OK, that's my announcement! I'm not sure if anyone reads the nutrition thread, and I'm despearte. Jacksy molts like you wouldn't believe. His brother Alby doesn't at all. Jacksy is 6 and it drives me INSANE. The photo is a couple of years old just to show he isn't exactly a Yeti, but jeez he drops some hair, and where he drops it-it just grows back over night.I'm not whining unnecessarily, believe me. I was wondering if it may not be nutrition or vitamin related-really, it's full on-all year round too-Any ideas? Help! Royalla, check out the elbows, ha ha!, and the one ear up one down everyone else.

jacksy has the elbow lumps too thank god lol i never put many pic's of connie up because they stick out like reds balls lol sorry well the saying is dogs balls and i think red is the king of that saying lol and sorry i hate to tell you this but some dogs just drop lots of hair all year round summa is a bad one for it and it gets worse when it is molting time but you can help by giving him a bath and while he is wet and soapy use one of those flat rubber hand mat/glove /brush things on him him that pulls out heaps of loose hair and after that if you keep doing it every day until it slows down then you can cut it back to every couple of days. i hope that helps you a bit and i will let you in on a secret white dogs are even worse ellie drops buckets of hair every day and at molting time you could just pull out handful after handful so i kicked her out of the house at those times lol

I dont really know if this relates to me...raz is kinda white with really short hair, and he doesnt molt much at all...

Oh, I know, but I thought someone may have come up with a remedy such as vitamins or something which slows it down a bit, you never know.

Paxy moults a lot too. There is usually a stack of grey, white and black hair behind her crate every week and when you pat her or rub her coat the hair flies everywhere. I've noticed in the last week that the hair on her chest which is white and quite thin is thinning where her tags must rub on it. Might have to change the style of tag on her collar. The elbow callouses are usually caused by lying on hard surfaces, like pressure sores and in some dogs can become really large and harden and can then crack and become infected. I think some dogs are more prone to it than others. Paxy is showing some signs of developing them and I'm looking at buying some rubber matting to put outside for her to lie on when she's outside (that's when she stops running to lie down!). Which will only work if she lies on it rather than the concrete!

Sorry, I sympathise, but can't help you there except to facetiously suggest shaving him!
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Come next summer I'm going to clip him right back I think, and tell people he's a Mexican Hairless Koolie dog.

LOL. That is funny. trying to imagine a hairless koolie dog and I think it wouldn't be a pretty sight.

I don't have a problem with Ceejay moulting. It is Izzy hair, you even find it in the microwave, it gets into everything, it comes as part of the package deal of Izziness. I vacuum a lot. But I have not heard anything about vitamins or anything like that. Brushing a lot helps. Maybe thank your lucky stars he is not an Alaskan Malamute, when they get brushes it looks like it has snowed in your backyard.

If you shave him, leave his tail hair and head hair on! a shaved dog with no tail hair just looks really embaressed...

Don't think I haven't done it before-he got hit up the bum by a car when he was 18mths and had to get a vertarae wired back together-so from his chest down, he got completely shaved, tail and all-I nearly got the poor embarrased bugger a pair of shorts ha ha.that's when I first realized merle was in the skin, not just the hair. Anyway, there was much tragedy and pschological damage untill his bloody super molting fur grew back.Ha Ha.

poor boy that must of hurt bad i know when dutchess was run over and she had a broken vertebrae in the start of tail she could not do numbers twos for couple of days after and then we had to give her a doggie laxative to make her go because it hurt way to much for her to even think about going but she did not need an op

Yeah, that's the one that was broken. The last back vertabrae right where the tail joins the backbone. He needed the op because it was just too smashed up, lucky he was young and recovered well. One thing though-he never wags his tail up very high, and I've always wondered if it was because of that injury.

I've heard a few good reviews about this product - FURminator deShedding Tool. Not cheap but heard someone with a Goldie talking about it with other Goldie owners and how good it was and the other Goldie owners were saying how nice a coat the FURminator user had. Also heard good things about it from other sources. I might consider buying one. I've previously used a rake with Paxy - she's not that keen on it though.
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yes dutchess never put her tail all the way up after that but after a couple of years she did get it 3/4's of the way up

Yea, it's funny because I've never been sure about the tail. He doesn't have a particularly lairy personality (but is the rock of ages if you know what I mean). Alby is the opposite "LOOK at ME! happy happy, waggy waggy, run run run.....splat into a wall!, ha ha" Jacksy is for too cautious and conservative for that. But anyway, after the op I talked to the vet who said he was lucky it wasn't the next vertabrae up which definately affects hind leg mobility and the like. He's never had a physical problem, except the 1/2 to 3/4 up tail thing- so it could be that his tail lost some mobility, who knows. They basically wired that vertabrae back together like a 3 dimensional jig saw puzzle. I saw the ultrasounds.

yes the vet said the same thing to me but you know the funny thing was she was not hit hard by the car at all i know i was in it at the time the car was in the back yard as my ex had washed it earlier that day and we all piled in to go somewere and did not think dutchess would be under it as it was not her done thing my ex started the car up nothing then he started to reverse and we heard a little bump he stopped the car and we lisened but heard nothing more so he started to reverse again and again we heard a bump OK THATS IT WHO LEFT A TOY AT THE BACK OFF THE CAR i got out to remove the toy in time to see dutchess coming out from under the car with her tail tucked and she started crying and biting at her rump OOPS! so we ended up at the vets instead of were ever we were going to go to.

Royalla that must have been a heartwrenching moment when Duchess was run over and for you too Shaunagh. Did you see him hit by the car? One of my fears in particular with the cat as she likes to greet our cars in the driveway and then lead the way into the garage. Fortunately we can see her tail up. When my toy poodle Bluey broke his leg he screamed. It was such a piercing horrible sound I will never forget.

Yeah it was a shocker. I had him out the front in the dark with me taking the garbage out and a car came belting down the road and didn't see him and drove fair up his bum. Luckily he went into shock. The driver was really nice and apologetic and helped me get him in the car to take him straight to the vet.

yes it's bad when your dog gets hurt by a car but it's even worse when you are in the car that did it