Have your dogs shed yet?

[stacwase]

Jake hasn't shed yet this spring, and he didn't shed in the fall either! Talk about fluffy, heavy coat - everybody keeps telling me I have a "very chubby dog", but under that fur he's actually quite fit! Have your dogs shed yet this year?

[ParNone]

Yeh I just noticed the other day that my Collie is shedding.
I patted him on the side the other day and a cloud of hair
poofed off of him. This is my first experience with a dog that
noticably sheds, because my 2 Cairns have wirey hair. My Collie's
a Smooth, so I can only imagine how much worse it is, if it's a
Rough.

Par...

[stacwase]

When Jake sheds, I fill a paper grocery bag 3/4 full of fur every time I brush him! I'm still only getting a handful.

[ParNone]

I see you're in Michigan, so maybe it's not warm enough yet up
there. I've a friend from MI and she was telling it was snowing
up in the UP today. Which is mind boggling to me, since it's
been consistently in the 80s for a few weeks now here in Texas.

Par...

[stacwase]

Yeah - I use Jake as my weatherman. If he sheds, I know spring is on the way! It's April 21 and he hasn't shed yet - doesn't sound like good news!!

[NWS_Haven]

German Shepherds blow coat 12 months a year so I hardly notice when spring shedding starts. :rolleyes: I did start giving them fish oil and flax seed oil early this spring which helped quite a bit with the shedding. Not quite as many hairballs laying around anyway!

[lovemyshiba]

Well, Abbey, my beagle, has been shedding all winter--her hair is all over the place!!!
But Kito is the one who really sheds a lot--he blew his coat in the fall, but another Shiba owner told us that the spring is when they really explode!!! He has started a little, but nothing compared to the fall--I guess it's not springtime yet here:(

[KYS]

Oh brother!!!
Sheba has been blowing coat for a month.
I got most of her undercoat out, but she is
still shedding oodles of fur.
Rocky is just shedding little tufts here and their.
(He is not a big shedder and Pepper hardly sheds.)

[lizbud]

Smokey has been shedding for about 3 weeks. The more I
brushed the more he shed.It was very soft baby fuzz & it went
everywhere. Tried brushing him outside & when the wind would
blow the hair, Smokey chased & caught it in his mouth.:rolleyes:
Finally took him in for a "professional" wash & brush.He looks
so much better & he smells so good.:) He's still shedding a little
but at least I can keep it under control better now.:)

[kai]

Kai hasn't been shedding yet...do pups shed? maybe it's cuz it's not warm enough here...vancouver's very cold...

[anna_66]

Originally posted by lizbud
Smokey has been shedding for about 3 weeks. The more I
brushed the more he shed.It was very soft baby fuzz & it went
everywhere.

Same goes for Huney, she's leaving fur balls all over the place! And that fine baby fuzz, it's the pits!! I think I could just brush her forever:rolleyes:
Thankfully Roxey isn't blowing her coat yet (don't understand why though)! I guess one at a time is enough!

[stacwase]

Maybe they've decided to take turns! They wouldn't want to overwhelm you with fur!

I had to poke around under Jake's fur just to make sure he was still in there!

Sometimes when he sheds I put some of the fur out in the yard. The birds use it when they're building their nests - isn't that neat!

[anna_66]

Originally posted by stacwase
Sometimes when he sheds I put some of the fur out in the yard. The birds use it when they're building their nests - isn't that neat!
We still find Keisha's (our RB chow) fur in some of the bird houses around here, and she's been gone for 2 1/2 yrs now! I think it's awesome that they can use it. I try to always brush the dogs outside (not so messy in the house that way either!).

[stacwase]

That is so neat! I was really shocked the first time I found out the birds used it - I thought they'd be able to smell the dog and it would scare them, but then somebody told me birds can't smell.

[wolf_Q]

I've never had a shedding dog before...so Nebo is my first.

I'm *guessing* that he's blowing his coat right now. I normally take him to work about once a month...and just blow his coat out with the high pressure dryer, as well as just brush him like crazy...about every other month I give him a good bath too. This all helps get rid of all that fur!

