Three Reasons You Shouldn’t Shave Your Pet  Thursday, July 11,
2013 - 12:00pm Golden retriever wearing red collar
Add new comment     I hope that if you shave her in winter you
put a nice warm coat on her to go for her walk. I knew an idiot
who forever shaved her dog right down and then made it go out
with her in sub-zero temps. I'd like to see HER go out in those
temps with no coat!!   Seriously? Your dog sweats? How are you
leaving hair to cover the skin if you are shaving? If she has
hair that's one thing. If she has fur, or a double coat she
needs her hair long so the weight of it makes the hair fall out
enabling the follicle to produce a new guard hair. If the old
hair stubble remains in the follicle it cannot produce a new
hair or may produce a deformed hair. Most of the double coated
dogs never recover from a shave down. They look ridiculous
because the coat comes back patchy of only the undercoat comes
back. You are not doing your dog a favor by shaving it has a
double coat.   Dogs do not s