Shedding

[corgimom]

I also know that many pet stores will refund your money back when you buy those higher end quality pet foods. If you don't like the food for whatever reason, many will give you a refund, with a receipt.

[sweetlychee]

Corgis usually don't shed a lot and do so twice a year for winter and summer. Milo's hair gets all over the place however. I think brush their coat often but never trim them or cut them. Corgis require less maintenance compared to other breeds. Also, their coat allows them to be pretty good in the winter and doable for summer. When you give your corgi a bath, lots of hair will fall out. Just brush while wet and get rid of excess.

[glencorgi]

Corgis usually don't shed a lot and do so twice a year for winter and summer.

I have to insert a gentle correction here - corgis do shed and shed a lot. The rule of thumb is yes, they only shed twice a year - January to June and July to December. Shedding can be a reason/excuse they are turned over to rescue. IF someone doesn't want to deal with a volume of dog hair, then they should look for another breed besides corgis. Someone still dealing with a puppy coat hasn't been through the amount of fur an adult corgi can put out during a full blow. The below link will give you an idea of how much an adult corgi can and does shed:

<http://www.terenelf.com/SpockShedding/Shedding.html>

Keep in mind there was no grooming done when he began to blow/shed his coat and this was done to illustrate the volume of hair a corgi can put out.

While there isn't a magic answer to fix shedding, there are somethings that can help cut down, a bit, on the volume. Good diet and regular routine grooming - brushing and combing does help.

Debbie

[Chip's Mom]

As I have said before Digger was a corgi mix and he would shed year round. Big old gobs of it. Lady is the same. They both reminded me of that little boy on Charlie Brown that always had a cloud of dust around him. LOL Chip hasn't started shedding much but I am smarter this time around and have taught him that brushing is oh so much fun. I responded to an ad last year about 2 purebred corgis looking for a home and the reason was - the continual shedding. They had been evicted from in the house to an outside pen. Sad

[bajoiner]

Thank you for the information. I just wanted to be sure that shedding quite a bit was normal for Corgis. Sassy gets brushed at least every other day and sometimes more if she is shedding a lot. I do not mind the shedding, just wanted to be sure it was normal and not something she was lacking in her diet. I feed her Science Diet dog food and of course her frozen home made yogurt treats, veggies, and prescription diet treats for her teeth (which we also brush weekly when we clean her ears). Thanks to everyone now I can just rest assured it is normal and just brush away!!

[Housefullofdogs]

My husband and I went to a farm supply and bought a stock watering trough for our 2 corgis. It is about 14 to 16 inches high. They use this to cool down when we play with them. It was about $60 but has been well worth the cost. It sure beats the plastic kiddie pools. Our male corgi chewed that one up.

[CorgiMum]

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[Scotchyroo]

I just wanted to chime in that my corgis shed like crazy, all the time, in Michigan and in Florida. I also have a big yellow lab, and they shed way more than him.
We have a daily ritual where everybody gets curry combed (the kind for horses from the feed and grain store), and they absolutely love it. I put the hair out in the back field for birds to use in their nests.
That said, my Little Pete will shed even more if he gets nervous (bad weather, too many children around, etc.) even if I've just brushed him an hour before!!!

[Belroyd]

Either way, I've never had a corgi that doesn't moult all year round and a great deal too!! Like another owner, I put it out for the birds at nesting time and it disappears quickly. However, I don't know the answer, just brushing lots I suppose.

[Belroyd]

Further to my comments yesterday. I remembered that a corgi breeder once told me that the dogs she kept down the garden in kennels rarely moulted but the dogs in the house did - this she put down to the fact that in the kennels the dogs were in their more natural environment but the house dogs lived in a centrally heated atmosphere, etc.

[Michael Romanos]

Absolutely right, Margaret.
Corgis shed hair daily but the shedding can be kept under better control in climatic conditions befitting a double coated Corgi and of course, their coat look so much healthier and glossier. But a lot of the members on Go Corgi don't live in climates like you and I do - Britain and New Zealand. They are in warm to hot climates so a Corgi in those parts of the world wouild be better off with the air conditioning inside a house than camped outside in stiffling heat. The other major factor is that few Corgis these days live outside. People have come to realise they are not an outside kennelled dog. But I try as much as possible to keep my Taylor away from electric heaters which dry up his coat something terrible and subsequently creates hair shedding. When we have the gas heaters on, Taylor does not want to stay in the room for long as he has no need for any extra warmth.

[jprechel]

We must have over looked the fact that corgis shed so much because we were a little surprised when we found out! Ace has started a major shedding. I bathed him the other night and his hair clogged the drain! Then I brushed him and WOW! The hair just fell right off. Ace has just got to the point where he'll let me brush him without attacking the brush. He likes it now and will lay down for me. Between Ace, our cat Peiper, and myself, we don't own anything that doesn't have some kind of hair on it!

[Michael Romanos]

Yea, but didn't that bath remove a lot of loose hair. Great that Ace likes the brush - because grooming daily- even twice daily when in a shedding mode, helps keep loose hairs at bay. Don't forget the combing as well - probably more important that the brush.

[Fluffypants]

Originally Posted by jprechel

we don't own anything that doesn't have some kind of hair on it!

Funny you should mention that . . . here's an amusing story:
As a side business, I am an independent consultant for Passion Parties. Some of you may be familiar with us. We do in-home parties for women, featuring sensual products. ANYWAY . . . I did a party a few weeks ago, and was passing around one of my gizmos, and one of the women at the party said, "Why is there hair on this?" (the reason is because everything I own has dog hair on it . . . so it was on my clothes, and when I took said gizmo out of its little black bag . . . hair jumped from clothes to gizmo, and stuck to gizmo's rubbery surface).

But still, VERY EMBARRASSING trying to explain that!

[corgimom]

Very funny Jessica and I am not going to even ask you what your "gizmo" was

My elderly mother cannot stand dog hair; and she always seems to be wearing black pants when we come to visit. She is not in the best of health so she sits frequently. Cody of course, always seems to brush his lovely self against her pants; which results in her not being too happy.

Growing up, I always had dogs, well one day I decided to bathe my dog and use my brothers bath towel to dry him off; and of course, put the towel back where I got it from. Well, the next day, my brother used that towel after his shower, and you can imagine what happened....that is probably why I still remember this story; and he still brings it up on occasion to me.