i have a 7 months old puppy called poppy who;s started to develop a blown coat.
however, she has developed it all over . and i must say it looks awful.
will all the brown on her coat go like this, and what is the best way to groom it?
i have read on other forum you should not use electric clippers, but thinning shears are better. is this so?
we desperately need your help as our dog looks like shes been drag though a hedge backwards.
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Hi there,

I'm by no means an expert - I'm very lucky that Daisy has a lovely coat with absolutely no input from me!!!

But I think it would help those in the know if you could post some photos of Poppy's coat, as many as possible, so they can see what the problem is.

Am sure someone will be along soon with better help.

Is Poppy nuetered, I think it is just the puppy coat comming off, I really doublt it would be a blown coat, use a coat king on the coat

Hi

I am not an grooming expert but my mom is a groomer. She does not clip my cockers back or springers she uses a thinning comb which removes old top coat. Your picture looks likes my cocker when he needs grooming it's like fluffy baby coat.

I use a Mikki Stripping Knife Coarse (it looks like a comb) I got it from pets at home.

Jenny

I agree with Mary. Probably just the puppy coat coming out.

Helen

that's what Scooby was like when he came to live with us..

I use a coat king which has improved it no end and bought it back to the shiny chestnut colour he's supposed to be..

please can you tell me what a coat king is and where do we buy one from please. We have started to use a mounting comb whitch is helping a little. Also can any tell us how long the springers moult for we have it all over our clothers our carpet etc .

many thanks

vanessa
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Freya might have some if not technopgroom in carluke a cheaper version, whoch is just as good, yoiu sould go for a 12 blade

to everyone that helped us with our puppy coat it was her puppy coat that was the problem. we have been using the moulting coat four the couple of weeks and now the coat has come lovely. its hard noing what to do sometimes because this is our frist spinger . we had a jack russell cross for 17 years we lost her last year. many thanks again.
vanessa

aw... that's good news, Rufus and Stellar are a similar age and Rufus particularly looks as if he has had a perm with highlight on top of his head - he has all these paler puppy curls sat on top of his bonce bless him...