Not in reference to the paint, but the fluff which the spring weather has encouraged to be born from my dog's body (back legs especially). Having never had a GSD before Jabba, I am not sure what to do to the control the profusion of fluff, which I am assuming to be her winter coat. She is not really shedding it, it just sort of sprouts and when I gently pull it it comes away cleanly in my fingers. I built up a whole pile of it on Saturday afteroon (hope this is the right thing to do, she didn't seem to mind). I am sure I could have spun it and made a Jabba jumper. Anyway, I would really like to know
a) what is this profusion of fluff?
b) how do I get rid of easily? Is there a special grooming tool?

Look forward to your help, as always

I'd use a wide tooth comb - but I'm not a dog groomer, just a pet owner with experience of a Rough Collie..... As for disposing of it, you can spin it and knit with it (seriously!) or put it in peanut holders and let the garden birds help themselves to line their nests with.

HTH

Yep my dog gets this and I groom him outide and I am not kidding at this time of year you can see the birds lining up on the rooftops waiting for me to go in so that can have 'deep pile' linings in their nests!:D

Molly my Boarder Collie has shed so much fur you can see her pink skin on her back legs and her belly! She is getting rid of her winter coat and I have to groom her outside and the piles of fur that comes away!

When I got her from Battersea over a year ago now, I had only had her a month or so and she started to shed all this fur I was worried she was ill it was everywere in clumps or lose hair, I took her to my vet who said it was normal for her and she was very healthy.

So twice a year she does this I use a large brush leave the fur in the grass for the birds and she gets a cod liver tablet and a garlic tablet once a day. Oh and my hoover is on over time!!

Julieann and Molly

This is how undercoat moults. I took out about two carrier bags of this fluff from my Chmpion Elkhound bitch the Tuesday before Crufts, her friends hardly recognised her without her thick coat!

Use a long tootehed metal comb, the one with wide spaced teeth one side and narrow the other. Use the wide teeth first followed by the narrow, and then use a slicker brush to collect what you missed!

for me the worst part is when after about three weeks and all the under coat has stopped coming out, the top coat may or may not all go! you thenhave all this wire wool all round the place like those Tumble weeds in Westerns!

My GSD does this Jabba and believe me you can get a carrier bag full a day out him and still it keeps coming, and gets into everything.
Amazing how quickly the birds clear it from the garden though isn't it.
Ingrid