Dog Coat

Where can I find functional dog clothes?
my dog is my little furry child, however when I say clothes I don't mean like use her as a doll. she has a double coat, it was causing her to overheat in the summer so it was supposed to be trimmed a little. is aware that dogs shouldn't be shaved because it interferes with protection from sun/weather/hot/cold, so it was just a trim. the grooming business totally ignored my specifications however and totally shaved her. it's getting in the 40s, she's cold. people tell me it won't bother her but when we're walking and she's shaking so hard she can't walk I'd say it's pretty freakin' cold for her. I'll wrap some light scarves around her, helps a little but they fall off. anywhere I can find lightweight little dog coats? booties too if possible?(might as well have some, will snow soon)we're outside a lot and I want her to keep warm. <:(

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here is a specific question i have a siberian husky how do you get that show dog coat?
if there is actual show dog owners please tell me too what do you do.

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Why would my full grown dogs coat suddenly change?
I have a 1 1/2 year old mixed breed female dog. She has always had a brown and white medium length coat. About six months ago people began to comment that she was developing pretty auburn highlights on her ears and the "feathers" on her legs and tail. She was spending a lot of time out in the sun and I attributed it to sun bleaching. Now I'm noticing that the reddish areas are also a different length and texture than the rest of her coat. They are long, prone to dredlocking, but when she dreds they actually fall right off, and they have a cottony, fluffy texture. This reddish, cottony, fluffy coat has also become apparent in symmetrical patches on both sides of her back (leaving a really comical sleak, shiny, dark brown stripe of her original coat right down the center of her back) and running down the sides of her rump. Her vet sort of scratched his head and said "weird, isn't it" when I pointed it out to him at her checkup. He said it could be sun bleaching, which could possibly be affecting the texture, but he had no explanation for why this fur appears longer than the rest of her coat, or why it breaks off so easily. It looks, and feels, for all the world as if she's had a chemical processing gone bad! Since I don't dye my dogs hair, and she hasn't had a perm recently, I'm baffled. The skin under the funky cottony red fur appears perfectly healthy, the patches don't appear to itch or cause her any discomfort, and it would seem that my grown dog is suddenly developing a new...really funky and sort of ugly...coat. Has anyone heard of anything like this? I've tried special shampoos, frequent brushing, etc but the weird coat seems to be staying. To answer a couple of people....she's not overweight at all, and she's never been shaved. She does have a fairly severe flea allergy, and at first I thought the funky coat was because, during a move, we accidentally missed a dose of her trifexis. I assumed she'd scratched off her topcoat, which she has done before in the past. However, when she resumed her treatment and stopped scratching, her coat didn't revert back to normal and the discolored and cottony patches spread. Her vet appears unconcerned but she was such a pretty dog and now she looks like we've been letting beauty school failures practice on her!

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How do I make my dogs fur soft?
Ok so my dog it a yellow lab and I don't get why every other dogs coat and fur is shiny and soft but my dog. Even if I wash him after he gets dirty and rough. And help would be great. Oh! And he also eats pedigree if that helps thx! :)

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Johnson's baby shampoo on dogs? And or help on fleas?
Hello, I need advice and suggestions. I have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Terrier Mix. Both are using Earth bath Oatmeal shampoo. I just recently switched them off of Earth Bath Tea Tree Oil. It is about 15$ per bottle. Last me for awhile but, I take my dogs out and sometimes my Terrier Mix comes home with fleas. I believe in all natural, so I decided to get Natural Defense Flea ointment. However, that did not work and it seems like it attracted fleas instead! Flea shampoo have chemicals that I do not want to use on my dogs. And the all natural stuff does not work. My terrier mix has a lot of fur so it's hard to manually take out the fleas. I used a flea comb and once in awhile I would only get 1 flea but she still itch like crazy. Anyway, someone suggested I can use Johnson's baby shampoo and leave it on my dogs coat for about 5 mins and it should kill the fleas. Is that true? Is it ok if I use baby shampoo on dogs? My chihuahua when she takes a bath using earthbath, her skin turns read and bumpy but after she dries she's back to normal. I'm unsure why my dogs itch so much? They're indoor dogs and I bath them once a week. Or once every 2 weeks. I am planning to bathe them later when I get back from school and I wanted to try out the baby shampoo. Thanks.

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