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Cocker Specific Discussion => Grooming => Topic started by: Rolo12 on March 05, 2013, 08:08:33 PM
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Rolo is one at the end of the month and has not yet been groomed.
He is turning into a right scruff ball so its definitely time! However, he has quite a strange type of fur. He is not sleek and shiny like a lot of other working cockers. He has hair sprouting out all over the place, arms, legs, in between toes and on his back it all just sticks up!
I try and brush him as often as i can and he malts like crazy but he still looks like a scruffy monster.
Anyway my point is, what type of grooming will he need? I don't want to get him shaved in case it makes it grow back worse. I have heard of plucking but not sure who effective that is. Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
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I can't help you. Just wanted to say our working cocker is almost two and has never been cut. Don't think her coat ever grows but she is always moulting
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this is common with a lot of liver working cockers ;)
You can strip his back and sides out with a metal comb with a rubber band wrapped around it or use a coat king (I wouldn't us a furminator, too rough). I think out feathers with thinning scissors and trim his feet.
Jarv's coat is very similar and he's entire so I can't imagine what it would have been like if he were neutered!
It has got longer and woollier the older he got - last year I did clip his back and sides over the summer and thinned out his feathering and he looked much much better ;)
As for the feet - I hate yeti feet and always trim them. You will be amazed at how much easier trimmed feet are to clean and dry ;)
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This is my friends worker before grooming and after
As she is quite woolly we tend to use Coat King and fine comb on her back down her & back legs.
Her head I hand strip lightly as her mom likes her shaggy top not and then I trim her feet & featherings thinning if needed.
She is done a couple of times a year sometimes 3 depending on how much work with the coat king is done by mom at home as Maddie is spade so her back coat does tend to grow and she quite typical tends to get lighter fluffy hair down her legs
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