I noticed the last time I took him (about 2 weeks ago) I got about twice the amount of fur that I usually get out...and I'm getting tons when I brush him at home...so I'm thinking he's blowing his coat right now.

I know when it's time to take him to work...I'll see tiny clumps forming on his legs, and they drive me nuts!

[stacwase]

Wolf-Q, are you a dog groomer? It would be so great if I knew how to groom Jake and even greater if I had a place like that to do it! I clipped his toenails for the first time the other day. He's 7 years old, but until now I've been too scared to do it myself. I didn't cut the quick, thank goodness.

Sounds like Nebo is blowing his coat. Wish Jake would!

[lizbud]

Wolf_Q,

I just hate those little" clumps "of fur too. Before Moki's bath
and brush, I used to spy some clumps on him as he would walk
by me in the house, so I'd end up following him around picking
the hair off of him, bit by bit.:rolleyes: The groomer told me that
Smokey HATED the blow (force) dryer & actually tried to bite her
when she held him still, so she kennel dried him.He's o.k. with
my hair dryer at home, so the force dryer must have been pretty loud for him to be so scared of it.She made a note on his chart,
not to use this dryer on him in the future.

[lovemyshiba]

My parent's dog, Max, is a horrible shedder
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p6d51df9f4a87f7cb87f4c4391dac8ee7/fc4dfc18.jpg
In the summer, he lays in front of the fan,and it looks like it is snowing in the living room:eek: Clumps everywhere!!!!
He hasn't started yet either.

[Logan]

I haven't read the replies, but in answer to your question, I'm asking a question....."do they ever stop shedding?". Not my girls!! All three of them shed hair year round! LOL!!! I'm brushing constantly and that hair keeps falling out! I keep wondering why they aren't bald by now!!! :)

[stacwase]

Nothing like hairballs in every corner of the house!!! Somehow they always manage to float up and get in your mouth - that's just the worst.

[sammi]

Last time we had the dogs groomed about a month ago - I also had them give Buddy (the husky mix) a shedding treatment. It was great and he has hardly shed much since! It was $25 extra for that, but well worth it. This was done at Petco.:)

[jackiesdaisy1935]

We are lucky Schnauzers do not shed, not even a hair, honestly. The only time hair comes off of them is when they are combed or brushed, of course they have to be groomed every six weeks.
But Daisy is black and she sleeps with us and you will not find one hair in our bed or anywhere in the house, the same with Perry.
Jackie

[wolf_Q]

Originally posted by sammi
Last time we had the dogs groomed about a month ago - I also had them give Buddy (the husky mix) a shedding treatment. It was great and he has hardly shed much since! It was $25 extra for that, but well worth it. This was done at Petco.:)

Glad to hear that! :D I'm a Bath and Brusher at Petco...and I've done the "Shed-less treatment" many times. It's a LOT of work if the dog is shedding badly! I'll brush until my arm falls off, but I'm always still paranoid that the owners won't notice the difference.

Next time you take them there, try "The Works"...I did that on Nebo today, it works great! :D


The groomer told me that
Smokey HATED the blow (force) dryer & actually tried to bite her
when she held him still, so she kennel dried him.He's o.k. with
my hair dryer at home, so the force dryer must have been pretty loud for him to be so scared of it.She made a note on his chart,
not to use this dryer on him in the future.

Yeah, a lot of dogs get scared of it...which is unfortunate, as it works AMAZING to get out that shedding undercoat. I've had several dogs try to bite me, so I just kennel dry them too...I can imagine that it's pretty scarey to them. It is quite loud, and the air is pretty forceful.


Wolf-Q, are you a dog groomer? It would be so great if I knew how to groom Jake and even greater if I had a place like that to do it! I clipped his toenails for the first time the other day. He's 7 years old, but until now I've been too scared to do it myself. I didn't cut the quick, thank goodness.

Does he have black nails? It's harder with those...I know, it's kind of scarey...some dogs have much longer quicks then others, and if they are black, you can't tell where they are. Try just clipping a little bit at a time with one nail, and if you end up accidentally reaching the quick, it will give you an idea where the quick on the other nails are. Also if you have some QuickStop powder on hand, it will stop the bleeding instantly!

