Bella's hair is matting so bad its driving me crazy...help

[DENISE517]

I love dressing Bella up in outfits, but only after having them on for an hour, she is a complete mess. She has the thick cotton coat and its takes me an hour afterwards just to get mats, etc out. I've even tried putting Cowboy Magic on her before clothes.

At the meetup yesterday she had a harness vest on for a couple of hours and it was soooo terrible getting her mats out when I got home.

So here is my problem.....I love the dressing up. I either have to stop dressing her up so much, or have her cut down.

I was thinking about having her cute down. Her face staying the same since its kinda shorter, and cut short everywhere except keeping her feet fluffy. Does anyone ever cut there yorkie this way. I saw a pic on one once and it was really cute. That way I could keep clothes on her. Need your advice and opinions please!!!

post if you have pics. thanks!!!!

[luvnmymax]

Captain Jack's puppy hair was very cottony..so I cut it off!! His hair underneath is very silky!! It sounds like you want a modified westie cut. I groom quite a few yorkies with that type of cut. I think it is cute. Captain Jack's hair is still only about 2 1/2 inches long, so he wears clothes so he won't be cold, but I know when it gets longer I'll have to stop dressing him up . I really want to grow him out, but if his hair starts to get cottony again or curly it will give me a good excuse to cut it off and buy more clothes

[means143]

Maybe you can try the COWBOY MAGIC...some people are raving about it in another thread

[means143]

^ it detangles hair

[MyFairLacy]

I would just keep letting it grow..she's still a puppy and has her puppy coat which tends to matt more than an adult coat will. Rylie has a soft coat and I can dress him without getting matts...but he does get some tangles sometimes. I LOVE Chris Christensen Ice On Ice..it's a leave-in conditioner and helps with dematting. But I would just let it grow and hopefully once her puppy coat grows out and becomes an adult coat she won't matt as much

[red98vett]

She looks so much like my Chanel did as a puppy...

I found Sea Breeze Oil really helps but you're pretty much stuck like chuck with the cotton coat. They are harder to take care of.

[jp4m2]

Hi Denise, I know exactly what your talking about with Bella's coat. My Jack has the same coat, Sometimes it was like brushing out cotton candy, I would dread bath time with him. It usually too me an hour and a half to do him. Not any more! ....I just bathed him last night and he was done in 30 minutes!!


I posted a thread on this product I found at Walmart and I think you can get it at Walgreens. It's called Hask Pure Shine Spray ON Luminator. I like the fact I can just pick it up at the store and it's only about five bucks!! It has been a Godsend!!!

I didn't like Cowboy Majic either it was soo thick to work with, it was like trying to spread honey in his coat and I couldn't get it on evenly. The next day he was looking poofy again and if I applied more C.M. he just looked oily. I don't have that problem with this product.

It's a light spray and it goes on evenly and lightly. And the best part is once he's done I don't have to spray him again in between baths, for him it lasts til his next bath, which is in about 6 days! Here's the link to my thread on it. I just love his coat now it's so soft feeling and it ha a nice shine!....Good luck.....


http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/yor...tony-coat.html

[Timmy]

I don't dress up as much as I used to because of them getting matts. Even Gabby which has the silky coat gets knots after wearing clothes. You can try giving her that cut you were talking about. I cut Mimi's hair the same way...her body short, her legs long and a nice cute cut on her face which is not too short. Mimi can wear clothes all the time with her hair cut plus I keep her short because she's always scratching due to her allergies.

[Erin]

Mine both have cotton coats and I love short cuts so we just do it that way. I only have to comb faces - no brushing required! (Sam hates to be brushed anyway). There is a certain style to it that my groomer and I have figured out so they don't look "shaved". Loki gets a 7 blade (he's short, but his hair lays nice and smooth and I love it) and Sammy gets a 5 blade. Then we scissor the legs. Bellies and "armpits" get shaved. That helps the most for when they are wearing clothes! Sometimes she still gets knots but we go every 6 weeks and she gets a bath every week so the knots either come out with conditioner and when I brush her to blowdry her, or they just get cut out when we go to the groomer. Since she is so short anyway if she does get a mat I can cut it out and you don't see it.

I will send you better pics - she just got cut this weekend.

[Babz]

I had this prob just this week.

I never did dress Mocha. One because I couldn't find nice dresses and two because I live in the tropics. But just this week I took both of them to the mountains for a vacation, and she developed the most horrid tangle under her armpits I was so upset... She never had tangles before. If you see my dog Lulu you'll know why. I brush my dogs religiously. I tried to separate the mat with my fingers, but it just pulled and pulled and i couldn't cut it either.. she's very twitchy. She got hurt by that tangle Now she's afraid of the combs and brushes... I am soooooo upset. All that work to get her get used to grooming, gone with a tangle

[PANAMA69]

D my Phoebe hair get so matted too, I love to dress her, I just comb her before and after the clothes, I have cut her hair short for summer, but I guess is somenthing that I have to deal with it, for the next 16 years or so

[HarrisFamily]

Hi,

You might try cutting her down, her sister's puppy hair matted really bad, but now that I cut it off she isn't matting at all. She looks so pretty with her long hair, but it will grow back if you don't like it short

Whitney