08/01/2024
Does your dog have a long coat? 🐶
Here is a few tips on how matts form and how to keep your dogs coat healthy & Matt free!
🐾 Matting is especially common in long coated dogs during seasonal shedding if the excessive hairs are not removed or the dog is not brushed regularly with the correct combs.
🐾 Regular and frequent grooming is absolutely necessary to keep your dogs coat and skin healthy. We recommend getting your dog groomed every 6-8 weeks.
🐾 If your struggling to keep on top of your dogs coat book in for bath & brush sessions inbetween your grooming appointments, or ask a member of our team for advise.
🐾 Sometimes the top coat looks fine but the undercoat is where the matting starts, once the matting starts the hair around the matting will get dragged into the matt causing it to get bigger and bigger, water will make the matts get tighter. The brush should glide through the dogs coat along with the comb, ensuring your brushing out the undercoat each time you brush your dog.
Other things that can also cause matting if your dog isn’t getting brushed regularly..
🌦️Weather - seasonal shedding - dead hair that doesn’t get brushed out gets tangled with the live hair, getting your dogs coat wet and not brushed, causes tightly formed clumps of hair.
🐾Harnesses - Friction - each time you take off your dog’s collar or harness the dog should be brushed, friction off the harness can cause the fur to get matted.
🪳Fleas - Allergies - if your dog has fleas or some allergies when the dog is scratching can cause matted areas to form if not regularly brushed and treated.
Here are some photos of matted undercoat & the brushes that are advised to use on long coated dogs, a sicker brush & comb 🪮 🐕
