Should i shave my corgi

Thick-coated breeds can easily suffer from the heat and shaving can help them cool off in summer. Before you roll up your sleeves and shave your corgi, take some time and arm yourself with the right information first.

If you make a mistake, you can damage the coat permanently. In this guide, we shed more light into some of the most important basics you need to know as far as shaving your corgi is concerned.

The first layer or the undercoat is made of dense, soft, and wooly-textured fluffy hairs that sticks close to the skin. In terms of shedding, this is the layer that sheds much. Instead, you will be doing more harm than good. All these are not only painful and expensive to treat but may also take a long time to heal. Your dog may also battle with scaling and dandruff, even after the hair has re-grown.

Instead, your pup may end up less intolerant to high temperatures. In addition, when you shave your corgi, the undercoat will grow back faster than the top coat, leaving the former to take over as the main coat. This soft, dense, and wooly coat will trap heat but will not reflect sunlight. As a result, your dog will always feel warmer and his body temperature will rise during hot weather conditions. The inability to regulate body temperature can be downright uncomfortable to your dog, leading to stress and panic.

This leaves your corgi feeling even hotter! Even after the haircut, your dog will still shed. Since the protective layer will be removed, the undercoat will continue growing uninhibited, causing even more shedding.

Use pet shears to blend the long hair at the base of the ears with the shorter hair. Corgi ears can get quite fluffy so blending the ear hair in with the neck hair gives your pal a clean-cut appearance. Feet trimming isn't necessary, but gives your friend's fuzzy feet a sleeker look. Use scissors to clean up the hairs peeking between his pads and shape your friend's feet. Do not shave -- or ask a groomer to shave -- your pet corgi.

Corgis have a double coat that offers protection from the sun's rays. A shaved corgi could get sunburn. Brushing and scissor snipping won't harm the double coat, but shaving may irreparably damage your pup's coat.

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The Fluffy Corgis do actually shed less, and they have an easier time living in warmer climates because of this. With that said, they do still shed like crazy. The regular Corgi will just shed more because it needs to lose a lot more hair to keep cool during the summertime. Do not shave — or ask a groomer to shave — your pet corgi. The AKC standard for Pembroke corgis requires that their tail be docked. The origin of this ritual was because their tails were traditionally docked as the breed was created as a cattle herder.

The tail had no purpose in herding cattle and only served as a liability for the dog. Shaving a double-coat can also do long-term damage. When it is shaved down to the skin, the undercoat hair will grow back faster, and sometimes will crowd out the slower-growing guard hairs. The Corgi is a herding dog. The Corgi has a medium dense double coat and needs to be groomed every 4 — 8 weeks, with more frequent grooming during the shedding seasons of spring and fall when they change coats.