Brush for short hair?

Laurelin · Oct 17, 2014

What kind of brush should I use for Hank? He's shedding like crazy and I have no idea what type of brush would help. Never had a short haired dog before.

Elrohwen · Oct 17, 2014

Zoom Groom? I've heard good things with short haired dogs.

SizzleDog · Oct 17, 2014

Yep - Zoom Groom or a rubber curry brush.

Greenmagick · Oct 17, 2014

agree with the above for sure

BostonBanker · Oct 17, 2014

Steal a child's sized rubber curry from one of your horse-addicted family members. Or, I guess, go spend $1.00 on one. They are fabulous, and both of my dogs love being groomed with them.

amberdyan · Oct 17, 2014

ditto on the rubber. I tried furminator type brushes marketed for short haired dogs (borrowed from a friend) and Hugo HATED them. I think his coat is too short and it irritated his skin. He loves the rubber curry brushes- we use "four paws" brand and I think it was literally $2.

Dagwall · Oct 17, 2014

I also recommend the zoom groom.

*blackrose · Oct 17, 2014

See, I hated the zoom groom. Much preferred the metal shedding rakes (like a metal curry comb).

Greenmagick · Oct 17, 2014

*blackrose said:

For a short haired dog? I could use those on dogs like labs, shepherds, and other thicker coated short haired dogs, but for me they would do pretty much nothing on a smooth coat like a Dane, weim, boxer, etc

*blackrose · Oct 17, 2014

Greenmagick said:

Yup, even for short haired. Maybe not like Dachshund smooth, but I've used it on coats like...a Dalmation, or "single" coated Lab with good success.

Laurelin · Oct 17, 2014

He's not lab thick short hair but also not nearly as smooth as a dobe or dane or weim. I don't THINK he has a double coat. Not sure if that helps.

*blackrose · Oct 17, 2014

I still say shedding blade.

(ETA: I see when i mentioned it the first time around I had a brain fart and said shedding RAKE. No. Shedding BLADE. I do love double pronged rakes, but those are for thick coated dogs. I'll take a Shedding BLADE over a zoom groom any day.)

Greenmagick · Oct 17, 2014

*blackrose said:

I just personally never had luck at all with those on smooth coats but everyone has different preferences for sure. Back when I was a groom tech I did a ton of shed-x so we used a myriad of tools, and definitely everyone did things just a bit differently

*blackrose · Oct 17, 2014

Greenmagick said:

Haha, definitely. When I was a bather the only time I used a zoom groom/rubber curry type deal was when washing short haired dogs - but even then, I found that scrubbing well with my fingers and then giving a good towel/blow dry afterwards got more fur out than just the rubber curry alone.

Maybe I'm just inept at using them. That is quite possible.

Dagwall · Oct 17, 2014

Well Jubel isn't a big fan of brushing period, they zoom groom is tolerable with enough treats thrown in; anything with a rough/sharp/pointy edge is not going to happen.

MicksMom · Oct 18, 2014

Another vote for a Zoom Groom or a rubber curry comb. If you want, you can follow it up with a metal comb.

BostonBanker · Oct 18, 2014

I tried a shedding blade on Meg once, and she was completely appalled. I don't think Gusto has enough hair that it would work for him anyway, but I'm not sure he'd be any more pleased by the feel.

I don't curry the dogs with the curry the way I would a horse; just short, fast, deep swipes in the direction of the hair. Both dogs lean into it happily, and it gets that tiny bit of downy undercoat that Meg has out nicely.

Laurelin · Oct 22, 2014

SO MUCH SHEDDING GUYS.

I just laugh when people are commenting about how it must be nice not to deal with all the hair like the paps and shelties have. Yes but they don't shed but a 10th or so what Hank does. And Hank's hairs stick in everything.

No burrs and no feet trimming though.

BostonBullMama · Oct 22, 2014

I rarely brush Toby, he doesn't shed much - but when I do, I use a soft bristle brush. It seems to do the trick for us.

shadowfacedanes · Oct 25, 2014

Another vote for the Zoom Groom here. I've also had some success with some of my thicker coated Danes (my harles and whites had more coat than the others) by using a squirt bottle to mist the coat and then doing a wipe down with a chamois cloth. It pulls a good amount of loose, dead fur out..and then I'd follow up with the Zoom Groom.

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