Shih Tzu Grooming – Don’t Get A Shih Tzu If You Can’t Groom It Everyday
The long-haired Shih Tzu, if you didn’t know, actually has two coats. The long coat that many pet owners love to brush for hours is the outer coat. It also has an inner coat, that’s usually wooly. Despite a lack of patience with an attention-demanding and high maintenance pet, some people want to own a Shih Tzu.
Just a waning, please reconsider getting a Shih Tzu if you cannot commit your time to its daily grooming. Be informed though that this breed has a lifespan reaching about twenty year, and that’s a long time to keep grooming it, if you do it yourself. So you need to be sure you can do this if you want to have a health Shih Tzu.
Impulse buying or adopting is not going to be a good decision, if it’s a decision at all – just because you spend some time watching a dog show or combing a friend’s Shih Tzu, doesn’t mean you can take care of it. The ones in dog shows selected specimens, so to speak, chosen on tight grounds. They look so well and stylish and behaved because their owner put in a lot of hard work training and grooming them. Shih Tzu grooming is a habit a good pet owner should develop, but that some, unfortunately, don’t.
It’s not news to anyone that some people purchase or adopt this breed, and then, after experiencing first hand just how demanding it is to keep one, they give up – they give it up for adoption. But what turns off some people is exactly what other people need – a routine, a bonding session. Grooming their beloved Shih Tzu is an activity some people love. Because of their fierce loyalty and devotion, the Shih Tzu are a hit companion pet among the elderly.
There is one way to reduce the need to keep grooming that hair, and that’s to consult a specialist, a dog stylist. You could have your dog undergo a haircut, quite stylish of course, so it remains looking adorable, but less in need of grueling everyday combing and overall grooming. Although you may want to consider this, but you might have to put up your dog for adoption.
For dog owners who tend to be very busy they neglect cleaning up the house and tending to their kids – if you’re planning to get a Shih Tzu, think again: if you can’t regularly do your duties as a parent, you’ll fail miserable in stick to a Shih Tzu grooming schedule. Irregular grooming only creates problems for the dog, inconveniencing it at the least, and posing health worries at worst. What you want to avoid is for your Shih Tzu’s coat of hair to mat, get tangle up, be the home base of numerous parasites leading to skin lesions and a host of other diseases.
