Dogs with short hair/shedding
  Okay, so they are not really monsters, but my goodnes can they shed. I have recently "inherited" a chocolate lab and a _______ I have no clue from my Mom, due to her illness. Of course they have short hair and they shed like there is no tomorrow. I have always had long haired dogs, before sheepies it was aussies, that I really never had this problem with. I brush them 2 or 3 times a week, and give them regular baths, but my word where does the hair keep coming from?  I will try any suggestions, this is driving me crazy. Had to put slipcovers on the couches, so I can move them over to sit, to keep from looking like a hair ball. You know the drill. Any suggestions? And I forgot to mention, I am so tired of sweeping and vacuuming continually!  |
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| We have had bassets and they can shed as much as any short haired dog. I started giving Tripper fish oil and it cut down a great deal. Didn't stop it but it sure helped. They have the kind of fur that seems to weave into the fabric which make it that much harder to get out |
| No help, but I laugh when I tell people sheepdog hair is really not a problem to house keeping. They think I'm fibbing. |
SheepieBoss wrote: No help, but I laugh when I tell people sheepdog hair is really not a problem to house keeping. They think I'm fibbing. I have had 4 sheepies in my house and I SWEAR, I didn't do the amount of sweeping, vacuuming and dusting that I have to now.  |
SheepieBoss wrote: No help, but I laugh when I tell people sheepdog hair is really not a problem to house keeping. They think I'm fibbing. When people ask about Izzie and shedding I always say, "I shed more than she does."  |
| hahahaha... Betsy, good luck. I don't think there's much you can do My in-laws shave their ...short haired dog. Shaving my short-haired cat is the only way the hair doesn't drive me crazy. Some people swear by that Shed-X stuff to reduce it, but I am not sure someone who notices stuff like that will notice. |
| I have a Border Collie-mix and Schipperke-mix. Mine go through a heavy shed maybe twice a year. I use an Oster rake to remove the loose hair and some of the undercoat. http://www.petedge.com/product/Oster-Pe ... /45156.uts Bathing and regular brushing also help but there's still dust bunnies at times. |
I know your pain! I have 2 labs, a cream color and a chocolate. I also have dark wood floors so the white lab hair is EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! The chocolates just doesnt show up as bad I guess. Give me sheepies and their long coats anyday!! I tried the fish oil caps, the no shedding powder, and brushing daily, NOTHING helps. We had to teach Star ( the cream/white one) to stay off the couch and we warn people to NOT wear black to our house. Sorry but I havent found a cure for it. We call her Pigpen (from Charlie Brown) but instead of a dust cloud following her she has a hair cloud. I can vacumm 5 times a day and it just keeps coming.  |
| My grandparents always used to swear by a tablespoon of vegetable oil and an egg on their dogs food once a week. Many breeders I know who have short haired breeds do fish oil capsules and an egg once or twice a week too. Makes sense, natural oils, omega acids and protein... This time of year though most animals are shedding summer coats to get ready for winter. I get covered when I groom the horses right now lol |
| Ha, I have FIVE of those buggers - 2 bassets, a rat terrier, a lab and a coonhound. Yep, all shed like the dickens (OK, even a white cat too)....  Supplements (fatty) help, as do bathing/brushing. I bathe them all monthly - the lab and coonhound were done today! My SIL uses a furminator on his lab and gets gobs of hair, I have several basset friends who use them also. |
I get so much satisfaction out of raking the fur off my brother's huskies... of course it's in his house and not mine though  |
| I've had Siberian Husky's. I know HAIR. I ate hair. I had hair everywhere. The one thing that I've found helped is taking them to the groomer for a bath and blowout. I'm not sure if the blowout is really like it sounds but it did work. I could not get one piece of hair off the dog when he came home. |
| We use a furminator on the boxers. It doesn't eliminate but decreases the amounts of free falling hair everywhere. |
| I have a dalmatian sheesh hair like you wouldn't believe. His breeder told me "dalmatians moult badly twice a year ......... for 6 months each time!" And she wasn't kidding. I haven't been consistent enough with anything to comment, although I leather couches as I couldn't stand the hair that weaved into the fabric and was impossible to get out. The dog car is beyond saving and we can't let visitors in it, try white and black hair on the one dog. A friend used to take her short haired dog to a hydrobath, apparently it had spa jets or something and she swore it helped a lot. I never tried, don't know of any around here and Rastus is such a sook he'd likely die of fright anyway. |
| Ha, this is why it drives me crazy the millions of time I have people ask me about Mady: "she must shed like crazy, right?" My usual answer is "No, they don't she, she keeps all her hair, that's why she has so much of it". I would think it's effected by the health, grooming, and diet of the dog. My little sister has a gorgeous black lab, his coat is always shiny and amazing, he must shed, but it's not really noticeable. But I've had a rangy looking yellow lab at the dog park just brush by me quickly, and you'd think I got hit by a fur storm my legs were just covered. I'll ask my sister what she does. |
| Thank you for all your suggestions. Looks like I need to invest in a furminator and maybe build a chicken house. I will give those things a try. If anyone else has any ideas throw them my way. Isn't amazing what we will go through for our family and their dogs? |
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