Post by Die Fledermaus on Sept 11, 2009 21:24:27 GMT -4
As far as dogs being hypoallergenic, the allergens from the dogs aren't in the hair, they are in the skin. So it doesn't matter how much a dog sheds (even non-shedding breeds still shed a little bit) the ones the people aren't allergic to just mean that that particular person isn't allergic to the dog's skin.
When dogs get clipped, trimmed, cut, whatever, it's 98% of the time an aesthetic thing. Very few breeds of dogs actually NEED to be clipped. Unless the dog has a skin condition or something they don't need clips. Our old collie never had to be clipped, the hair only grew so long and then would stop.
You've just said there is no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog. I thought there were, such as the Portie.
I like the fact that you said "aesthetic"!
You also said that almost all dogs do NOT need clipping. Actually, I thought hair grew a certain length and then stopped.
She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know
It's not for lack of break
Like the Grateful Dead
Darling
Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!
Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short
Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair
My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair