How To Grow Shih Tzu Hair
The following article has been provided courtesy of Maria Laaksonen of Tamaria Shih Tzu in Finland.
Introduction
The Shih Tzu is a mannerly little domestic dog, the fascinating expression of which is crowned by a cute, long coat. Oft i tin hear people wondering what a demanding, difficult and fourth dimension-consuming job grooming the coat must be. Likewise a question ofttimes asked concerns the fact that the coat of some Shih Tzu might be long and shiny while the glaze of the others resembles more of a messy lamp brush. A cute and a long coat is not a mystery, the solving of which would require a higher education. In fact, the nuts of the successful training of a Shih Tzu are, very simply, regularity and thoroughness. So the commencement thing to practice is to learn regularity and to invest in the training of the puppy. In this fashion, many troubles can be avoided.
How To Begin
It is especially of import to become the puppy used to the grooming. The grooming of the puppy will take simply a few minutes, but these minutes are a very important practice for the future. Oftentimes the puppy does not want to stay nevertheless while preparation, but this does not mean that the puppy can not exist trained. The Shih Tzu is an intelligent dog that, with the assistance of regular practise, volition larn the nuts of grooming very rapidly.
Information technology is advisable to do the preparation and staying still later the puppy has first had the possibility to play and rage. This manner, the puppy will exist more peaceful and easier to handle. The puppy should exist accepted to be treated always in the same place, preferably on a table, so that the owner does not have to hunker. The table does not have to be designed specially for trimming. Whatever kind of table volition do every bit long as a house surface is used and so that the puppy tin can feel safe being able to sit down and stand up firmly. When the puppy is sitting peacefully, groom the hair through with a brush or a comb. Use your other mitt to agree the puppy gently but tight. In add-on to being intelligent, Shih Tzu are also daring and may effort to jump down in spite of the altitude. Hence, never go out the puppy alone on the table. Comb
It is of import that regular pilus care is considered a overnice result by both the owner and the canis familiaris. Otherwise it will be as well easy to avoid the whole thing. A good instance of this was a wealthy lady whose dogs had very beautiful coats. Still, the lady herself considered training of her dogs equally a heavy duty. I was amazed, but after having visited her abode the reason was obvious. The business firm was huge and fancy, but where was the tabular array used for the training? Information technology was placed in the basement, in the last corner of the laundry room. Even though the household work done by the most of the ladies is usually given less priority, information technology does not mean that this would be an advisable thing to practice with grooming your dog. In other words: ladies, bear witness a little bit of feminist mental attitude and place the trimming tabular array in the living room in front end of the TV!
What could go wrong?
Many times I've wondered how many people will fail in grooming their Shih Tzu's coat and tell me that the process is unpleasant. I've come to the conclusion that the ground of the pilus intendance is in the trust that must be built between the dog and the owner. The canis familiaris must exist able to trust that the procedure volition not hurt. 1 must larn to disengage the tangles gently, showtime with fingers and and then with a brush. The tangles should never exist ripped with a comb: that will definitely hurt, and at that place is no reason why any canis familiaris should have to stand up unprofessional handling. Thus, undoing the tangles asks for patience. Furthermore, the pilus should never be let become awfully tangled, which can be prevented with a regular grooming. Elementary, isn't it? Till the age of 7-8 months, the hair of a Shih Tzu puppy will be piece of cake to have care of. After this age, the more than difficult stage can come as a surprise for both the dog and the owner. In case the puppy has non been accustomed to a regular handling so far, it could be wiser to start all over. That is, to cut the tangled hair off and permit a new one grow. It takes well-nigh a year for a Shih Tzu'due south hair to grow back. While the hair is growing, one can learn to take care of the pilus and train the dog to be treated in the same way that a puppy would be trained. If possible, the pilus in the caput, tail and ears should be saved, since the hair in those parts will have the longest to abound back.
Grooming Equipment and Cosmetics
Choosing the right kind of training equipment is also very important. You do non have to collect a huge arsenal of brushes and combs in order to survive. It is plenty to invest into a few devices of good quality. You cannot beget to purchase cheap, i.east. in this case it is advisable to pay for the quality. Moreover, the brushes and the combs should exist kept clean and treated well in order to increase their life span.
Grooming liquid is used in combing, for example Ring5 Glaze Gloss is a adept product and information technology can exist purchased from most of the pet shops. You lot can too mix your ain liquid using water and a conditioner. The ratio of dilute depends on the conditioner, but usually a expert ratio is one spoon of conditioner to 0,v liters of water. Since the conditioner mixed with water volition not keep for months, it is advisable to mix the liquid in small portions at a time. When choosing the shampoos and conditioners, the best affair to do is to buy quality. And a practiced conditioner is more important than a adept shampoo. Many of the conditioners on the marketplace are not caring enough for a Shih Tzu coat and volition cause tangles more than easily. In order to salvage time and effort, it is advisable to use products that take proved to be excellent in use. Suitable product series are for example Vellus, Coat Handler, Biogroom, #1 All Systems, Jean-Pierre Hery, KW and Summerwinds. These products are available online or from most general championship shows.
Some products of the series mentioned above that I prefer are, for case, Glaze Conditioner of Glaze Handler, Hair Care Balsam of KW, Conditioner Concentrate of Vellus and Summerwinds Protect-a-Coat-Oil. I do not recommend the use of strong oils, similar lanolin or mink oil. The oil of Summerwind is low-cal and can be used equally a preparation liquid for a dry pilus when mixed with water. The conditioner used for a Shih Tzu glaze must be strong enough so that it tin be left in the coat. The products that are rinsed away are far besides light and therefore unsuitable for a Shih Tzu coat. Good shampoo products can be plant from different series. For puppies, it is appropriate to choose a balmy shampoo, and information technology is anyway improve to avert using as well potent shampoos, since they make the glaze dry out. Practiced shampoo products are, for case, Super White of Biogroom (suitable for white whiskers and paws), Protein-Lanolin of Biogroom, Shampoo Concentrate of Vellus and Protein/Puppy of KW, just a few to mention.
How to Groom a Shih Tzu
When the correct equipment has been purchased, the preparation will be easier. When training the hair, 
You could begin with, say, the paws. The dog is lying on his/her side and you are preparation beginning his/her legs and underline, then the sides and finally the base of operations of the neck and the ears, each part layer by layer. Afterwards grooming one function, the same function can be finished with a metal comb in order to be sure that no tangles were left within the pilus. The tangles are spread out with fingers, and and so the whole glaze is groomed through, footling past little, pilus past hair. It is of import to straighten upward the hair all the way through to the skin. This volition be easier if information technology is done layer by layer. Sometimes one can see dogs that accept been "clean-cut": outside, the pilus seems to be straight, but if the canis familiaris is being held with both hands, one can feel soft lumps inside the hair - tangles. To avoid an unfortunate fault like this, it is wise to learn to groom the hair through and to carefully check that information technology is certainly without tangles, all the way to the peel.
When both sides have been clean-cut, the canis familiaris tin can exist fix to stand up on the table and to part the hair in the heart along with the backbone. Then groom through the tail, the coat in the backside and finally the coat in the neck, the caput and the ears, and make a new acme-knot. You lot could cease the glaze with a rummage and, at the aforementioned fourth dimension, to check that there are no tangles left in the coat. All this tin be too done in an contrary social club. The nigh important thing is that everything is always done in the same gild so that a caring routine will be developed. Moreover, the hair must never exist groomed dry out since this will make the pilus gather static electricity and intermission the hair. Grooming liquid should always be used.
About Tangles
Shih Tzu have a double coat that consists of hard topcoat and soft undercoat. The tangles are built-in when the undercoat drops and is mixed up with the topcoat. The hair in the tangles is loose and volition become off from the tangle by grooming and by using one's fingers, especially if the hair has non been tangled for a long fourth dimension. The longer the tangle is in the hair, the tighter information technology gets. An experienced groomer can estimate the age of a tangle when seeing ane. There are tangles of ii days and of two weeks…
If the tangles are ripped off with a comb or a brush with abrupt teeth, as well the topcoat messed with the tangle will suspension, and as a result the domestic dog will accept a hair that is messy and cleaved. The tangles are formed peculiarly in the armpits, inside the legs, behind the ears and in the neck and sides, and these are besides the places where they can be missed the most easily. Recollect to be thorough when going through the coat. The first tangle stage is in the historic period of 8-10 months, and for a bitch puppy, afterward the showtime season at the latest. The puppy is offset to change its puppy coat into an developed coat and the undercoat is loosing up causing tangles. The difficult stage may last until the age of 2 years, depending on the quality and amount of pilus. After surviving the first two years with the pilus, the hair care of a grown-up Shih Tzu is really simple.
Daily and Weekly Grooming
As mentioned above, the puppy should be accustomed to the grooming past teaching him/her piddling by little every day. When the dog grows, y'all do not have to - and must not - fully groom him/her every day, since training too often will wear the hair out. The daily grooming will include making new acme-knot and checking of ears and eyes. The principal thing is that the pilus will not hang down in front of the eyes and the dog can see where information technology is going. Nonetheless information technology is advisable to middle the coat through every solar day and see whether in that location are tangles inside. The coat of a immature dog changing its coat is to exist groomed in periods of 2 or three days, and then that the bottom pilus loosing up will become off and is not able to grade a tangle as big as the dog him/herself. Every bit the dog is getting older, one thorough grooming per calendar week is plenty.
How Oftentimes to Bathe?
Bathing is an essential role of the hair intendance of a Shih Tzu. How often this is to be done depends a lot on whether the domestic dog is going out downtown or in the countryside, i.e. how fast volition the hair become dirty. Washing the coat is besides important in case i is planning to accept a show career for her/his Shih Tzu. In that instance bathing should accept place at least in one case a week and the coat must not exist clean-cut without bathing. The cleanness of the pilus is essential, since a make clean coat will wear off less and gather less tangles.
Shih Tzu can be bathed when it is felt necessary, that is, every time they are muddied. Normally the puppy is less often in need of a bath since he/she has less coat than a grown-up. Nevertheless, the puppy should exist bathed at to the lowest degree subsequently few weeks in order to get him/her accustomed to bathing. But, in case yous desire your Shih Tzu to have a beautiful evidence coat, it should be bathed once a week and during the hair-changing period, even more often. The coat does not have to be touched betwixt the baths, and the glaze must never be groomed dry. I would like to emphasize that for a regular pet the weekly bathing is not necessary at all. This kind of canis familiaris should be bathed when information technology is felt that the bathing is needed. Otherwise the hair is cared by grooming information technology regularly and thoroughly in a way that no corking tangles volition exist born.
In The Bath
Bathing is fun, so reserve plenty fourth dimension and relax. When the puppy is beingness handled peacefully, it will chop-chop acquire to stay yet. The worst mistake is to launder the puppy rapidly and roughly and then that it will larn to be afraid of the bathing. Exist positive and existprepared to be wet yourself.
For the bath, buy a baby tub. The most suitable bath tub would be one with legs or a stand so that you would non hurt your dorsum. If you are bathing the dog in a bathroom tub or on surface otherwise slippery, gear up a rubbery mat on the lesser of the tab or on the surface and so that the canis familiaris can feel comfortable. In addition, yous volition need a shampoo and a conditioner, and an extra bottle and a container of one litre to dilute them. Y'all can too have a whisk or a mixer to dilute the shampoo and the conditioner evenly to the water.
First, dilute the shampoo into the bottle or to the container. Check the ratio from the instruction manual. Commonly a suitable ratio is one teaspoon of shampoo into a litre of water. Start past wetting the domestic dog thoroughly. Cream the pilus in the behind and the hind legs, and rinse the shampoo away correct away. Do non let the "bathing tangles"
In case the dog is very dirty, one bottle of diluted liquid may not be enough and you lot may accept to dilute some more of the shampoo. On the other hand, if the domestic dog is not very muddy, you could cream only the legs and the underline and not the cleaner backside at all. Using as well much shampoo could make the hair dry, so common sense is needed. And the shampoo should always exist used only when diluted, since the pure shampoo is too stiff and could damage the pilus.
Then dilute the conditioner to the container and, again, check the ratio from the instruction manual. You should not be also stingy with the conditioner, and the conditioner should exist of that kind that it can be left to the coat. If your canis familiaris has a lot of glaze, you may need more of the conditioner than the directions say. Set up the dog to the tub and pour the diluted conditioner on top of the dog. Spread the conditioner to the coat by showering the dog and at the same fourth dimension, let the tub fill up with water. Close the shower and let the canis familiaris stand in the conditioner h2o. At the same fourth dimension, pour the conditioner water on all over the dog. Don't rush, but let the conditioner piece of work for a few minutes. So you tin can let the water run off and by hand clasp the most of the water from the hair before wrapping the dog inside towels. If there seems to be too much conditioner left in the pilus, you lot could shower the domestic dog once more before wrapping him/her inside towels. It is definitely important to leave some of the conditioner into the coat, since information technology is protecting the pilus from tangling, drying and wearing.
