Any Hope For A Clipped Coat?

[emilymarston]

Hormones play a big part in coat maintenance, so you will have little hope of regaining its former glory if she is desexed as well as being clipped mulitple times. Some coats become worse than others, but the texture can change and go from silky, soft and flat, to thick, wooly and wavy.

Bonnie still has some silky fur around her neck, and the tops of her legs. And both of those areas have been shaved every time. I think it might grow back, but will never be beautiful like her original coat.

Edited April 13, 2013 by Emily M

[becks]

When people are saying that clipping ruins a coat permanently are you referring to your own breed's coat, double coats, or just coats in general?

plenty of breeds, like spaniels, hard coated terriers, collies, sheps, pekes.......

with some breeds the coat may be recoverable but it can depend on the quality of the coat before clipping. eg a schnauzer with a harsh top coat, if clipped and loses the top coat, then it can be brought back, but a schnauzer with a soft top coat is never going to be brought back to a good enough coat to be worth it.

In the show thread there was a series of photos over several months of an american cocker whose back had been clipped and was now being stripped to bring it back to what it was and you can see that coat improving. (it was Ellz thread about getting the dog ready for a royal).

Just as some coats will be ruined by clipping, others in the breed will be fine to be clipped - it can be an individual thing as much as a breed thing.