do oes' like to be groomed? Does it really take one full day
Anyway, how long does it take to keep a full grown, non trimmed oes matt free and clean? and do the dogs actually enjoy this or dread it? Thanks, Rebecca |
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I don't think mine loves it most of the time... for pete's sake, who likes to have their hair tugged on for 1+ hrs 
...but I also don't think she fits in the fights it all the time category. Maybe another category can be added to the poll. My dog tolerates it, but rather not be brushed ever again... |
| My guys love the grooming. All I have to do is say who wants a brushing and they both head for the table. I brush them out twice a week. In a puppy cut, it only takes about 15 minutes per dog. in a full coat it takes 1½ - 2 hrs. Maggie has a very heavy undercoat, so with her it's a 2 hr. job each time I brush her if she is in full coat. They go to the groomer's once a month for bath, clean ears and express glands, etc. |
My girl (who is a retired show dog) seems to really thrive on the attention. My boy, who is still young, is impatient with it, but doesn't "fight" 
Its never taken me THAT long for one dog (maybe 3 hours, tops), but I suppose how often you groom would be a big factor....when our dogs fur is long (only winters) we brush them every day, as just a normal part of our routine...watching tv? grab a brush!
Show grooming may be a whole different story...Ill let a more experienced person describe that. |
Chewie is 16 months old now, and still a slow boy with his coat transition. Just a late bloomer I guess. He still looks mostly black. If he's in a breeze you can see the gray coming in. 
We do show him, so he has a longer coat. His brush throughs really vary. I can do a quick job if he has been thoroughly brushed out in the last 2 days in about 30 minutes. If it is the other end of the spectrum, it takes about 5-6 hrs. This is a total body shampoo, drying with a professional stand dryer, total brush out. Longer if we do a trim, ear plucking and nails. Most of the time, it is somewhere in the middle. Every week he gets a complete line grooming to the skin. In between that, the trouble areas of the moment get worked on. He also gets spot cleans and partial baths, depending if we are just going to class, or if he has a therapy dog visit. He absolutely loves being groomed, so that makes it easier. If I am just brushing, I set the grooming table up in the living room and we watch TV and brush. And brush. I usually have to wake him up to take a potty break and switch sides. |
| Brushing weekly, it takes me roughly 2-3 hours per dog each week. For bath, blow out, triming/stripping it takes me about 4-5. |
| When I do a full brushout, I try to do it shifts throughout the day so it's less stress on everyone. I break the body up in parts and do it section by section, with breaks in between. That can take quite a bit of time but never a full day. If you keep up with daily grooming, you should never have a reason to take too long in a full grooming.
If you're looking for a true full day experience and then some, try bathing and drying a Komondor! |
| I have a 15 month old male OES in full coat (about 12-13 inches at this point, in the longer spots). It takes me around 3.5 hours to do a full line-groom, including plucking his ears and trimming between his foot pads. Longer if we've been playing in forests a lot and he's gotten matted or has debris build-up. Significantly longer if I skip a week (we do the grooming thing once a week, with very little touch-up in between).
I like to do the whole dog in one shot. Up on the table, do one side, poke to wake him up, flip, do the other side. I find this is easiest on him (he naps, I don't miss spots), and best for me (I don't get distracted and forget to do that last bit, or forget which parts I've done already). Barkley goes to the groomer twice a year for his semi-annual bath and prettying up. Other than that, I do all his grooming (and he gets sent to the groomer within 36 hours of a full brush out, so she's mostly washing and prettying). As for whether or not he likes it, I would have like to answer both. He doesn't fight, but when it's grooming time he generally will go and sit with someone else and try to ignore me. However, once he's up on the table, he's well behaved and goes to sleep. He wasn't like that at 8 weeks old, and it's only the last 6 months or so that he's been sleeping - up until then, he wanted to watch each brush stroke, as if he was making sure that I was doing it right. So, to answer your questions, yes he seems to tolerate grooming well, and no it does not take a full day. |
| Mine bump and push each other to see who gets on the grooming table first. Baths well that is a different story. EWWWW not that wet stuff on my coat.
Brie I brush one day and bath the whites the next day as she is in full show coat and can take forever denpending on what she has been up too through the week. 
Kelsey long coat but all stripped out, takes me about 2 hours to throughly get through her now.
Start getting them use to grooming as soon as you get them, make it a regular thing without going past a week without a brush then not so much work to de-knott them then and not such an ordeal for them too trying to get major matts out of their coats and they enjoy it for the rest of their lives. |
| I have one that enjoys being brushed out and one that hated it.
But I could only vote once. My female loves the attention she gets when she's being brushed. My male hates the brush and bites at it. I just got sick of fighting him so he is kept short. He also starts chewing his hair if he is any longer than 3 inches. |
| Mine two both run to the table as soon as I set it up and try to beat the other one to see who gets on it first. And for bath time, all I have to say is "Get in tub" and they'll run jump in. |
| Barney loves the IDEA of being brushed and like the first 10 minutes or so. Then he gets fidgety. But he's not so bad. Usually I just push him back down (he lies on the floor when I brush him) and he sighs and lets me continue. My problem is that he seems to like to lie on one side and it is HARD to get him to flip over, so I often have a half brushed sheepie (and it's always the same half ) |
| Bingley is now 15 months old in 2 days. He is in full coat and in full coat transition. He is a "late bloomer" much like Chewie and I can tell we'll be in that 'transition' stage for months. I line groom him every three days, so just over two times a week. It takes me about two hours to do this, depending on how much his neck has matted. I take a bit extra when it is 'trimming time' and when he is ready for a bath we do it in two days: line groom one day and bath and re-line groom with dryer the next!!
If you are going to show, this is a fairly good estimate of time. If you aren't going to show and you would like to keep the coat long you can strip out the undercoat. This will leave you with a long-haired sheepie that is much less work. I agree with what others have said about starting early. Bingley loves to be groomed because I put him on the grooming table every day for the first 6 months of his life, and he always got tasty treats when he was up there. As he has matured he has stopped wiggling as much and generally falls asleep at least once during the process. I just turn on the TV, find a good channel or movie, and go to town. In fact, that it the plan tonight!!! |
| Obe is 14 months old and also a late bloomer. He is really turning grey but it seems to be taking forever. Does he like to be groomed? Not all the time but he will tolerate it. I break up a treat and give him a piece when ever he gets restless and then he will lay back down. Last night we did a full line brush and it took almost two hours. I brush him once a week full on and every night I brush some as well (one night head, next legs and so on). He never really gets to matted up and I think the mats that I have been brushing out are due to the coat change. He goes to the groomer once a month and gets the full treatment. It takes her 5 or 6 hours to do everything but that includes breaks. All I can say is get used to brushing an start the dog of young to get him used to it. That is if you want to keep him in full coat. I also brush once a month to remove the undercoat. |
| Chopin is very "tolerant" He gets brushed twice a day for about 15 minutes each time. Once in the morning and once in the evening and bathed once a week with gentle shampoo. I try to get him to a gromer once a month (which has fallen to once every two months) for general triming and such but I think 15 each time is all he would go for without being leashed so I just stick with the frequency to avoid any mats that may otherwise appear. |
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