I gave Nebo a super good bath/brush-out today! WOW, you wouldn't believe the fur I got outta that boy! It's so funny, his tail is like so skinny feeling now!!

[stacwase]

Jake's finally starting to shed! That makes me very happy, because now I know spring is finally coming.

Yes - his nails are black. But the tips were white - so I just cut off the white parts. I still think he needs more off, though because he clicks when he walks on the hardwood floors - isn't that how you tell? I'll try again today. I need to get some of that powder that stops bleeding but I haven't bought any yet.

I'm going to trim the hair on his feet today too - I hope I don't end up making him look stupid, but I want to do it myself instead of taking him to the groomer.

Wish me luck!

[wolf_Q]

Good luck! :D

That may be as far as you can clip them right now....even if it's clicking on the floor. When the nails grown out, the quicks grow too, so he may have longer quicks then normal. When you clip the nails, the quick receeds a bit, so you could try trimming just a tiny bit off every few days until you get it where you want.

I used to be afraid to clip nails too...my dad clipped Reggie's nails but he only did it every 3-4 months so they'd get really long, and the quicks were super long. Since I've been clipping them every 2 weeks or so, they are at the perfect length.

For trimming the feet...do you have a slicker brush? (preferably a pretty small one) What I do is use a small slicker brush, and brush the tops of the feet backwards...it brings up all the hair between the toes. Then just take scissors and trim it off, then also just trim around his pads a bit. We also trim up the fur on the backs of the front legs legs (from the paw to that little extra pad..not sure what it's called) and kind of from the back of the heel to the foot on the back legs. Hope that made sense! :)

[Cookiebaker]

Malone is starting to shed. I brush him a couple of times a week, and leave masses of hair to be swept up. It seems that he is shedding mostly down his back near the rump. No matter how many times we brush him, there's still more :eek:

[Tina]

Ginger just started to shed about couple weeks ago she is still shedding! But that is a good thing. I don't Oscar is any yet. And Ruff he usually don't start till summer.

[Sudilar]

Alas, I am owned by two German "Shedders". :rolleyes:

[tatsxxx11]

I used to think Labs shed a lot...UNTIL I got my Cody, a Husky/Shep! YIKES!!!! Talk about fur clumps!! :eek: Come Feb., they just start popping out from everywhere on her body; she looks like she has the mumps! Karen (KYS) and I were just talking about this the other day. We both spend evenings in front of the TV "picking" out the 1" or more wide clumpers!!:D Most of it's been plucked out now, but, on top of all that is a whole other coat of fine, fuzzy fur constantly dropping and blowing around, usually in my mouth!! When I brush her outside, it blows all around in huge clouds; the landscapers always know when it's shedding season!! I think the birds like it though for nest building!! I'm constantly walking behind her pulling out the clumps and she HATES that!! "Enough, Mom!!":D

[lovemyshiba]

The Inu shedding has officialy begun!!!!!
I took him outside for a full brush down today, boy was the fur flying!!!!!! Then we came inside for a trim, he stood perfectly still while I trimmed the stragglers, I just need to get between his toes. Great tip Amy--that's what I'm going to try!!!!!!

[MaxandSpike'sMom]

I have dog hair in my house 365 days a year. I could make several sweaters with the dog hair that Max sheds. Usually, he gets worse in the spring but so far it hasn't gotten any worse just the same. Spike is shedding also. I noticed it more this morning when my son wore a black shirt to school today and he had "spike hair" all over him. Oh, well, he didn't care. I always tell everyone....Black is not a good color to wear in my house you are almost certain to go home with some of my dogs hair.

[monkeycrazy18]

Yes, my dog is shedding like crazy!! There is always fur all over the house, but of course, she does have a lot of hair, and always sheds a little bit year round.;)

[Pam]

Being poodles, my dogs don't shed. I am lucky - not one hair to clean up. Of course they have to be clipped every 6 weeks and their hair grows very fast. Before you know it they look like woolly lambs. :) I do have cats who shed horribly so I can relate to hair everywhere, just not coming off dogs. I brush and brush but it never ends. :rolleyes:

[Cheshirekatt]

I'm lucky....pittys don't shed. :D After Wilma got spayed it took six months for her fur to grow completely back!