Molt - natural process. If the dog fades in the fall or in the spring - it is normal. It is enough to comb out wool only daily carefully. If the dog fades all the year round and scratches then it is worth pricking up the ears.
What influences a molt of dogs?
If the dog is completely healthy, then air temperature will act as the only factor influencing a molt of dogs. By the beginning of cold weather the dog actively begins to change wool and to acquire down, and in the spring, with arrival of heat, to get rid of it.
If the molt lasts the whole year, then the owner should be disturbed by the state of health of the favourite. Can be the reasons of a year-round molt:
- avitaminosis;
- violation of hormonal balance;
- decrease in immunity;
- diseases of internals of a dog;
- severe stress.
Besides, some breeds of dog possess long wool with very dense underfur. At such dogs it is difficult to define at what moment the seasonal molt began therefore it seems to many owners that there is this all the year round. Such dogs need to help to get rid of excess down by means of special hairbrushes.
If the dog who is not possessing "a magnificent fur coat" begins to fade all the year round, then it is worth addressing for consultation the veterinarian. If the broken hormonal balance can be restored by healthy nutrition and long active walks in the fresh air, then such reasons as diseases of internals, demand high-quality diagnostics and long-term treatment by special medicines.
Out-of-season molt as disease symptom
The short-term molt occurring during not season can become an alarming sign also. For example, the dog began to dump strongly wool in the winter, in the beginning of hard frosts. Or suddenly began to grow bald in the summer, after a seasonal molt.
If besides a molt the dog began to smell unpleasantly, then, most likely, this violation of work of sebaceous glands. This disease can be caused by both improper feeding, and use of low-quality shampoos and conditioners.
The strong out-of-season molt can sometimes speak about presence at a dog of an allergy. For example, after change of a forage, introduction to a diet of a new product or new delicacy it is possible to notice that the dog began to scratch more often from what from it wool strongly fell down. At the same time the dog can have an allergy and nonfood. For example, eating habitual food, the dog began to dump wool, to scratch, it observes reddenings and the increased salivation. It means that the source of an allergy or flies in air, or on surfaces to which it adjoins.
Parasites can be the reasons of nonseasonal molts also. Fleas and ticks provoke a dog to comb stings. Thus on skin there are damages, and wool begins to drop out. Besides, if the dog cannot grow wool, and its weight, then most likely is gradually lost, it is infected with helminthosis. It is in that case recommended to begin treatment as soon as possible.
The person who decided to get a dog has to be ready to everything. Including to the inconvenience given by molts. That in off-season the dog did not fade, it is necessary to watch over her health, to adhere to healthy nutrition, more often and to longer walk, air the room and to comb out wool.