I wanted one more time to thank you for the grooming lesson you posted for me last October. Last weekend we have been to the show again and this time we have had some hairdo ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think, I have found a couple of my own tricks ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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If there's a lot of dust and dirt in the grays, but you don't want to wash, you can take a high powered dog dryer and just blow it all out before the show, too. It's amazing how much dust will blow out of there when you hit the dry coat with all that air! |
ButtersStotch wrote: If there's a lot of dust and dirt in the grays, but you don't want to wash, you can take a high powered dog dryer and just blow it all out before the show, too. It's amazing how much dust will blow out of there when you hit the dry coat with all that air! Yep, that's what I did last week on Chewie before our specialty. I washed his whites at the Paw after class, and using the tandem dryers I blasted him good! Fluffs them up really nice too ![]() |
Having a sheepie is one very complicated thing. Having a sheepie in full coat is a whole other very complicated thing. Almost 3 years in I feel I still know nothing ![]() ![]() |
Quote: If there's a lot of dust and dirt in the grays, but you don't want to wash, you can take a high powered dog dryer and just blow it all out before the show, too. It's amazing how much dust will blow out of there when you hit the dry coat with all that air! I've done that too! ![]() |
I will try to blow. I used to vacuum my Airdaile, but I am afraid that after vacuuming a sheeppie I would need to buy a new vacuum cleaner ![]() ![]() I wonder, what would help to restore the coat after shampooing to make it less brittle? I have read about Plush Puppy spray based on oil, but I wish I know about something more available. |
A good dry clean method is corn starch or potato flour, sprinkled on the coat and brushed out, removes the dust and if the coat is too oily takes that away to give it volume again and fluffs it up again. I wash all over twice a year, before a show just the whites. The day before after washing the head coat, spray some hairspray into it and leave it in there and then brush it out completely, gives volume and poof to the head coat after washing it but leaving no product there for the judge to feel. You can repeat the process that morning of the show but make sure it is completely brushed out and it then helps poof the head coat out after it softens due to eing washed. ![]() ![]() Now necks, you do need to strip, I dont cut the shawl I use a rake and work from underneath lifting the hair in layers and running the rake through right up to under the ears. You do need to thin the shawl out to give her shape between the head and butt otherwise it gets too thick and you cant see if they have neck or not and they end of looking like a big blob of hair. This is my young girl debuting in the showring this saturday, her first show trim and shape, yes there is a tail there also but from this picture you can see what sort of shape you are aiming for. Neck is stripped but still a long shawl, head coat trimmed and butt trimmed and feet rounded off. Yes we show in long coat here in Australia but you do have to do some limited shaping of them otherwise they look like big shaggy blobs. Glad your trying and you will get better with the more you do, I always say if you make a mistake dont worry it will grow back, you have to get in their and try or you never will know how too ![]() ![]() Piccys needed next time she is done up for a show. ![]() |
She looks stunning! Of course all of your dogs do ![]() ![]() I have serious coat envy. Cuatro is now 9 months and is putting his paw out there this weekend for his first show. |
Best wishes to both of the debutantes this weekend!!! Have fun and I know both Babs and Cuatro (and human Mim) will have plenty to say about your debuts!!![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Lisa, Your girl looks beautiful !!! I love them shown long and shaggy, I think that is the way they are intended to be ![]() ![]() ![]() |
loried wrote: Zoey got that issue off the counter, ripped it to shreds then peed on it, I thought it was fitting ![]() ![]() |
Bravo, Lisa ![]() ![]() ![]() After I have seen here what amaizing job OES owners do, I think that some professional groomers should put dark glasses and quietly disappear into a shady corner ![]() I, too, started from looking at the pictures, but I have never managed to keep the shape before I used your advice. This time I thinned back side of the hind legs. Together with this furry ball around the rump it gave the square look for the body which was very important since at the previous shows he was described as having too long body. Nothing like that this time! What can do a right hairdo! ![]() I tried hairsprays before, good one don't give sticky feel, but in my case it still have never helped to keep the shape. I tried styling foam as well and only one good thing was that on the wet coat it helped brushing very well, like a conditioner. That is very true, Lisa, the more one tries the better it becomes. Now I will be more bold with scissors ![]() Thank you for your time, Lisa, which you put in here sharing your experience. Hope your debutant has done well today. |
loried wrote: Zoey got that issue off the counter, ripped it to shreds then peed on it, I thought it was fitting ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Babette and Mim did well, two show virgins very proud of both the girls. Babette was so relaxed at her first show, being inside and with 1000 plus all breeds there and cramped in space she took that all in her stride. Mim was great too, syd was entered but just for babs first time left him at home to play mother hen to both the girls. Babs got res.bitch CC and mim did a great job for her first show handle as well ![]() ![]() ![]() No piccys yesterday was busy showing Mim how to get babs done up for the showring and when they went in guiding them both as to when they needed to re-enter the ring again and for me re-fluffing and guiding both of them. I was so clucky and proud of both the show virgins, as they go along and get more experienced together they should be an awesome team. ![]() I feel like a proud mother hen after yesterday with both the girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() WELL DONE MIM AND BABETTE. ![]() Thanks Mim you did great for the first time ever showing a dog. ![]() How did Cuatro go waiting for news on the debut there, we are a dayad of you lot. ![]() ![]() |
Sad about the lack of pictures, but a BIG CONGRATS to BABS and MIM!!!! |
Way to go Mim and Beautiful Babs! Lisa, thanks for asking about Cuatro. He got a 4 point major...Winners dog, Puppy Best of Breed, Best of Winners, and Best of Opposite Sex. I couldn't handle him today since I had back surgery 4 weeks ago so my debut as a handler will be later ![]() So, I would say all debutantes did well ![]() ![]() |
Thanks Lisa!! Babs did much better than me. I was a nervous nelly and mucked up her stack. But we both had fun and are back next Sunday to have another go. PS despite Lisa's excellent attentions with the lint brush I'm still getting lovely long grey hairs off my black suit. ![]() |
Well done Cuatro very exciting for your babies first show. ![]() ![]() Mim loved the black suit but now you know why I've gone to the grey colours in the ring ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have NO sympathy for the dry cleaner. I wear polar fleece trackie pants to agility as its outdoors at night. Ever tried getting a mix of sheepie, dalmo and siamese cat hair off polar fleece, not to mention I have long hair too. |
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