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Originally Posted by Vaiva
I am also interested, whan do your dogs shed the most?
Brukne lives inside and preferes sleeping in bed  , but still has big difference between winter and summer coat. The strange thing is, that her coat usually looks best around... March. And she sheds hardest around August. At the moment she looks worse than these homeless dogs on the adds of animal shelters  In August I was starting to think, whether I should keep vacum-cleaning the floor, or it is better to leave it as it is and wait for a natural felt carpet to form... |
This was exactly our experience with Tina and now with Lorka. She lives indoors, too. In January/February she was almost bald, had the thickest coat around April/May (with a nice collar) and is now finishing heavy shredding. I'm aware that by spending around 3 hrs per day in the cold weather she will never get as thick fur as dogs living outdoors.
But what matters more, in my opinion, is the the quality of the coat: she has hair of various length and quality, she never gets really wet in rain or snow (i.e. her undercoat is always dry and really dense in the 'winter edition'), I don't know how to call it technically, but the coat seems to clean itself. Unless she uses the "perfumes"
we don't need to wash her at all, occassional brushing is enough to keep the fur in good condition.