Moulting. Oh, the moulting. Help!

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Hi,

I have a one year old lab X cocker spaniel and was NOT prepared for the amount of shedding! I can't keep on top of it! The car is covered in hair ALL the time. Luckily our carpet matches her hair, so isn't always visible, but everywhere else is permanently hairy! I vac the floors and furniture everyday, with a HEPA filter vac, but 2 minutes later, it's back to being hairy. I possibly don't groom enough, because she doesn't like it and it's a battle to keep her still. I have just groomed her. It took half an hour and each time, the glove was absolutely covered!

Any tips? It's out of control!

TIA

Put rubber gloves on and stroke her all over.

Labs moult year round and blow their undercoats twice a year.

Help keep her still by using something like this stuffed with cream cheese or something tasty and stuck to a a surface to allow her to lick it: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D0S4MOY/_encoding=UTF8?psc=0&coliid=I3ERFNBY2TVB8A&tag=mumsnetforum-21&colid=2TAF05C6FNRH6

Or by smearing honey or something similar on the fridge door and letting her lick it off. Clean well afterwards (obviously ).

Or by getting someone to hold a stuffed kong or a tube of primula that they squeeze a tiny bit into her mouth to let her lick at it. You can then get on a groom her plus she starts to associate being groomed with nice things.

If you do this every day it's a 10 min job a day - much nicer for her and you.

Personally I’d get her professionally groomed (and clipped!)
I can’t even bear the short hair from my constantly shedding dogs. Long hair would drive me mad

Thanks for the replies.

Her hair is short, it just never stops coming out. Especially towards her tail end. Even after I've gone over her again and again with a mitt, if you pinch her coat, it still comes out in clumps. I can't understand how she isn't bald! I'm praying that this is a full on coat change, rather than her average shedding. She's always moulted more than average, but this is ridiculous! I'm sat her now, with my formally black tights, looking like Chewbacca's legs! This is post grooming 😬

I take her to be bathed once a fortnight usually, but I don't see an improvement with her shedding. Only with her not smelling so disgusting 😂 bless her. Good job I love her to bits!

Oh and tips for getting hair out the car would be greatly appreciated too! Vacuuming does nothing 😕

Too many baths can affect shedding levels. My Lab has never had a bath and he is 6.

Lil wow....and he doesn't smell? Tbf, I haven't taken mine for about 6 weeks.

I have a lab cocker cross too, and she's exactly the same. It never stops.
Down near her tail and around her neck are the worse

No, he doesn't smell. The natural oils in his coat are self cleaning.

Strip those oils out and that is what makes them smell as they overcompensate by producing more.

I have a springer spaniel and I'm surprised he's not bald with the amount of fur left on the floor. We joke about knitting a jumper with it!

There is absolutely no reason to bath a dog with a shedding coat every 6 weeks, and you are indeed likely to be making things worse.

Teach her to stand on something to be groomed, less opportunity for fidgeting. A rubber car mat on a garden table, maybe? And be firm - no, I don't mean cruel, but insist she stands still for a couple of minutes (with help to hold her head and put an arm under her belly if necessary) and extend the time at each session. She is mucking you about, and you are letting her.

What vac do you have ? Shark are supposed to be the best for pet hair
I have a short haired dog that gets a bath monthly and sheds quite a bit but he isn't very good at grooming himself so baths are a must. To get the hair out of the car use strips of duct tape on seats like a waxing strip

What kind of glove are you using? I never found them any good. I use a Furminator and a grooming comb - from Pets at Home I think. DH also got an attachment that goes on the vacuum cleaner and both of our labs like getting it done.

Furminators are amazing as is the furminator shampoo and conditioner for helping shed fur

My yellow lab moults a lot and permanently. My black lab never moults. We have mounds of tumbleweed floating around the house permanently . They are 10 and 8, and never had a bath, I don't see the necessity in that I have to say.

If you don't bath your dog even once every few months then surely they smell of dog and ergo your house smells bad ? Or am i missing something there

Its probably the worst combination of dogs for moulting, labs permanently moult and cockers aren't much better, brushing the dog every day and hoovering the carpets regularly and maybe restricting the dog to one or two rooms to prevent hair getting everywhere.

I swear by the furminator, I use it once a week and get loads off our lab

Forgot the pic!

I second the Furminator suggestion.
Our lab is in constant moult it seems and the Furminator really helps keep it under control.