Honeslty, I think Eskimo's look better without the cut. They're natural fur pattern is much more beautiful. Cutting them makes them look blunt and round.
I have a part American Eskimo and Chow. I live on the Hopi reservation and it's hot out here and there is so much dirt and ticks. Better for keeping cool and identifying little pests since I use natural ways to keep ticks and fleas off. I'm the only been out here a year but I just find that keeping my dog groomed keeps her happy and cool.
@@patriciacorella-brackin872 No you are wrong. You shouldn’t do that. You’re taking away the natural sun protection and you are going to make the dog hotter. If you groomed your dog regularly it wouldn’t have ticks and you should be giving it flea and tick treatments in any case
NO FURMINATOR on a Spitz double-coated dog! Use an undercoat rake to remove any loose undercoat. Furminator are good products, but not suitable for double coated dogs. We wash our American Akita with a lanolin based shampoo, then rinse him and apply conditioner for both his coat AND skin. Then we towel dry him, use a high velocity blower, use the undercoat rake, use a comb with rotating pins to avoid tangles, then finish with a slicker brush. You can use a hair clipper on his pawpads, but you shouldn't cut any fur unless there's another reason.
American Eskimos should have a big fluffy mane, like a lion, and long fluffy fur on the honches, they are distingushing features of this breed. This cut makes this dog look like a mut. You can tidy up the back legs without cutting much off. You can trim the belly, front legs, and clean out the paw pads without making them look like another breed.
Lauryn Juhl No, I noticed it also. The first dog didn’t have tear staining which is something I struggle with all the time with my Eskie which gets professionally groom Bi-weekly.
Totally! I was just going to comment. It's a completely different dog. The first "Bo" had no tear stains and was beautiful. Maybe he was acting up, haha, and they wanted to continue the video!
I have had 3 American Eskimo dogs. I have never shaved them. My first had to stay at a kennel for 6 wks. I asked the lady to groom her. I meant bath, dry, brush. OMG. She told me that she knew how to groom an Eskie. She lied. I did not recognize my dog when I picked her up. She even cut her tail off down to the tendon. I couldn't believe the mess, and my dog was depressed until her fur grew back. Never again! And, since when do you bath an Eskie more than maybe twice a year, unless they're show dogs, or get into something really stinky, like the only dead fish on the beach? It removes all the oils from their coats. I did not like this video at all because the info is all wrong. Poor babies.
This is an interesting option for a cut, but if anyone is curious, this is not how eskies would be groomed for show. Generally you neaten the extremities but you do not curb the general coat.
For the love of God, anyone who is watching this to get tips on how to care for double coat dogs, run away and don’t listen to her. Using Furminator is a BIG no!!!! It will cut fur through the coat, you need to brush instead and rake the undercoat. Also ONLY trim around the face and the butt not do when she did to this poor dog.
Hi Jenn! I just purchased a Wahl electric grooming tool for my eskie. You would recommend just washing, drying (i got a professional dryer!) and a really good/long brushing session + some trimming as opposed to using a higher guard on a trimmer?
Ideas_YT they act like coat strippers, cutting some of the undercoat. We had one for our ragdolls cats, and it wrecked their fur when it grew back- much more matting. Samoyeds should never be groomed with Furminators, although annoyingly the medium size one has a picture of a Samoyed on it! We breed Sams and no respectable Sam breeder I know would use these. A metal comb and a slicker brush are much better.
Great video! I have two eskimos and the groomers at petsmart usual cut them super low. So I've been taking there summer grooming into my own hands.. wish me luck! Lol
Nice , but I will never trim my Spitz with furminator first of all ...not good for long hair.... has it pulls too much ...she trimmed him less than others videos i have seen , but I will never trim my dog like this, i brush her and try to get has much undercoat regularly and trim only the feet and very little off the end of the hair ..that is it! She has a beautiful dress and I want to keep her that way and I do believe that fur protect from the heat and should not be removed and keep them in the shade in summers. These dog don't like heat shaved or not shaved!
I just wonder if these groomers just repeat what they have been taught. My Pomeranian pants day and night until I give her a lion cut. Then she is comfortable and can sleep all night without distress. Same with my Japanese Spitz. Their coats come back just perfect in the winter.
I agree with the furminater and never use it on my little chow I don't even like it on my German Shepherd. My primary comment is that if you want someone to learn from you you need to slow down and chat about what you're doing and why.
Angela Meza There is a tool called a dematting tool that you can try and use. Get some spray on conditioner and go through the coat gently with a slicker brush, dematting tool, and a metal comb. It’s going to take time especially if very matted but it can get a lot of it out for now.
Once you get her untangled daily brushing is key. I started my pup (Samoyed) from the first day I brought her home. Short sessions at first, but she was much smaller. Now she comes to me when Jeopardy starts cause she knows it's brushing time.
I made the commitment to learn how to groom my eskies when I first adopted them... it’s been a learning curve 😂 thought I would watch this as I gave my male his spring blowout. I’m very wary on the hand-scissoring so they don’t look as nearly as polished as this fellow. Great video!
I am so glad I watched this! I had been wrongfully thinking I should go get my pup shaves for this hot summer. Luna(eski) and I both Thank you so much for this informational video!
