How to Prevent Your Dog From Shedding

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about how to keep your dog from shedding. Now, there is what are called safer, healthier ways to keep your dog from shedding, and some less healthy ways. We're just going to focus on the healthier ways that involve using a brush, like this one. A lot of supplements exist, sprays, pills, things you put in your dog's food that are said to prevent shedding. Whether they work or don't work remains to be seen. A lot of them, the documentation is "iffy", but there's a lot of those that aren't necessarily the healthiest thing for your dog. What is a healthy way to get the hair out when you want it, and prevent too much from coming out as they're walking around on your furniture, is by using a brush like this one, which is harder on one side and softer on the other. The other good thing about this is that dogs will typically like them. First, we can use the hard brush side. So we want to start with our dog sitting. Sit. And we'll start with the hard side. And as you can see, she's paying attention to a lot of the noise going on, but she does seem to like this. You just want to be careful with the hard side going over the head. You don't want to go too rough. And as you can see, this will really get a lot of hair out. After you're done with that side, you can switch to the soft side, and with this one you can go all over the head. And as you can see, she really seems to like this. And you can really go as hard as you want with this one, applying pressure. And the amount of hair that this will get out, even from this short-haired dog, is really pretty amazing."