Anybody else got a dog that where you strip
the coat (pulling out the hairs a few at a time)
rather than clipping? Does your dog turn into
a recluse when newly stripped?

Many rough-coated terriers are supposed to be
groomed in this way.

Angel the Airedale's coat needs stripping
about twice a year. Breeder did it for me
this time.

Angel looks like she's going around in her
underwear...lots smaller and a little shivery.
Sleeping curled in doughnut with nose under
tail. But she is quite demonstrative about
not wanting to wear her coat when we go
out - temps are about 35 deg Fahr here now.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.

She also didn't want to go out with the
dog walker today: demonstrated by heading for
the livingroom instead of out into the hall
as usual when he came to get her.

Appetite and elimination are stable, so I don't
think she's sick.

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Laura Arlov wrote:
Anybody else got a dog that where you strip
the coat (pulling out the hairs a few at a time)
rather than clipping? Does your dog turn into
a recluse when newly stripped?

Many rough-coated terriers are supposed to be
groomed in this way.

Angel the Airedale's coat needs stripping
about twice a year. Breeder did it for me
this time.

Angel looks like she's going around in her
underwear...lots smaller and a little shivery.
Sleeping curled in doughnut with nose under
tail. But she is quite demonstrative about
not wanting to wear her coat when we go
out - temps are about 35 deg Fahr here now.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.

She also didn't want to go out with the
dog walker today: demonstrated by heading for
the livingroom instead of out into the hall
as usual when he came to get her.

Appetite and elimination are stable, so I don't
think she's sick.

I never had a rough-coated dog, but I have waxed my legs (once - only once,
never again!). So I'm wondering if having all that hair plucked out made
her skin a bit sore?

FurPaw
--
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

To reply, unleash the dog.

Laura Arlov wrote:
Anybody else got a dog that where you strip
the coat (pulling out the hairs a few at a time)
rather than clipping? Does your dog turn into
a recluse when newly stripped?

Many rough-coated terriers are supposed to be
groomed in this way.

Angel the Airedale's coat needs stripping
about twice a year. Breeder did it for me
this time.

Angel looks like she's going around in her
underwear...lots smaller and a little shivery.
Sleeping curled in doughnut with nose under
tail. But she is quite demonstrative about
not wanting to wear her coat when we go
out - temps are about 35 deg Fahr here now.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.

She also didn't want to go out with the
dog walker today: demonstrated by heading for
the livingroom instead of out into the hall
as usual when he came to get her.

Appetite and elimination are stable, so I don't
think she's sick.

I never had a rough-coated dog, but I have waxed my legs (once - only once,
never again!). So I'm wondering if having all that hair plucked out made
her skin a bit sore?

FurPaw
--
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

To reply, unleash the dog.

Laura Arlov wrote:
Anybody else got a dog that where you strip
the coat (pulling out the hairs a few at a time)
rather than clipping? Does your dog turn into
a recluse when newly stripped?

Many rough-coated terriers are supposed to be
groomed in this way.

Angel the Airedale's coat needs stripping
about twice a year. Breeder did it for me
this time.

Angel looks like she's going around in her
underwear...lots smaller and a little shivery.
Sleeping curled in doughnut with nose under
tail. But she is quite demonstrative about
not wanting to wear her coat when we go
out - temps are about 35 deg Fahr here now.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.

She also didn't want to go out with the
dog walker today: demonstrated by heading for
the livingroom instead of out into the hall
as usual when he came to get her.

Appetite and elimination are stable, so I don't
think she's sick.

I never had a rough-coated dog, but I have waxed my legs (once - only once,
never again!). So I'm wondering if having all that hair plucked out made
her skin a bit sore?

FurPaw
--
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

To reply, unleash the dog.

Laura Arlov wrote:
Anybody else got a dog that where you strip
the coat (pulling out the hairs a few at a time)
rather than clipping? Does your dog turn into
a recluse when newly stripped?

Many rough-coated terriers are supposed to be
groomed in this way.

Angel the Airedale's coat needs stripping
about twice a year. Breeder did it for me
this time.

Angel looks like she's going around in her
underwear...lots smaller and a little shivery.
Sleeping curled in doughnut with nose under
tail. But she is quite demonstrative about
not wanting to wear her coat when we go
out - temps are about 35 deg Fahr here now.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.

She also didn't want to go out with the
dog walker today: demonstrated by heading for
the livingroom instead of out into the hall
as usual when he came to get her.

Appetite and elimination are stable, so I don't
think she's sick.

I never had a rough-coated dog, but I have waxed my legs (once - only once,
never again!). So I'm wondering if having all that hair plucked out made
her skin a bit sore?

FurPaw
--
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

To reply, unleash the dog.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.


Probably pretty sore.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.


Probably pretty sore.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.


Probably pretty sore.

And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.


Probably pretty sore.

"Tricia9999" wrote in message
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And she is avoiding much people contact,
not looking for her morning snuggler, choosing
to go and sack out in the master bedroom when we are
in the main room (lvr/ofc/kit) and vice versa.


Probably pretty sore.

Except that stripping the coat of a wire haired dog doesn't hurt the dog.
It's not tweezing or plucking. It's pulling out dead hair. Probably the
dog resents having to stand and allow the stripping. And it sounds like it
hasn't been done before - or at the very least very recently - so it was a
new, and probably not too pleasant experience for the dog. She'll get over
it and will probably be better about it the next time.

I know that when the breeder clips Spenser (which we have her do
periodically to make sure that we stay at least close to the proper lines)
she makes him behave better than we do. So she's not exactly his favorite
person - at least for a while. He doesn't seem to hold a grudge with us for
turning him over to her but it's possible that Angel does. Or that she's
translating her feelings to ALL humans.

Probably she IS cold. We could always judge when our last schnauzer was due
for a clipping. As his coat got longer and heavier, he'd start sleeping on
top of the covers. As soon as he was clipped, he was back underneath. When
we got Sassy, she had never been clipped, only stripped for show and that
hadn't been done very recently. So she was very shaggy. She got hot very
easily and would stop playing with Spenser to pant. Now that she has been
clipped and has so much less hair, she no longer stops to pant. And she's
taken to sleeping under the covers.

I wonder why they only do it twice a year? The wire-haired terrier people I
know do it on a more or less regular basis. Even on the dogs they're not
showing, they just do a section or so every week or so. Quite often while
they're watching TV or something. I would think that would be less
"traumatic" for the dog. Not that there should be any permanent emotional
damage from making Angel stand and allow the stripping/grooming all at once.

~~Judy