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Erinc Teenager
Join date : 2011-11-12
| Subject: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:46 am | |
| For the last few days fur has been dropping off Luka like *insert appropriate comparison here* because i honestly can't think of one! There is fur EVERYWHERE!!!!!! Im with my parents at the moment and my mum is slightly losing her sanity I think LOL! There is fur on our clothes, on the floor, the furniture, stuck to the TV, stuck to me, my hair, inside my mouth - Luka isn't allowed upstairs but there is fur there too!! Normally he gets brushed daily BUT this morning I was on a mission - We sat outside in the sun and I started brushing, I was going to brush until no more fur would come out (i know, how silly i was) - well, around 45 minutes later I gave up - there was no difference since I started! It just kept coming out! Where does it come from? Why won't it stop coming? Will it ever stop?
ok all humour aside, serious question:
Is there a limit to how much I should brush him? can I do him any harm by brushing too much?
ps. I will at some point try to collect the fur from one session of brushing and post a picture! |
| | | Huskyluv Resident Nutritional Bookworm
Join date : 2009-06-23 Location : Huntsville, AL
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:34 am | |
| - Erinc wrote:
- Normally he gets brushed daily BUT this morning I was on a mission - We sat outside in the sun and I started brushing, I was going to brush until no more fur would come out (i know, how silly i was)
You made a funny! - Erinc wrote:
- Is there a limit to how much I should brush him? can I do him any harm by brushing too much?
There's no limit aside from what you AND your dog are willing to tolerate. Certain brushes are more harsh and can do damage, like the furminator types, which should be monitored and kept down. Also keep in mind that excessive brushing can irritate the skin and thus lead to a negative experience and unhappy/uncooperative dog which you want to avoid...you want brushing to be a positive experience, not a negative one. Some dogs don't like certain brushes for whatever reason also. And remember every dog is different, some don't care what you use or for how long, others get irritated after some time and would benefit from multiple shorter sessions a day versus one long one. You'll figure it out as you go along. _________________ |
| | | Erinc Teenager
Join date : 2011-11-12
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:13 am | |
| Cool, thanks! He seems to enjoy being brushed & if i'm too harsh on him he is quick to let me know |
| | | SabakaMom Senior
Join date : 2011-02-10 Location : Virginia
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:52 pm | |
| I read your post aloud to my family!! We enjoyed it! Sorry to laugh at your pain... Sabaka is just starting a coat blow as well. He seems to only lose certain areas at a time and, therefore, a full body shed takes awhile. He's still losing fur from the hips and thighs now. Brush on... |
| | | evelazquez Teenager
Join date : 2012-03-17 Location : Norridge, IL
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:27 pm | |
| I skipped brushing Coquito yesterday and when i brushed him today, there was a cloud of hair LOL |
| | | hypers987 Senior
Join date : 2011-08-25 Location : Santa Cruz, California
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:33 pm | |
| Kale just started his coat blow. There's hair in between the keys of my laptop... |
| | | blueeyedghost Maverick
Join date : 2011-07-01 Location : Denver, CO
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:58 pm | |
| I'm still waiting for this fabled coat blow... Ghost is 11 months now, and it's getting HOT here all of a sudden. I pulled like one cotton ball sized clump out of her the other day, but other than that it's sort of been constant shedding in small amounts since we got her last year. I'm sure when it finally happens with us though, it wil be epic. _________________ Shadow's Blog Canine Hydrocephalus Support on Facebook "Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey" Shadow - 03/01/2013 - 10/02/2014 |
| | | Erinc Teenager
Join date : 2011-11-12
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:40 pm | |
| Ahh, its so good to have people who understand you lol! - hypers987 wrote:
- Kale just started his coat blow. There's hair in between the keys of my laptop...
haha, i like this one! - SabakaMom wrote:
- I read your post aloud to my family!! We enjoyed it! Sorry to laugh at your pain...
Sabaka is just starting a coat blow as well. He seems to only lose certain areas at a time and, therefore, a full body shed takes awhile. He's still losing fur from the hips and thighs now.
Brush on... Luka is losing a lot from his thighs as well - its still loose hairs, i don't know if i'll be able to get clumps out of him this time round as he is only 5 months - I'm defiantly not looking forward to him blowing his full winter coat when next summer comes around edit: oh and I'm glad my failed efforts to contain husky fur are providing a good laugh for the famo! |
| | | ljelgin Senior
Join date : 2012-01-29 Location : Broken Arrow, OK
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:48 pm | |
| Wow your Huskies are slow at Blowing the coat..
Blaze started the 3rd week of January blowing on his back legs and rear end.. I told him to the groomer the first week of February and the got most of it then.
He is still blowing in now on his from shoulders and around the tail.
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| | | Erinc Teenager
Join date : 2011-11-12
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:54 pm | |
| - ljelgin wrote:
- Wow your Huskies are slow at Blowing the coat..
Blaze started the 3rd week of January blowing on his back legs and rear end.. I told him to the groomer the first week of February and the got most of it then.
He is still blowing in now on his from shoulders and around the tail.
lol, you must be glad its nearly over! i think Luka has started now because the weather has only just started to warm up a little, it is still unpredictable and up one week and down the next but it has warmed up in general! |
| | | Myndi Teenager
Join date : 2012-01-15 Location : West Virginia
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:23 am | |
| Ava's already finished blowing her coat, all except for a tiiiny bit on her cheeks and her tail. She looks so mangy when she's blowing her coat...
Also, whenever she blows her coat, I have to tighten up her collar and harness so they fit her. Anyone else have to do that? |
| | | cbhart Teenager
Join date : 2012-01-19 Location : Riverside, california
| Subject: Re: Luka's First Shed Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:13 pm | |
| im glad river has a shorter coat but when i first got him he seemed to be loosing more guard hairs then the down and it was every where to me it seems it should be the other way around but i dont think that was a coat blow i think it was malnutrition so i dont think i have actually witnessed a coat blow yet and im kinda worried about it going to southern california and staying with my mom....she may murder me cuz of all the hair LOL |
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