Dog thread!🐾

[ThePhoebeFive]

Oh here we go. My sister is terrible about sending me pics, so I just stole some of her FB page. This is the last little one needing a home.

 

[fluffycrow]

I just saw someone shaving the coat of their LGD

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Was it matted?

 

[fluffycrow]

Was it matted?

Probably, to an extent. But it's no reason to shave a double-coated dog

 

[SpotTheCat]

Probably, to an extent. But it's no reason to shave a double-coated dog

If it is very matted then it is a good reason! Trying to remove very solid mats specially if there are a lot of them by not cutting the hair would take ages, be all most impossible and wouldn’t be very nice for the dog. Double coats do grow back (maybe not as great as before) so its much kinder for the dog just to trim it

 

[fluffycrow]

If it is very matted then it is a good reason! Trying to remove very solid mats specially if there are a lot of them by not cutting the hair would take ages, be all most impossible and wouldn’t be very nice for the dog. Double coats do grow back (maybe not as great as before) so its much kinder for the dog just to trim it

That's the thing, the dog was not overly matted. A few mates here and there are to be expected, especially for an outside dog, but definitely not to the point they needed shaving off. They surely weren't big enough to be visible on screen. Besides, I wouldn't exactly call shaving a working outside dogs coat, whose whole purpose is to help them regulate their body temperature, in the middle of a heat wave kind. The owner also did it to their short coated dog, which would've definitely not been matted

 

[SpotTheCat]

That's the thing, the dog was not overly matted. A few mates here and there are to be expected, especially for an outside dog, but definitely not to the point they needed shaving off. They surely weren't big enough to be visible on screen. Besides, I wouldn't exactly call shaving a working outside dogs coat, whose whole purpose is to help them regulate their body temperature, in the middle of a heat wave kind. The owner also did it to their short coated dog, which would've definitely not been matted

I agree with you, I wouldn’t shave one unless there coat comes off like a sheep fleece! Your previous post sounded like you didn’t know how matted it was and wouldn’t shave it no matter how matted

 

[fluffycrow]

I agree with you, I wouldn’t shave one unless there coat comes off like a sheep fleece! Your previous post sounded like you didn’t know how matted it was and wouldn’t shave it no matter how matted

I don't know exactly how matted the coat was, I definitely know it wasn't matted enough to be visible on screen (the coat was just scraggly looking, as it was the puppy coat), which tells me it wasn't matted enough to be shaved off in the first place. But yeah, I wouldn't shave a double coated dog unless it was truly necessary, which is not why the owner did it. They did it to "help them cool off in the heat, and help the coat grow back stronger"

 

[SpotTheCat]

. They did it to "help them cool off in the heat, and help the coat grow back stronger"

 

[SpotTheCat]

Whats everyones least favourite breed?

mine are bulldogs and the ones the bybs are trying to turn into frogs