Last week, 11 degrees, she was in & out of creek, running in snow, & has been shedding like crazy.
Sign of early spring?
Or, I let her in the house at nite, with heat turned way down for her comfort; maybe the in & out is reason for heavy shedding?
Tx
I'm in Washington State and my Rottie (she's a long-haired rottie) is shedding like mad, too. She's inside except for going out to play, but our weather has gone from freezing to 50 degrees and back several times. I figure this is what's causing it.
Now that I think about it, we had a "heat wave" into the lower 30's for a day, or two; I think that is when it began ...
but continues with the teen temps!
Bathing is often used to stimulate the undercoat to loosen it. That's a big part of the grooming adds that claim "no more shedding". A good bath and blow dry!
Possible your dog being "in & out of creek" brought some of this on.
Thanks Bob, I wondered that also; although the creek isn't deep, & she was wet to chest/under belly, then running thru deep snow, turned to small snow balls hanging from her!!
As she was leaving tufts of fur in the house, followed her outside exercise with a "raking", & left enough fur daily for the birds nests = only, wrong time of year for them!
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I always thought that it was the change in the daylight hours that starts to trigger the coat blowing, not the temps...at leat it is with the horses. I know that we are on the up-swing with more daylight hours now.
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