Drying
Keep the domestic dog wrapped into towels in a warm place at least for 20 minutes. For instance, you could go along the dog in your artillery and watch the TV at the aforementioned fourth dimension. After a while, change the towels into dry ones. You can wrap a coating on summit of the towels if you feel that the domestic dog is getting cold. A thorough drying with towels is of import, since it will brand the drying with a hair dryer easier and quicker. It could be handy to get a holder for the hair dryer. This way, you would exist able to employ your both hands. When drying the dog, go the whole coat through in the same mode when training. Groom the hair open from the part that the dryer is blowing at the same time. The dryer must not be too hot and burn the dog's skin and pilus. When grooming while drying the dog, you are able to feel the air temperature with your easily. Be systematic and check that the whole hair is dry, from the root to the end. I myself always start the drying of the dog from the caput, and after the hair in the forehead is dry, I will collect information technology into a ponytail. When drying the head, a low power should exist used. Similar grooming, too while drying it is important to practice everything each time exactly in the same manner. This fashion, you will acquire the routine and no part will exist left wet.
Drying
Keep the dog wrapped into towels in a warm place for at least twenty minutes. For instance, you could keep the dog in your artillery and picket the TV at the same time. After a while, change the towels into dry ones. You can wrap a blanket on superlative of the towels if yous feel that the dog is getting common cold. A thorough drying with towels is important, since information technology will make the drying with a hair dryer easier and quicker. It could be handy to go a holder for the pilus dryer. This way, you would be able to utilise your both easily. When drying the canis familiaris, become through the whole coat in the same way as when grooming. Groom the hair open from the function that the dryer is bravado at the aforementioned fourth dimension. The dryer must not be likewise hot and burn down the canis familiaris'southward skin and hair. When grooming while drying the dog, you are able to experience the air temperature with your easily. Be systematic and check that the whole hair is dry, from the root to the end. I myself always start the drying of the dog from the head, and after the hair in the forehead is dry out, I will collect it into a ponytail. When drying the head, a low power should be used. Like preparation, also while drying it is important to do everything each time exactly in the aforementioned style. This style, you volition learn the routine and no part volition exist left moisture.
Summit Knots
One should begin to practice making top-knots equally shortly as the hair is long plenty and it can be attached with a pivot. One or 2 pins are enough for a puppy, only after the hair has grown and is long, more pins will be needed to keep the pilus abroad from the eyes. For top-knots made for dwelling house surroundings it is advisable to use xanthous safety bands, since they are light and non and so tight. Also the whiskers should exist attached with pins and so that they won't get into the domestic dog's oral cavity. Here you can meet a picture of the top-knot of a young Shih Tzu. The hair has been parted in the middle and pulled dorsum with a couple of pins. The last pins have been turned to the sides. Too the whiskers have been turned into sides with a couple of pins. There are several variations of the hairdos like this. The most important is that the hairdo is not too tight. If the domestic dog had a long hair in the forehead, it could be plait to the sides and the hairdo would go on its form very well. If you are heading to a competition next day, do not plait the hair since the plaits will leave the pilus curly. When attaching the whiskers with two pins, fix the first pin in a way that the hair is parted in the middle of the confront, from the lower corner of the center to the side of the muzzle, and the whiskers are carefully combed aside before attaching the pin. And then attach the other pin past parting the hair from the outer corner of the eye to the side of the rima oris (see the picture). Finally bank check that the beard hair do not mess with the pins in the whiskers and then that the dog is able to open its mouth properly.
The Last Words
In addition to the data given higher up, I should also say that the pilus of a Shih Tzu can be taken intendance of by keeping it short. The hair is not a value as itself, and a Shih Tzu will feel just fine in a brusk coat. In many countries in which Shih Tzu is a popular pet, keeping the hair curt is more like a rule than an exception. However, it should be remembered that Shih Tzu is a "coat dog" anyway, and fifty-fifty if the coat is kept short, it volition anyway require regular care-taking. If the canis familiaris were erstwhile or ill, information technology could be advisable to consider cutting the coat, since the hair intendance may strain a domestic dog in a bad shape. In some cases cutting the hair may even make the domestic dog feel a couple of years younger.
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