May have asked this before but my brin does not seem to work well

[papbouv]

Some one said Patches has a spay coat yes she was fixed before her first heat did not think it would make a difference in coat.? Patches has a wide strip of nice shinny flat coat down her back every where else is fluff,fluff on her head,fluff on her chest,fluff on her sides & hips.Then in the back on her panties the nice flat shinny coat plus her tail is flat & shinny. ? Patches will be 4 years old in January is she just destine to look like a skunk all of her life ? Have been thinking of hand stripping in the spring but for a dog that is not use to having their hair pulled out think it would be uncomfortable. Some one said you are not suppose to clipper them would change the hair??? If it could be flat & shinny all over she would look allot better.Plus the fluffy hair seems to pick every leaf around then she may not pick up so many leaves which really get weaved in the fluff. Any ideas or I'm just stuck with what she has now?Papbouv

[Spanish Teckels]

First off - she´s gorgeous with her fluff so wouldn´t get hung up on it.

There´s no such thing as "spay coat"; it´s a complete fallacy.

The coat comes with good lineage and breeding and can be spoilt - or improved - with diet and grooming.  From what you post, Patches has a great diet and I know you said you were grooming her correctly, so it would look like her fluff comes from unsound breeding.  I´d just accept her coat as it is, continue to keep as well brushed as you do now, enjoy her and her individual look!

Please do not shave or strip her - either by hand or by machine or stripping comb - neither are appropriate and will only encourage weak re-growth.  An undercoat comb to take out any fluffy extra undercoat is the only tool which could reasonably help reduce the fluffies a little.

Give that gorgeous fluffy little girl of yours a big hug from her admirers over her in Europe.  You´re a great Mum for caring so much.

[papbouv]

Thanks

[Kathleen]

Also, don't forget that those fluffies are keeping her warm for the winter-I use a stripping knife to comb through Winston and Reilly's fluffies in the spring when they're dead and come out easily (you don't handstrip a long like you do a wire).  It's just undercoat that you're seeing now and it'll always be fluffier in the winter than summer.   You should see Reilly-my dad calls her a woolly mammoth   

I do believe in spay coats though-I'm fully convinced that Winston's coat changed dramatically when he was neutered.  It's a totally different texture than it was before.  Reilly's, however, is exactly the same as before she was spayed-she just has massive woolly undercoat that comes out in the fall.