Young Woman Angered by Golden Retriever Shedding, Chooses Portuguese Water Dog After a Year
This client is a senior dog owner, and often helps new dog owners consult about dog raising problems, including recommending suitable breeds to those who don't know what kind of dog to buy. Recently, this friend chatted with a veterinarian about dog shedding, and shared a funny story about helping a little girl choose a dog.
A little girl was preparing to adopt a dog and was unsure whether to choose a Poodle or a Labrador. She consulted with the friend, and after the chat, the little girl said she didn't like short-haired dogs, preferred long-haired dogs, and especially loved Golden Retrievers. However, she worried about the heavy shedding of Golden Retrievers and how difficult it would be to manage them during shedding season. Therefore, she decided to choose a short-haired dog to avoid the trouble of long-haired dogs.
The friend told her,It's important to adopt a dog that you like, don't adopt a dog you don't like, because if you don't like a breed, you might magnify its shortcomings and potentially abandon the dog. Long-haired and short-haired dogs both shed equally, it's just a matter of length. Picking up long hair is easier than picking up short hair.
- Longer hair is easier to see, so it's easier to clean up. Long hair is often soft, so when it falls out, it tends to tangle together, making it easier to clean up. Short hair is hard, and when it falls out, it's one by one, and it's scattered everywhere.
- When long hair falls out, it doesn't immediately fall out everywhere. We can use a comb to comb it off. However, short-haired dogs, as soon as their hair falls out, they will shed it everywhere.
- Long-haired dogs just look like they shed more during the shedding season. This is just a visual effect.
- After talking for a long time, the little girl mistakenly thought the friend was a dog dealer trying to sell her Golden Retrievers, so she finally decided to buy an Eight-point dog.
- About a year later, the friend encountered the little girl again in a dog group, and asked her how the Eight-point dog was doing. The girl said: 'Don't even mention it, when I first bought it, I thought you were a dog dealer trying to sell me a Golden Retriever to make me buy one. After buying the Eight-point dog, it didn't shed much at first, but when it was shedding again, it shed a lot, and I finally realized you were right that short-haired dogs are harder to clean up. It also kept complaining about it.
Finally, the friend could only tell the little girl some tips for cleaning up the hair and hoped the Eight-point dog wouldn't be disliked and abandoned because of shedding.
The veterinarian reminds everyone:
As the friend said, it's easier to clean up long-haired dogs than short-haired dogs when it comes to shedding, so if you're concerned about dog shedding but not too demanding, you can choose long-haired dogs.
If you can't accept dog shedding, you can choose a non-shedding dog, such as a Teddy or a Poodle, or don't adopt a dog.
When adopting a dog, you should choose a dog according to your own preference, and you should also understand the shortcomings of the dog in advance to see if you can accept it, and then decide whether to adopt it or not.
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