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jimjolli

Hello,
I have a lovely 10 month old Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla. I have been told that it is good for their coat to strip the hair, which I have been doing by hand.
Recently somebody gave me some advise to use a Mikki Stripping Knife, which I started using but found it awkward and seemed to cut the hairs more than strip them.
Today, I met a lovely gentleman in the park with a HWV and he recommended to me a 'Mars Coat King', which he demonstrated to me and it seemed to work wonderfully.
I went online to buy one but there are loads of different sizes. What do people think of these? What would be the best size for a HWV? I was thinking a size 12 or 16? Any advise would be welcomed.

Cheers,

Jim

Bareve · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject:

From a "wirehair" owner (albeit more of the German kind to the Hungarian we used to have) I would have to say that the Mikki Stripping knife is dreadful and as you've found out all it does is cut the coat.

The coat king is also a tool that will cut the coat especially if used wrongly but used correctly it is a good tool for pulling out excess undercoat. I use a coat king for grooming but it's not used that regularly.

However as a "basic rule of thumb" if he is quite hairy to start with I somewhat doubt the coat is actually ready to come out at 10 months of age. If he has on the whole a shortish coat with some long, dead coloured whispy hair across his neck and back then they would be ready and if it is it will come out "very" easy.

Can you send a picture?
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jimjolli · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:

Here she is:

Bareve · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

She is very pretty and well used to posing in front of the camera Laughing

I would say looking at her front on that her coat could be tidied quite easily by the hand stripping method - finger and thumb and pulling the dead coat out. I really cannot see her body but I cannot really think it is thick enough to warrant a coat king.

Just got to remember that if you "pull" the coat out it will take longer for it to re-grow to the same length - if you cut/clip the coat it will grow quicker and ultimately softer and thicker.

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