Wednesday, June 29, 2011

How Often Should I Brush My German Shepherds Hair?



When you brush your German Shepherds hair you need to start at the head and go all the way down to the tail. You can use a wide tooth brush or you could use a Furminator to remove all of the loose hair underneath the top coat. This way you don't have to do any back combing. If you do use a wide tooth comb then you do have to back comb to remove all of the dead hair stuck underneath. You will want to get under his or her chin as well as around the top of the head. Be gentle when doing this, you don't want to hurt your dog.

This should be done about once a week, you don't want to do it every single day as that can cause them to get bald patches. All German Shepherd puppies should get used to this right away and it should be made a pleasurable experience for them since it will happen so often through their life. When brushing your German Shepherd you should always check for fleas and anything else that shouldn't be in the fur. Your dogs fur will go through changes twice a year, we all know it as shedding but it's actually called moulting. This is when your dog sheds all of the inner coat which is under the outer coat. It needs to be brushed out so the new fur can come in.

So basically brushing your German Shepherd once a week is in order. If you let him go too long with out brushing then the hair will begin to mat and it will be painful for them to be brushed. We don't want that and neither do they.

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