Airedale Terrier Hand Stripping
Airedale Terrier Hand Stripping
How to Hand Strip an Companion Airedale Terrier.
This video shows you how to strip out coat so that’s it’s safe for you and the dog!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Like many terriers, the breed has a ‘broken’ coat. The coat is hard and wiry. The coat is meant to be kept not so long as to appear ragged, and lies straight and close, covering body and legs. The outer coat is hard, wiry and stiff. Airedales may have an undercoat which is softer. The hardest coats are crinkling or just slightly waved. Curly soft coats are highly undesirable.
Airedales bearing undercoats are generally groomed by hand stripping where a small serrated edged knife is used to pull out loose hair from the dog’s coat. Most Airedales require frequent (2 to 3 times a year)clipping or stripping as they do not shed.
The AKC breed standard states that the correct coat color is either a black saddle, with a tan head, ears and legs; or a dark grizzle saddle (black mixed with gray and white). Grizzle that is a mix of red hair in the black, often on the area of back before the tail are often the best and harshest coats. There are, however, examples of non-standard black-coated and “red” (tan) coated Airedales, (the solid colored Airedales are NOT able to be AKC registered, since they are deviations from breed standard and have yet to be proven ‘purebred’ Airedale Terriers.) There are also the short coated “Redline” type Airedales, they appear to be genetic throwbacks in looks to the Airedale’s early days when the breed’s coats were much shorter than today’s Airedale. Even with their shorter coat they still have the same hard wiry outer coat with a soft under coat and fall well within the criteria of the breed standard and therefore can be AKC registered and most are registered.
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Airedale Puppies
If you’re looking for a larger Airedale Terrier a couple of litters are due the first week in December. So, if you act quick, you can have your new puppy around the first week in February 2016!
Pre-orders for these puppies have already started and obviously no one knows exactly how many will be born. So, if you’re interested send me an email at: SEO711@gmail.com with your contact information and the city where you’re located and will get back to you.
I usually tell people that wonder if it hurts that the dead coat is just shedding that wont let go of the skin, so by pulling it out we help the dog shed. People usually get that. 🙂 ?