Cording the Spanish Water Dog, Part II

[Mnemosyne12]

This is wonderful -- thank you so much!

[Spanishwaterdog]

Hi,

I watched your videos of your lovely Dogs. They are so cute!

- If you want, you could check my channel out for some spanish waterdog videos ;)

A new video is soon coming out :D

[ariosaswds]

Well, I don't know why not. If you can break up the mats all the way to the skin.

Essentially, it's working fiber. Dog hair, sheep wool or hair, camel wool. yak wool.....

[gomarichard]

can you do 'cording' in any dog breed that 'matts'?

[JPWLouie]

Thank you so much! The videos are AWESOME. and SO informative. I have a white SWD with (educated by your video) a soft coat and was probably "felting" when we thought he was matting. I've been shaving him down because of it. Can you tell me the difference between matting and felting? I love that long coat but my first priority is ensure his skin stays healthy - that I am not mistaking mats for felts. Thanks!!

[ariosaswds]

Well, to my mind, matting is caused by rubbing (i.e., human hands, towels, or collars) and isolated to certain areas (behind ears, around collar).

Felting is a stage the coat undergoes at a certain length. That length depends on the thickness, softness and kink of curl of each individual dog.

You're right--the biggest concern for the dog should be health. But give the scissor-method a try. If you hate it, you can always shave it off! The toughest part about cording is PATIENCE.

[nicopsico]

Yo tengo dos hermoso perros de aguas y me parece que las rastas salen porque no los peinamos con frecuencia y el pelo muerto no se cae hay que sacarlo con el cepillo, el pelo se pone muy bello.

[ariosaswds]

Sí, las rastas se deben separar de uno a. Hago esto delante de la televisión en la noche. ¡Se convierte en una obligación! (Lo siento, mi español no es bueno!)

[Stoopudjurcee1]

Okay, important question. I have been researching cording because a woman with a standard poodle in a continental cut is interested in me doing it because of the whole maintenence aspect. Once the cording is done, how high maintenence is it?

[ariosaswds]

Two answers: the owner will have to keep up with the cord splitting at home, so that maintenance will increase (in lieu of brushing). Second answer: Once the cords are established (will take about a year before they're gorgeous--PATIENCE!!!), the coat is pretty easy to take care of. Wash with diluted shampoo and rinse, rinse, rinse. Squeeze the cords dry like you would hand-dry a sweater. They you can use a blow drier to dry the cords, which is a lot easier than line-brushing.

[pekerretxa001]

This is an awesome video thankyou very much. I myself have 2 spanish water dogs and we usually cut their hair cause we are not able to spereate the cords as you have done.

Where did you get Lola from?? Where are you from?

Its great to see that they dont only live in Spain :)

Hugs and kisses from North Spain

xxooxx

[ariosaswds]

Thanks for the comments! I am in the western US (Oregon). Lola belongs to a friend, she is a Benamaina import from Malaga. She is really sweet!

[pekerretxa001]

I bet she is, she mst have alot of patience to have that done to her, bless!! hehe

[ariosaswds]

Yes, especially since the dogs are not used to any brushing or mat-breaking up to this point. After this initial cording, it gets MUCH easier for both human and dog.

[pekerretxa001]

I was looking at my dogs fur yesterday, but they hir does not knot up like Lola´s does, they have independant knots that are really annoying and hard to break up. They both puppies, I guesse that when they get a bit older they´ll have propper spansh water dogs ahir haha

[mbuchan]

This is really interesting. I have 2 non show SWDs.

[RussellSimoni]

nice video.I hace two spanish water dog!!

hallo from Spain!!!

[SaiyaMel]

Hey Lisa! this is Melanie - the owner of the SWD Osito! he is doing good... i'll put up some clips i took of him sometime. ;-)

[ariosaswds]

Hi, Melanie! Good to hear from you! Yes, please, put up some clips!