Spitz-dog – a dog with very dense, magnificent and quite rigid wool. Such wool quickly becomes soiled, falls down, forms koltuna, to it seeds of plants cling. The accurate hairstyle will help to avoid these problems, to facilitate the procedure of combing and will give to a spitz-dog tidy, attractive look.
Standards of breed do not provide a spitz-dog hairstyle therefore if a dog exhibition, her hairstyle is made several months prior to the planned action that wool managed to grow up. For exhibition dogs only the small cutting of tips of the sticking-out wool on edges of ears, around small pillows of paws and on back extremities is admissible – from a hip to a skakatelny joint. If participation of a spitz-dog in exhibitions is not planned, it is possible to make also shorter hairstyle, having issued a figured hairstyle. It is necessary to remember that removal of too large amount of wool can lead to violation of thermal control of a dog and emergence of bald spots on a skin.
Preparation for a hairstyle
The hairstyle of a spitz-dog begins with thorough combing of its wool. Previously all wool is a little moistened with cool water, combed fingers that water got both into the top layer of wool, and into an underfur, pound a dog a towel. Since the head, the spitz-dog is combed a crest with rare teeths, dividing hair partings wool into certain sites. After that the dog is carefully combed a massage brush and a hairbrush with frequent teeths.
Spitz-dog hairstyle
Hairdresser's scissors with the rounded-off ends and thinning unilateral shears will be necessary for a hairstyle. At the beginning of a hairstyle to a spitz-dog remove surplus of wool from the back surface of ears then, equaling at this length, shear wool on tips and the front surfaces of ears. On a front surface you should not remove too much wool, otherwise visually ears will look more, than actually. Further the contour of "collar" is formed - clean excess wool after the head, on each side and from a breast of a dog. Length is removed at first direct scissors, trying to give to "collar" rounded shape then edges straighten by means of thinning shears. Length of wool of "collar" is used as a reference point at a hairstyle of the corps of a dog. Take away the sticking-out hairs on shovels, a back and the side surfaces of a hip, moving in the direction from the head to a tail. Thinning shears level wool on all corps of a spitz-dog. The tail is cut thinning shears serially from two parties, leaving rather long wool – it creates illusion of high landing of a tail and facilitates to a dog a zakidyvaniye it on a back, according to standards of breed. In the hygienic purposes quite short hairstyle of wool near a tail root is allowed. By means of a slicker brush raise wool up on front and hinder legs of a spitz-dog then remove surplus of length on "trousers" of a dog. After that small scissors cut insteps back and forepaws, giving them rounded shape. Between fingers wool can be sheared rather shortly since these places are most of all subject to pollution. Finish a hairstyle the general straightening of length of wool on all corps of a dog by means of thinning shears.