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So this will be my first post about Kota. Photos below are a reference of his coat type. I didn't know if I should post this in grooming or behavior...move it if needed.
Kota is a 5 year old Chow Chow mix that is my boyfriend's dog. He has a weird coat, as you can see from this picture. A thick under coat with a long wispy top coat. He does get matted and tangles in his fur, so he needs to be brushed. Typically when he lived with my BF's dad they just let his coat grow and do whatever it wanted, he also swam in their pool everyday. (So he was always greasy and matted). His dad would brush Kota about once a month by forcing him to lay down and then brushing him. My boyfriend brushing him always consisted of trying to brush him and soon as Kota bit at the brush or cried my BF would stop and leave him matted.
I enter the picture and say that its not okay and he has to be washed and brushed on a regular basis. I am trying to do it in a way that is least painful and stressful to Kota but honestly I can not figure out how to get the job done. Normally I start with a ball tip brush (click here), at first started with a touching with brush, treat then moved up to two brush strokes gets a treat. Right now he may complain a bit if he has tangles but overall will let me brush his entire body with this brush.
Yet this doesn't do the job of working on his undercoat, just gets the knots out of the top coat. Using anything like a coat king, pin brush or anything starts him screaming like a banshee. He won't take treats, and won't stop screaming until I let go of his collar either. I've tried CC but it just isn't working. I've gone down to basic steps of CC sniffing the brush, touching him with the brush, he will tolerate a brush or two but then always starts up. I've been working with him for almost three months now with no improvement.
He does get hot spots and sometimes infections, which I believe came from his matted/dead coat.
Groomers don't want to work with him. The ones that do I know will just muzzle him, pin him down and let him scream the entire time because there is no way a stranger can reasonably work with him. He is fearful of strangers, and doesn't like people he doesn't know touching him (It took him 2-3 months of knowing me before he would let me pet him). He doesn't try to bite me or go after me, unlike the groomers. He just screams and tries to bite the brush. Maybe I just leave the dead under coat on him? He isn't very matted but looks...scraggily.
Is this one of those things that I just ignore the dead coat, ignore his screaming and continue brushing or do something different with training?
Kota is a 5 year old Chow Chow mix that is my boyfriend's dog. He has a weird coat, as you can see from this picture. A thick under coat with a long wispy top coat. He does get matted and tangles in his fur, so he needs to be brushed. Typically when he lived with my BF's dad they just let his coat grow and do whatever it wanted, he also swam in their pool everyday. (So he was always greasy and matted). His dad would brush Kota about once a month by forcing him to lay down and then brushing him. My boyfriend brushing him always consisted of trying to brush him and soon as Kota bit at the brush or cried my BF would stop and leave him matted.
I enter the picture and say that its not okay and he has to be washed and brushed on a regular basis. I am trying to do it in a way that is least painful and stressful to Kota but honestly I can not figure out how to get the job done. Normally I start with a ball tip brush (click here), at first started with a touching with brush, treat then moved up to two brush strokes gets a treat. Right now he may complain a bit if he has tangles but overall will let me brush his entire body with this brush.
Yet this doesn't do the job of working on his undercoat, just gets the knots out of the top coat. Using anything like a coat king, pin brush or anything starts him screaming like a banshee. He won't take treats, and won't stop screaming until I let go of his collar either. I've tried CC but it just isn't working. I've gone down to basic steps of CC sniffing the brush, touching him with the brush, he will tolerate a brush or two but then always starts up. I've been working with him for almost three months now with no improvement.
He does get hot spots and sometimes infections, which I believe came from his matted/dead coat.
Groomers don't want to work with him. The ones that do I know will just muzzle him, pin him down and let him scream the entire time because there is no way a stranger can reasonably work with him. He is fearful of strangers, and doesn't like people he doesn't know touching him (It took him 2-3 months of knowing me before he would let me pet him). He doesn't try to bite me or go after me, unlike the groomers. He just screams and tries to bite the brush. Maybe I just leave the dead under coat on him? He isn't very matted but looks...scraggily.
Is this one of those things that I just ignore the dead coat, ignore his screaming and continue brushing or do something different with training?
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