The advantage of shaving your dog is that it can dissipate heat in the summer and prevent your dog from heat stroke. In addition, it can prevent parasites. If the dog suffers from skin diseases, it will be easier to apply medicine after shaving, and it will also be beneficial to the owner's care. The disadvantages of shaving are that some dogs will become depressed after shaving, and may not eat or drink. If the ultraviolet rays are too strong, the dog's skin will be sunburned, and it is also easy to be bitten by mosquitoes and cause dermatitis. Finally, incorrect shaving methods can also cause folliculitis in dogs. Overall, shaving your dog usually does more harm than good.
1. Benefits of shaving dogs
1. Helps dissipate heat
In hot summer, shaving dogs can properly help dogs dissipate heat. Prevent dogs from heatstroke. But dogs mainly dissipate and cool down through the sweat glands and tongue on their foot pads.
2. It is beneficial to the owner’s care
Some dogs will have knotted hair. If it is serious, the dog’s coat needs to be shaved short or Shaved. This not only reduces the pain caused by unknotting to the dog, but more importantly, it facilitates the owner's daily care of the dog, and bathing is also very convenient.
3. Reduce the infection rate of external parasites
If the dog’s coat is too thick, it will easily become a hiding place for fleas, lice, ticks and other parasites. Shaving your dog can effectively reduce the infection rate of such parasites, but owners still need to deworm their dogs regularly!
4. Facilitate the treatment of dogs with skin diseases
If the dog suffers from skin diseases, it will be more convenient to apply medicine and medicated bath after shaving, and it will better maintain the skin's health. Breathable and dry, helps dogs recover faster.
2. Disadvantages of shaving dogs
1. It is easy to damage the hair follicles
When shaving dogs, if the technique is not professional, it will It is easy to damage hair follicles, which may result in hair loss in the future.
2. Easily sunburned by ultraviolet rays
In hot summer, shaving your dog can have a certain cooling effect. However, if the ultraviolet rays are too strong, they will sunburn the dog's skin, causing skin damage and darkening.
3. Cause the dog to have low self-esteem
Shaving a dog will actually affect its mood and may hurt its self-esteem and cause it toFeeling of inferiority complex.
4. It is easy to cause skin diseases
Dog’s hair can protect the skin structure very well. After shaving, there is no protective layer of hair, and mosquitoes, bacteria, fungi and other pathogens will directly Invasion of the skin, causing skin diseases.
5. Easily bitten by mosquitoes
When the weather is hot, there are more mosquitoes. If the dog is shaved, it will be more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes. . Mosquito bites can not only cause dermatitis, but also spread infectious diseases such as Japanese encephalitis and epierythrozoidosis.
3. Precautions
It is generally recommended that owners should not shave their dogs except for problems caused by some diseases. Generally speaking, there are two situations in which dogs need to be shaved. One is that dogs have skin diseases, which can be easily treated after shaving. One is that the dog's hair has not been combed all year round, and the hair is severely knotted and cannot be combed out.