What is the best type of Brush for Daily Grooming

[Goldenheart]

<span style="font-family:georgia; color:green;">I am wondering what brush is the best to use on our Goldens for Daily brushing. Thier are so many types of grooming brushes and I am just a little confused on which one I should be using<img border=0 src="http://www.topgoldenretrieversites.net/smiles/054.gif" /></span>

[honeyhunter]

Hi Goldenbear- I use a slicker brush and a rake on Honey. Whatever brush you use just make sure that you also brush out the undercoat. Instead of brushing the coat downwards brush from underneath first in sections. You must be able to get a comb to go through the hair after brushing. The undercoat will matt very quickly especially after he gets wet!!! Daily brushing and combing will help to prevent matts. ;) You may want to take him and have him groomed for summer and have them thin out his coat some. Please don't let them shave him down! I hate the looks of a shaved golden. We do it at our shop b/c the owners want it but we are sick when we have to do it!:(

[CanadianGolden423]

Hi,
Probably a pin brush, the one that looks like a human hairbrush.

Samra

[GoldenGirl]

Honeyhunter - OH NO!! LOL...don't mention shaving again :rollin ....we had a BIG discussion on shaving...thought you'd like to see for yourself:

Shaving a Golden? (http://pub33.ezboard.com/ftopgoldenretrieversfrm35.showMessage?topicID=160. topic)

ps - that was Goldenheart that posted the original message, not GoldenBear ;)

[Collett and Charlie]

Ha Ha Goldengirl, definitely remember that topic! Got kinda heated there for awhile. Those are the ones that I just slowly back away from! Tip toe....tip toe....

[Goldenheart]

<span style="font-family:georgia; color:blue;">Yea.....them are the ones that ya feel you better be lookin', and ready to duck at any moment.<img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" />

Words are a flyin' pretty hard at those moments.<img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/roll.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/roll.gif" />

I got it figured all out though from now on through, I'm just gonna play dumb from now on through with the shaving of a golden, and the food subjects.....<img border=0 src="http://www.topgoldenretrieversites.net/smiles/094.gif" /></span>

[Goldenheart]

<span style="font-family:georgia; color:navy;">Ok, got it.<img border=0 src="http://www.topgoldenretrieversites.net/smiles/032.gif" />I have been using a brush that looks like a rake, so I guess its called a rake brush<img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif" />Anyway, I was beginning to doubt if I should be using it cause I brush Bi daily and I am still taking hair out of her like you wouldn't believe, even now. I know goldens shed constantly, but I could make myself a fur coat out of what I am taking out of her<img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" />Black jeans are out of the question for right now.

Thanks everyone<img border=0 src="http://www.topgoldenretrieversites.net/smiles/032.gif" /></span>

[honeyhunter]

:lol Thanks for the giggle GoldenGirl!!! I missed a good debate topic! ;)

Oops! Sorry GoldenHeart! :o The rake is what I use and get alot of hair everytime also! Ask your groomer to blow out the coat with a forced air dryer while she is soaped up in the tub, it helps remove ALOT of the undercoat! Put the dryer against the skin. That will help and by removing the undercoat it will help with the summer heat! I use a shop vac with a blower attachment at home on my dogs and the dogs I groom from home. Works great!

I hope I haven't offended any shavers out there! :eek

Angie:b

[KCGoldens]

We use a pin brush or a rake on Cayenne. She is really furry and we get alot of stuff every day when we groom her!
We use a metal comb on Thunder, his hair is still really nice and smooth and not much of it. We get a little bit of fuzz when we groom him! :)

[Goldenheart]

<span style="font-family:georgia; color:navy;"><blockquote style="padding-left:0.5em; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; border-left:solid 2">That will help and by removing the undercoat it will help with the summer heat! I use a shop vac with a blower attachment at home on my dogs and the dogs I groom from home. Works great!</blockquote>


I don't know if Bianka would take to kindly to that shop vac<img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" />
She already runs and hides behind me when I use it to pump off the water off the pool cover, like I am gonna be able to protect her<img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/roll.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/roll.gif" /><img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/roll.gif" />she is such a wimp sometimes.<img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/eyes.gif" /></span>

[honeyhunter]

I've only used it on Honey twice and she was scared to death. :( The first time I didn't get to finish her because she flipped out and I didn't want to traumatize her for life and the second she scratched me and kept trying to get away. I almost had to sit on her to do it! :lol I just started at the backend and kept rubbing her belly and talking to her and reassuring her. She still wasn't happy about it! LOL She can be a real big wimp too at times!: She will eventually get used to it if I keep it up though. Her undercoat isn't real heavy right now so hopefully by next summer she will be used to it!:)

[GoldenGirl]

I've used the ShopVac on Kally a couple times and she likes it! :029