throwing the Furminator in the hunting bag to help get the birrs out of the coat after a day in the field. It is a little pricey, but worth every penny!
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Which size furminator do you folks use on Brits??
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We have the medium, it seems to be about right. With this size I'm able to get the legs, neck, etc. I think a larger one would limit the "access" in some of those tighter areas
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Re: brushing your dog
Medium
I also Shave my dogs
I also Shave my dogs
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Perfect!!
I ordered the medium furminator.
I found it on Amazon for 14.98 SHIPPED!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
Cory
I ordered the medium furminator.
I found it on Amazon for 14.98 SHIPPED!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
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NO knine you clip your dogs ezzy made it clear that we don't shave we clip lol :roll: :roll:kninebirddog wrote:Medium
I also Shave my dogs
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Oh yes I do before
After
After
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Its funny how awkward and out of place they look after they are
down closeshaved
Re: brushing your dog
Looks good! What kind of razor do you use?kninebirddog wrote:Oh yes I do before
After
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A number 7 blade and I have both Osters and Andes Shavers
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Re: brushing your dog
You don't find this coat type waves out when it grows back in?
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Only if they were spayed or neutered do I ever notice any drastic change in coats and then yes they can look like they were put in the dryer on fluff
Oh PS Ezzy..I rather see and use the term shaved when closely cutting a dogs coat down as I always think of clipping as prepping for a show but better that then reading that a litter was Out of a male..that one gets me about as much as calling an American Brittany a spaniel
Oh PS Ezzy..I rather see and use the term shaved when closely cutting a dogs coat down as I always think of clipping as prepping for a show but better that then reading that a litter was Out of a male..that one gets me about as much as calling an American Brittany a spaniel
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Which do you like better ? I have been a huge fan Andis since I bought my super speed 2 when I was fitting Show cattle, had it for years and it works great I have the wide T-84 on mine.kninebirddog wrote:A number 7 blade and I have both Osters and Andes Shavers
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Totally missed this. I've served my time in swine, having grown up around a bunch of cowhick 4Hers and FFAers. Show hogs are clipped, by the way.wills1235 wrote:Casey, I keep looking at your comment about the pig. I think teaching a pig to point or hunt mushrooms can't be much different than teaching her to sing. And I know both have been accomplished. I've taught my lab to sing.... or quite possibly vise versa. I think you should get a pig.....
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that looks a heck of a lot shorter than a number 7. maybe i'm just thinking of this backwards, i thought the smaller the number the shorter it cut?kninebirddog wrote:A number 7 blade and I have both Osters and Andes Shavers
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My Osters are like 20 years old my Andes are newer the andes run cooler then my Osters ever did
Nice thing is they are interchangeable blades
I go against the grain
Nice thing is they are interchangeable blades
I go against the grain
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And after we clip them we rub em down with baby oil !, says this Former FFA/4-H chapter/Club president !Cajun Casey wrote:Totally missed this. I've served my time in swine, having grown up around a bunch of cowhick 4Hers and FFAers. Show hogs are clipped, by the way.wills1235 wrote:Casey, I keep looking at your comment about the pig. I think teaching a pig to point or hunt mushrooms can't be much different than teaching her to sing. And I know both have been accomplished. I've taught my lab to sing.... or quite possibly vise versa. I think you should get a pig.....
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kninebirddog wrote:that one gets me about as much as calling an American Brittany a spaniel
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I always the offer the expanation as to why they are not spaniels. I've only had one person say, "oh Brittany Setter, I guess I was wrong!" Lab people, ugh... JUST KIDDING!!!!
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Pretty easy to understand why when they were Brittany Spaniels till just a few years ago, still are in the rest of the world, and most official lists you see on our board or any place on the internet still lists them that way.kninebirddog wrote:Only if they were spayed or neutered do I ever notice any drastic change in coats and then yes they can look like they were put in the dryer on fluff
Oh PS Ezzy..I rather see and use the term shaved when closely cutting a dogs coat down as I always think of clipping as prepping for a show but better that then reading that a litter was Out of a male..that one gets me about as much as calling an American Brittany a spaniel
I just correct them and explain why and let it go.
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It's not how many breaths you have taken but how many times it has been taken away!
Has anyone noticed common sense isn't very common anymore.
Re: brushing your dog
Use a shed 'n blade.. It pulls the loose hair out and before you realize it there will literally be a pile of loose hair on the ground. Just make sure you use this thing outside or you'll probably clog a vacuum trying to clean up. Dogs get excited over this thing when they see it, I think it feels good to them.
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ezzy333 wrote:Pretty easy to understand why when they were Brittany Spaniels till just a few years ago, still are in the rest of the world, and most official lists you see on our board or any place on the internet still lists them that way.kninebirddog wrote:Only if they were spayed or neutered do I ever notice any drastic change in coats and then yes they can look like they were put in the dryer on fluff
Oh PS Ezzy..I rather see and use the term shaved when closely cutting a dogs coat down as I always think of clipping as prepping for a show but better that then reading that a litter was Out of a male..that one gets me about as much as calling an American Brittany a spaniel
I just correct them and explain why and let it go.
Ezzy
I think it has been more then a few years..coming on to a few decades ago
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Don't see why its a big deal, your average person wouldn't know about the Spaniel being dropped off the official namekninebirddog wrote:ezzy333 wrote:Pretty easy to understand why when they were Brittany Spaniels till just a few years ago, still are in the rest of the world, and most official lists you see on our board or any place on the internet still lists them that way.kninebirddog wrote:Only if they were spayed or neutered do I ever notice any drastic change in coats and then yes they can look like they were put in the dryer on fluff
Oh PS Ezzy..I rather see and use the term shaved when closely cutting a dogs coat down as I always think of clipping as prepping for a show but better that then reading that a litter was Out of a male..that one gets me about as much as calling an American Brittany a spaniel
I just correct them and explain why and let it go.
Ezzy
I think it has been more then a few years..coming on to a few decades ago