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Coat types

Doodles come in three main coat types. Wool, fleece and hair. If you consider a woolly wool coat to be at one end of a scale and shedding coarse hair coats to be at the other end, your doodle could have a coat anywhere in-between. Not only that...it could be a combination of more than one type. Coats can also be very curly, somewhat curly, spiral curls, wavy or quite straight.

Hint for maintaining your favourite look.

You will find lots of pictures on this site of great looking doodles. Use them to take to your groomer to show what look you like or use them to follow for home grooming.

Coat Change from Puppy to Adult
Somewhere between 8 and 12 months doodles start growing their adult coats. Matte time! Since they don't shed, you need to comb the puppy coat out. This takes quite a bit of dedication and this stage can go on for several months. If you let your puppy mat at this time and resort to shaving, you STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM. You cannot shave it away. At some point, you must comb that puppy coat out. To make this stage easier, scissor the coat to about 2 inches in length so there is less to tangle. A seriously good way to reduce brushing is to buy a high speed blower. It produces cool air at high volume and really helps clean and untangle the coat.

Combing your doodle.
Use a steel comb. Start from one foot and brush..yes brush with a brush..the hair up. Then start down at the foot again and brush down in layers, making sure to always get to see the skin in the area you are working on before you go on. After about and inch or two, comb where you brushed. If the comb won't go thru, start again. Work thru the whole coat in this fashion.
Make sure you hit all the areas.
inside, outside and back and front of legs
upper and lower chest
sides, back and under tail
top of head and neck all the way around
under ears, chin and face
If a wool dog is very matted, it can take 10 hours to demat. If you have a fleece coat that is in good shape, it should take an hour or less to brush and comb the whole dog thoroughly.
Worst trouble spots: in front of hind legs, armpits, under tail and neck

To Do List for regular maintenance.
1. brush and comb twice a week or when ever you feel mattes ..dampen after brushing
These things to be done every 4 to 6 weeks
2. trim hair from between eyes as required to keep it from poking into the eyes
3. shave belly
4. trim hair from around anus and on male or female parts to prevent messy mattes that can get infected from bacteria
5. clip nails
6. trim feet ...inside of feet, around toes and trim length so it just barely touches the ground.
7. trim hair above eyes so it does not obstruct sight
8. pull hair from inside ears and clean with ear cleaning solution
9. shave hair from base of ear to increase airflow into the ear

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How to trim feet
You can trim feet with scissors or clippers. I prefer to use a combination of both. I first cup the dog's foot in my hand so the bottom is visible and keeping my scissors flat to the bottom of the foot, I trim all hair sticking beyond the foot. Next I take my clipper with a number 10 or 40 and trim inside between the large pad the the small toe pads. From the top of the foot looking down, I pull a hair back from toes and scissor hair from around nails and between toes. You can to this with a clipper too and make 'poodle toes'...not to be confused at all with poodle feet. You want the foot to have lots of volume from the top, but look clean underneath.

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Comment by Paul & Michele on March 12, 2009 at 8:58pm: Ok Hopefully I can get the pictures of Molly on here......

Comment by Ivy Bates on March 12, 2009 at 4:53pm: Kate, if you are going to shave the belly just go till you are behind the front legs. You may see it if she is sitting. Just stay back behind the front legs. You can shave by the back upper legs. You won't see it. You can go on Sunday too.

Comment by Paul & Michele on March 12, 2009 at 4:44pm: Hi Ivy, I really like the hair cut. How did you explain what you wanted. This is what I wanted to and Got it but it is wayyyyy shorter...

Comment by Kate and Maci on March 12, 2009 at 4:29pm: HEY IVY - Are you going to the Intergroom Show in NJ this year? (April 17, 18 and 19)

Comment by Ivy Bates on March 12, 2009 at 4:16pm: Hi Lucy, Sorry for the confusion I groomed Austin, I am a groomer of Labradoodles and Goldendoodles you can visit my website at www.doodlestyle.com

Comment by Ivy Bates on March 12, 2009 at 3:26pm: This Austin before, he was just brushed out only

This is after his trim today

This is Jesse my son who is why we got a Labradoodle in the first place

Comment by Paul & Michele on March 12, 2009 at 6:47am: Thanks Loretta, I will try taking her to Petco next time If I get the clippers and it doesn't work out. I am putting her in a Petco obedience training class at the end of the month, and took her there once before xmas to get washed because it was too busy at the time for me to give her a bath at home and blow her dry. I was really hoping this groomer would do a pretty good job because he had told me that they groom several doodles on a regular basis they were very nice there though.

Comment by Loreta Janca on March 12, 2009 at 6:38am: I'm sorry to hear about Molly's hair cut. That's always my biggest fear, is that they will cut Rusty like a poodle, and 2 out of the last 3 times, that's just what happened. This last time I took him to Petco, instead of going to the higher priced "salon". They actually did a much better job, now , granted, he HAD to be shaved because of matting, but his face looks great, like a doodle should look! He was shaved because I wasn't brushing close enough to the skin and he had some mats-more than enough that it required a shaving. If you have a Petco in your area, maybe try them. I was surprised at how good they are for being a commercial pet store.

Comment by Paul & Michele on March 12, 2009 at 6:19am: Donna, I understand completely how you feel.. I took Molly yesterday and she looks awful!! I will be buying a pair of trimmers that another member had suggested this weekend. I really stressed that I didn't want her to look like a poodle and would like her hair about 1 inch long because it might still get cold here (which it did last night almost 10 degrees outside now) and they shaved her neck so short you can't even grab any hair no matter how hard you try then the rest of her is maybe .25 inches. I could have cried..It will be all better though in a couple of months......

Comment by Paul & Michele on March 11, 2009 at 6:16am: Molly just got dropped off at the groomers,,,, I have my fingers crossed she looks ok when she gets done,,,,,,,,,

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