Question
Pepsi
Hi! I am a groomer also and have been grooming for about 7 years full time. I now own a 5 month old Black Standard Poodle. Her hair has only been Trimmed, not fully cut. I just ran into my grooming instructor the other day and she saw my dog and told me that I NEED to SHAVE her down soon or her adult coat will not grow in correctly. Now I have read MANY grooming books and MANY Poodle Books and have never read or heard of this before. I have had the dog since she was 8 weeks old and only trimmed her hair. I bathe her once a week and reshave her face, feet, tail and sanitary areas about every other week. I did just give her her first haircut last week, but she is still about 1 1/2 inches long in the shortest area of her body. (here is a picture) Is there any reason that I should SHAVE her? Her coat is in Great condition. Have you ever heard of this before? The only reason that I even question it is because this advice came from the woman that taught me how to groom so many years ago, but honetly I don't think she knows what she is talking about.
Answer
Riot
Hello Kim,
Your Pepsi looks great. As long as you keep up on the brushing and clipping of Pepsi, there is no reason to shave her.
What your Groomer friend was talking about is when some groomers will shave a young puppy down at an early age to help the coat when the dog gets old enough to get his/her adult hair in.
The theroy is that if you shave the young puppy down that this sharts the adult hair growing in, rather than it growing in when the dog is around 9 months of age. When the adult hair grows in at that time, the puppy hair is already very long and the adult hair grows into the puppy hair. This can cause terrible mats as the curly adult hair grows up and into the fine and fluffy puppy hair.
You don't have to shave a puppy down if you can really watch the hair and keep it combed out daily when your dog starts getting her adult hair in.
The first places to look for mats and indications of the adult hair are under her front legs, behind the ears and around her back legs. These places will start to mat first and are an indication that the adult hair has started coming in.
Be sure to comb her all the way through, because when these mats take hold, they can be severe if not caught early. If large mats do occure, then the only course for them is to shave the dog down.
Another way to help with the mats is to be sure that you condition the hair. Sally's Beauty supply store sells a product called Cure Care Conditioner. It works great to help condition the hair against mats.
We would wash the dog, apply the Cure Care and leave it on to help keep the hair from breaking, then wash it off the weekend of the dog show. After the show, the hair went back in the cure care until the next show.
If you have other questions for me, please feel free to ask.
Thanks for using AllExperts.com,
Kim
Below is a pic of my Blue dog Riot. He is a Blue Poodle that could have made a nice show dog, but I decided to just let him be a Poodle. He is 9 months in this pic.
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