Jack

 

    This is Jack, my number 2 Fur Baby Love!  Jack is still in his long flowing hair length.  I am really wanting to cut some of the hair for the summer.  Jack was made for grooming! He is so patient with all my combing and brushing.  Believe it or not, he is not combed out everyday.

     Both of my boys have finished the "Blowing Coat" stage.  This stage is a stage of headaches, lots of gray hair, coming up with words you have never heard of coming out of your mouth!  Blowing Coat is when the adult hair is coming in and the baby hair is falling out, and this stage goes on for months! It gets worse before it gets better. It seems like the Blowing Coat comes in stages in the fur, I called them mats from hell!  Huge mats, like mats that are so close to the skin, big mats, mats growing larger before your very eyes.  They look like mats that have bubble gum stuck in the hair, but the mats are not sticky.

     Anyway, I am glad that this stage is over with my boys.  If I had to do the "Blowing Coat" stage over again, I would keep my boys in a short puppy cut for the first two years.  You will make your life so much easier, less stressful,  have a better relationship with your pup, and saving yourself hours of trying to break through those mats; the stress is not worth it. Do yourself and your pup a favor and and get that puppy cut. Hair grows!