Idle show grooming question
 Does anyone ever groom and fluff their dogs up to this level, and take them walking at a dog park, or a pedestrian-friendly part of downtown? I know I would. (But some people accuse me of being dog-vain)  |
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LOL  It takes a good 3+ hours to get that look - and that's starting with a brushed out dog......  How much spare time do have, David??  And remember, you need to brush them all out afterwards too....... |
| What I want to know is who decided that the sheepie show coat should look like that. And what's the reason and significance for the fluffed & teased coat? Because no sheepie outside of the show ring looks like that. |
CamVal1 wrote: What I want to know is who decided that the sheepie show coat should look like that. And what's the reason and significance for the fluffed & teased coat? Because no sheepie outside of the show ring looks like that. Actually this dog doesn't look like it has much teasing or product in it to me, looks like there's a bit of a pony tail (which is awesome, I wish we could show with one in but we can't so we use hairspray) Good coat with just basic trimming on the rear and feet doesn't need a ton of product and teasing. Some is used to accentuate the shape of the dog on a good dog, and unfortunately on a not so good dog a ton of teasing and product can be used to attempt to hide faults. A good judge will feel through that though. It does take a lot of work to keep them looking like that though, in general for a pet oes even a minimum of an hour to 2 hours a week, just basic brushing, not including the time for bathing, blow drying,re brushing and trimming etc that is involved to get ready for a show. |
| Absolutely stacey, no product or backcombing (teasing) is allowed in the coat over there in Europe if felt by a judge you are penalised. His coat is just trimmed lightly, feet, butt, a little bit of overall tipping etc as overdone is penalised too over there. His coat stands up on its own due to his massive wooly undercoat. Neck is stripped a little and the shawl brushed down flat. Head and butt just fluffed out. He looks like that at home too when he is not at a dog show. I like the hair clip for showing too, started that here as little madam likes to see, no law against it in the showring here so better for her in the ring and maybe might start a trend for oes here . |
Right, like Lisa and Stacy said, a crappy coat would never look anything like this outside of the ring but a nice, correct coat that is trimmed appropriately to keep a good shape would. Owen pretty much grows this way. Clyde's hair is ubersoft and grows to the ground.  |
lisaoes wrote: He looks like that at home too when he is not at a dog show. So one aspect of a good show prospect would be the quality/shape/growing of the coat? Sooo show doggies don't get summer hair cuts?  |
joanna21 wrote: So one aspect of a good show prospect would be the quality/shape/growing of the coat? Sooo show doggies don't get summer hair cuts? Yes & yes. When you breed you take into consideration the coat quality of both parents as well as the realtives behind the parents in the pedigree. Harsher, coarser (called "correct") coat is most desirable. With a good undercoat. Generally grows a bit slower & tends to break of easier that the softer type coats but it is one of the items you breed for to better the breed. No, show dogs don't get shaved in the Summer unless you aren't planning on showing them for about 1 year (except in the case of showing a dog in the veteran's class where a shorter cut is acceptable & permitted). You keep them brushed out so they are mat free & the air can filter thru their coats. They are also pretty smart about choosing to stay in the cooler places like in A/C or near fans or where there is a breeze  |
| We are aiming for that.. we go to shows, of course Tedi doesn't have that much coat yet but it grows all the time.. However I'm not so obsessed about dog shows that I would just walk my dog on places where he can't get dirty. We go everywhere and sometimes he is more brown than white but good brushing every day and washing and blow-drying once in 2-3 weeks keeps the coat in a good shape. And we don't use any products except shampoo because they are counted as doping in dog shows here. In Finland it's not very common to get a summercut but that's also because our summer is so short. Here it's like only 4 weeks over 25'C in the whole summer. |
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