You chopped the dogs bum hair off -_- it should be more of a bubble .... I never comment on youtube, but wow that was not how you style a german spitz coat -_-
I agree, it was way over scissored and looked awful. The natural fine tapered shape of the hair was lost so not only was the appearance wrong but the feel of the coat would have been spoiled as well. It looked like a plush toy ☹️
Do NOT listen to her. All an Eskie needs is an UNDERCOAT RAKE and a SLICKER BRUSH. You can trim the paws and pads with shears or clippers. Do NOT use a Furminator unless you want to ruin your Eskie’s coat.
Depends if they're born locally or not. Mine is Samoyed and the breeder said his fur ( still have 2 coats) is shorter than those in cold weather and he suggest shaving/cutting short around the genitals / belly is better for my dog in the summer . My place is avarage 28-35 degree and he's doing fine with early morning walk and staying inside for the rest of the day.
I have not even start watching and she calls this dog an American Eskimos.......! My Godness this is a Japenese Spitz, I have one exactly like her.........gonna keep watching to see the rest of the video......lol
to be TOTALLY honest i did do and/or probably will SOMEWHAT like grooming along with the large and medium sized american eskimo dogs and i did do and/or probably will really LOVE scottish terriers chihuahuas and the small american eskimo dogs
Can you explain WHY it would make them hotter to have a full fur coat on in 90 degree weather? To me that makes no sense at all. I get that the fur protects them from sunburns, but there’s no way a dog isn’t going to cool down after a double winter coats worth of fur has been removed. The fur is absorbing the heat and keeping it close to their skin. It’s also preventing cooling breezes from reaching their skin. And if more fur is better, why do dogs blow their coats during summertime? The same thing is said about down comforters.. “keeps you cool in the summer blah blah.. actually no, i throw my down comforter off me in the summer because ANYTHING against my skin is hot af. Nothing but the breeze of a fan cools me down and feels way better.
So I have huskies and I lived in Arizona. The outlayers are insulated. AThe undercoat gets thicker when it's cold to protect them then when they blow their coats that thick layer to keep them warm comes off. Also if you shave a double coated dog for the summer you make them more prone for skin cancer and sunburn and overheating. also shaving it off doesn't magically cool them off. Use a dryer to get he undercoat out. Also when you shave them off, the undercoat is what grows back first, it will get matted and the outer fur will not be that same soft texture.
To answer your question: You aren't too wrong when it comes to a cool breeze BUT the thick coat also works as an insulator against heat and "hot breezes"... Like a cooling box that you take to the beach to keep your beverages cool! More airflow on the skin doesn't help the dog too much anyway because dogs don't sweat on their skin. Humans on the other hand obviously benefit from the airflow on the skin but dogs don't especially when the air is already hot! Dogs regulate their temperature with their tongue and paw pads and they are exposed to free airflow even when the coat is long ;)
No! Please stop, don’t cut double coated dog’s fur. It ruins their coats and makes it grow back less soft. This is why show dogs do not get groomed like this.
That's just it too, they are show dogs. I have an old english sheepdog and I love this dog but omg, taking care of his thick doubke coat is an act of congress. Keeping him shorter seems to work best, not shaved but shorter.
With husky type dogs they have what I consider a "natural" canid coat but many breeds have been bred to have excessively long hair. When it is hot outside I never think to myself what a good idea it would be to put on a fur coat to insulate me from the sun. And if dogs do not live outside they are not going to experience a great deal of either sun or cold. We can insist that certain things work in a dogs benefit because they can't actually tell us otherwise. If you have ever had a dog extensively shaved for surgery you know that the hair grows back normally. There is no reason why it wouldn't. Same as with humans. Hair itself is dead! I also see people blaming alopecia X on shaving but that is common to some breeds anyway.
Sorry that's not really how double coats work. The coat is intended to protect the dog from the sun (can cause severe burns as well as other issues) and also allows them to thermal regulate. If the guard hair is cut through "vanity cutting", sanitation cuts OR surgery, more often than not they dont grow back normal. This is why there is a very emphatic outcry from educated groomers, dog owners, breeders, vet etc when it comes to cutting hair for double coated breeds.
@@necromancerbb In 40 years of owning double-coated dogs I have never had a dog shaved for surgery, whelping, hygiene etc where the hair has not grown back normally and fairly quickly. I have also never seen anyone post a picture of a dog with severe sunburn. I think dogs thermal regulate quite well when they live in centrally heated/cooled houses. My vet is always asking me why I don't shave my dogs coats off BTW! I'm not really a fan of shaving dogs although I have shortened the coat of two of my dogs that are in their teens and struggling a bit. I think the hysteria around shaving dog coats is just another one of these things that is based on theories and presumptions, kind of like the whole growth plates thing. People will argue this stuff as if it is scientifically proven experience but it isn't.
The German Spitz breed comes in different sizes: dwarf spitz (or Pomeranian "in English") small spitz medium spitz giant spitz They are basically all extremely similar breeds, but split into different categories based on their size. The ancestor of the American Eskimo was the Giant Spitz and it's just a slight variation of the Giant Spitz. The Japanese Spitz was probably bred from the Medium Spitz, has slightly different proportions but the same size. (the Japanese Spitz is a little "longer")
I have an American Eskimo. I shave her down every summer and she loves it. I don’t even have to chase her down. All I do is show her the clippers and she comes right over. I think it has to be determined by the dog, the owner and their environment.
Mine too. He loves his walks. In the summer he gets about two houses away and he's done with the walk. Just stops and pants with his full coat. In the summer he roams from cool spot to cool spot in the house to sleep. I have a floor fan for him to sleep in from of. I don't buy this leave hair long.