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Types of coat: The diverse canine races and the varieties of a same race even present/display different coats. In the dog, as far as length, several modalities of layer exist: short, average and long hair. According to the texture, we can distinguish three characteristic types: smooth, hard wave and. In addition to the different classes from hair, many races present/display a dense, tight and protective subhair against the cold, the water, the ice and
the inclemencies of the time in general.
Cepillado: Fundamental practice for all the canine races, without distinction of the type of hair that will only influence in the class of equipment to use, as well as in the frequency and intensity of the operation.
The dogs usually have two fundamental times of dumb and regeneration of the hair throughout the year, that agree generally with the stations of spring and autumn. Nevertheless, throughout all the year one takes place fall and regeneration of the layer, of more or less acute form.
In the units of short and smooth hair, cepillado daily with a glove of horsehair or the soft brush it assures retirement the died hair, the oxigenación and the subepidérmica activation that will favor a skin heals and free of undesirable parasites. The cepillado one will smoothly begin in the throat, continuing with the chest and the legs, to finish with the superior part of the neck, the back and grupa. It always must rub in the direction of the hair, happening two or three times through each part, without tightening not to irritate the skin or producing wounded. After this operation manopla of plush in a specific bactericidal lotion agrees to dampen one that completes ?toilette? daily of our dog.
The animals of long hair must please be cepillados in the direction of the hair with combs of longer prongs, but of blunt ends, happening at least twice through all the corporal surface before indicated. The dogs of hard hair or waved long hair must smoothly ?be rebuked? with a special tool that assures the cleaning the dead hair and allows the ventilation of the skin.
Insecticide and bactericidal lotions are precious aids for the care of the mantle of the dog, having daily to be applied or at least one of every two days.
Trimming and Stripping: Many dogs of long or hard hair require a complex cut of the hair by purely aesthetic exigencies that is called ?trimming?. ?Stripping? is in fact a therapeutic rebuke, accompanied or not by cut, necessary for many animalitos of hard hair, that assures the elimination the generous hair and the possible external particles that could have been romped in the mantle. These operations usually are conducted in special establishments ?hairdressing salons of dogs?, under veterinary control, although with, a little practice and the suitable implementos we can make them we ourself without leaving house.
Cepillado and hygiene of head and tail: the head in the dogs of smooth hair will be enough with being rubbed smoothly with a plush cloth without clearing the eyes nor the snout. In cases of pelliargo he will be advisable to use a comb of long prongs before the massage with the glove or mentioned cloth. The units of long and hard hair will be combed previously, very sweetly, but with certain energy and later with the fingers of our hand we will apply the lotion with firm, but nonviolent massage, taking care of of not touching the nasal nor ocular mucous.
The tail, in races that do not demand their amputation, will be cepillada or combing to ?against inferior hair? on the other hand finishing with a cepillado massage or ?to favor? that assures the complete hygiene this appendix.
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