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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
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