My dog is a chow australian shepherd mix, should you cut the hair short in the summer?
I adopted a Chow Australian shepherd mix dog from the animal shelter. She is 2 years old. Should you cut their fur for the summer. She was upset at the vets first visit, so she doesn't like strangers that much. I was wondering,Should I get her professionally cut, or should I do it myself? Thanks for any help!
No.
DEFINITELY no.
Groomers like money, but the only genuine reasons for clipping a dog are:
(a) When a vet needs to clear an area to operate or to clean up a wound.
(b) When a long coat is so matted that you can't release the knots with a bath + a comb out.
All else is stupid fashion.
The original pompom cut still seen on many Poodles was practical – in those days those dogs were tossed overboard to retrieve the rope tied to the fisherman's lost net. You might have noted that dogs with wet coats shake when they stop galloping around. Clipping such dogs reduced the amount of water they could spray – the bobbles were left in hope of keeping those joints warm & dry and thus delaying arthritis.
But how many Standard Poodles do YOU know that go out on fishing boats? (Can you imagine a Toy Poodle or a Miniature Poodle towing a rope back to a fishing boat?)
You, and others who think that clipping cools a dog, do not understand that dogs do NOT perspire through their skin (humans do, cats & dogs don't). Their perspiration is entirely through their lungs, their tongue, and their mucus passage, with a tiny amount through their feet. So it is important that dogs ALWAYS have access to drinking water, in order to keep their passages moist to promote cooling. When over-heated they, like us, enjoy a paddle or a swim in cool water, which cools them via the naturally exposed skin of feet and armpits and belly+groin. Dogs die very quickly from heat-stroke when left in a vehicle on a summer's day.
Removing the coat removes the INSULATION a dog REQUIRES to protect it from the heat of the sun's rays and to protect it from the UV radiation that produces both sun-burn and skin cancer, so is a VERY BAD IDEA!!!!!!
"raining4…" has a LOT to learn about dogs AND about the English language.
Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
"In GSDs" as of 1967
No the coat protects the dog from the sun's harmful rays and acts as an AC during the summer
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It would be cooler for her to get cut, wether or not you do it yourself is up to you, because this dog came from a shelter, it may be better to have a proffesional do it.
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if the dog has too much hair & it's too hot in the summer then go for it. I have a dog with heavy hair – he's not a lover of strangers either so I cut his hair myself that way I am garanteed that he is not mistreated or drugged in order to get to the end result.
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These are not dogs that are cut. However brushing out loose under coat is good. If the dog is outside and may get hot – fill up a kiddie pool for him.
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no that could damage his coat and skin
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as a dog groomer i would suggest for the comfort for your pet take his coat down.. it would be like you or i sitting around in our coats epically if the dog is out of its original region like a Samoyed is a cold weather dog and yes his coat is for his protection but when you bring them into your regions its to hot. i even suggest for indoor thick coated pets that shead to take them down since you have a furnace running its again like them sitting with there winte coat on and it also helps with the sheeding
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Not a good idea, it will actually make your dog hotter. There fur acts as an insulator in the cold AND the heat. Keeping them warm in winter and cooler in the summer because they are sheilded from the sun. You will get a sun spray if you cut down your dog. Many grooming salons offer a "shedless" procedure. What this is is force-blow drying the coat to "blow out" all the dead fur from your dogs "winter coat". It works awesome.
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I am a dog groomer.
We have an australian shepard also. We cut her hair because it gets really hot here. This is the first year we have done it. She is about four years old. I think she is much cooler now. But I don't think it was too extremely hot for her in the past years. I think it may depend on the amount of time she spends outside and etc. Our dogs hair grew back in fairly quickly, so don't be worried that it won't grow back in for the winter. I Hope That Helps.
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No.
DEFINITELY no.
Groomers like money, but the only genuine reasons for clipping a dog are:
(a) When a vet needs to clear an area to operate or to clean up a wound.
(b) When a long coat is so matted that you can't release the knots with a bath + a comb out.
All else is stupid fashion.
The original pompom cut still seen on many Poodles was practical – in those days those dogs were tossed overboard to retrieve the rope tied to the fisherman's lost net. You might have noted that dogs with wet coats shake when they stop galloping around. Clipping such dogs reduced the amount of water they could spray – the bobbles were left in hope of keeping those joints warm & dry and thus delaying arthritis.
But how many Standard Poodles do YOU know that go out on fishing boats? (Can you imagine a Toy Poodle or a Miniature Poodle towing a rope back to a fishing boat?)
You, and others who think that clipping cools a dog, do not understand that dogs do NOT perspire through their skin (humans do, cats & dogs don't). Their perspiration is entirely through their lungs, their tongue, and their mucus passage, with a tiny amount through their feet. So it is important that dogs ALWAYS have access to drinking water, in order to keep their passages moist to promote cooling. When over-heated they, like us, enjoy a paddle or a swim in cool water, which cools them via the naturally exposed skin of feet and armpits and belly+groin. Dogs die very quickly from heat-stroke when left in a vehicle on a summer's day.
Removing the coat removes the INSULATION a dog REQUIRES to protect it from the heat of the sun's rays and to protect it from the UV radiation that produces both sun-burn and skin cancer, so is a VERY BAD IDEA!!!!!!
"raining4…" has a LOT to learn about dogs AND about the English language.
Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
"In GSDs" as of 1967
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