How to care for a curly dog

 Separate from other breeds are dogs with curly hair, for example, poodles. How to take care of a curly-haired dog? A professional groomer answers! The hair of curly-haired dogs is double: someone has an undercoat, someone does without it. At the same time, the outer hair is not hard, as, for example, in terriers. This type of coat has both pluses and minuses. On the one hand, these dogs do not smell and do not shed, the coat gives the dog volume (which allows you to experiment with a variety of haircuts) and has water-repellent properties. On the other hand, such wool is constantly growing, which means that the pet must be constantly cut. Another disadvantage of caring for a curly dog’s coat is that tangles form very quickly, so a poodle, for example, needs to be combed often (at least once a week) . The softer the dog’s coat, the faster it gets tangled. The structure of the coat of such dogs depends on genetics, but may change during life. For example, there are lines of poodles in which the coat “ripens” and becomes quite hard by about 1 years. There are still corded poodles, but there is an opinion that these are ordinary poodles, which people themselves made like that, because an ordinary poodle can also grow “dreadlocks.” If you just have a pet, washing it once a month is enough . If you have a show star, then “bath days” must be arranged at least once every 3 weeks. Types of poodle haircuts are prescribed in the breed standard. At exhibitions, we mainly see haircuts “Modern”, “Scandinavian lion”, “Veteran”.