Stripping a Border Terrier

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Any recomendations for stripping combs?

I 've just had an hour at it for the first time and whilst he was nice and relaxed and I have removed quite a lot, my fingers are sore.

He looks a little less like Gnasher now though!

I trimmed Westies and we used chalk powder on our fingers, but it's quicker with a proper tripping knife, once you've got the hang of how to use properly.

Good Luck.

I'll try chalk thanks.

I want to learn how to do it properly with a knife/comb but I'm impressed how easy it is just with your hands and whilst not finished he looks much tidier. He just snoozed through it too!

So pleased you posted this Fan, am trying to gear myself up to strip mine! I am waiting for a nice day so we can do it in the garden.....

OP
Westies have a much fuller, thicker and longer coat than Borders < I didn't know they had to be trimmed or stripped>. I started using the stripping knife as the skin on my finger and thumb was hurting from my Westie's extrememly hard - like fur tree needles- top coat especially on her back.
She did have full soft undercoat, which was not painful to strip.
Good luck with it.

I quite enjoyed myself 8hours but then I'm I self confessed hair picker, my hairdresser (a friend I hasten to add!) once hit me with a hairbrush over my picked split ends

He looks a lot tidier now though he needs more off yet.

digerd, if you most Borders you see about are stripped. If you google pics of them left to their natural devices some of them can be really hairy little beasties! They are very wirey if unstripped.

Y.es, I suppose I have seen them only stripped, just thought they were naturally like that . They have gorgeous otter heads and faces
8 hours without little breaks? wow. Do you have him on a table and sit down to do it most of the time.

Oh god no I was shortening the other posters name! I was at it about 40 minutes sat on the floor with him! I got a small football sized loose ball of hair in that time so I was pleased for a first go and he just went to sleep in the end when he hot fed up of trying to work out what I was doing and that I was't actually going to let him eat the giant hair ball. And yes, he did try to!

Been looking on google but can't find a pic of an untrimmed Border.
You did very well.
It took 2 hours with the Westies as they were also 'styled' And came to me in a mess. Owners would stay and hold them from fidgeting, and we'd have a few coffee breaks to give us and the dog a break!!

I had a proper table.

I now have a Lhasa Apso, who is a bundle of thick hair and needs coming through to stop matting regularly, but is cut short in a puppy cut - but no stripping needed < nor possible>.

Not sure if links work on my phone but heres one http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Border_Terrier_brothers.jpg

I still need to finish and he is only just getting tufty so not a full cost either. Still pleased for a novice though and he looks smart. I'm leaving his face be until too unruly though as like his scruffy scamp look.

I have an unstripped border :) he desperately needs doing though... he had a big mane like a lion at the moment..
he loves it though.. he gets all excited when the stripping knife comes out.. and we fill a couple of carrier bags with hair!

Didn't work but if you google unstripped border terrier and click images it comes up.

I'll try adding a picture on to my profile of him.. but am on phone so may take me a while... I'm cooking tea at same time !!

Worley I call his tufty neck ruffle his mane! He's only a pup still so hasn't got a full coat through yet, but he'd gone all tufty like Dennis the menaces Gnasher!

Ah he's a lovely furball Worley! Ours wasn't so hairy yet. Still intruiged to see what colour he will be too. We are always being stopped with, I'm not sure if it just popularity in my neck of the woods or are they one of those dogs where it is like owning a mini and you have to wave at other mini owners? His papers said he is a dark grizzle and some people have said he will end up light as theirs did. Others have said he is definitely blue and tan and will stay dark. He is totally black on top still with a smattering a brown grizzling on his rump. It doesn't make any odds obviously but I often wonder if I lost him, would I recognise him in a year? I don't intend to so this is just a random musing!

Mine is only coming up to 8 months and I have turned into such a Border bore since getting him.