Got some flaxseed today - does this really keep dogs from shedding?

[jwirr]

[Sera_Bellum]

1. Hope this is informative.

http://www.dinovite.com/blog/2011/12/stop-the-crazy-shedding-today/?gclid=CNSU3Lqe7K0CFYvRKgodsmTT7g

We make homemade food for our pooches, plus a few kibbles tossed in. Let me know if you would like the recipe, will be happy to send.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. I have never heard of this, but you will have to let us know

how it works. Personally, I can't see how anything would stop the shedding, since it is a natural process that really has to happen after the thick coat of winter isn't needed. But maybe?

If it doesn't work, I use flaxseed on salads, etc. It is supposed to be good at helping control cholestrol.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Our GSD is like a walking Hair Grenade

She sheds constantly. Spring and Fall are marked only by slightly MORE shedding.

I share you skepticism that shedding can be stopped.

[mopinko]

4. hair grenade

[99Forever]

5. As our vet told me...

... the good news is that GSDs only shed once a year. The bad news is that it lasts 365 days. Daily brush outs aren't optional.

With one white (Sadie Mae) and one black (Nakita) no surface in the house can hide the fur.

[TorchTheWitch]

6. I figure if you have a hairy pet you have to learn to love it on everything

And in everything... like, your food and your mouth and eyes. There's no escaping it. It'll be on and in everything no matter how diligent one is in trying to keep up with it. The worst seems to be the car. I don't know what in the world car upolstery and carpet is made from but the molecules of it seems to blend with dog hair molecules so there's no separating the two.

One thing that's nice about Akitas is that they really do only shed once or twice a year, they do it all at once for about a week or two and then that's it. I know many short haired dogs that are more of a plague of shedding fur... like, my next door neighbor's Bull Mastiff has that sleek short hair but he sheds all year long constantly, and though they brush him every day he still leaves half his coat on you if he brushes against you. I never understood that. He seems so bald to me, but it's him that leaves great swaths of hair on me especially in the summer.

I always wanted to save the lovely soft undercoat that comes out of my dogs and see about making yarn out of it and ask my sister to knit something for me (since I can't knit, and she loves it and is really good at it). I found out about a lady a few hours drive away that does this with dog hair, but I have no idea how to get in touch with her or what she charges. I would so have loved to have had a scarf or sweater made out of the shedded undercoat of the dogs that are waiting for me in heaven.

[PotatoChip]

7. That is the one and ONLY thing I don't miss

about my GSD's passing. I love how I can sweep and vacumn now only once or twice a week as opposed to almost every day!!! I suspect I'll be finding Jimmy-dog fur piles in odd places for a very long time to come.

But back to the OP-- if this works, (or even slows down shedding) please let us know for future reference. Fingers crossed that it does!

[Worried senior]

8. We had a basset hound

and gave him fish oil after reading about it on another forum, it helped a great deal as they a heavy shedders.

[jwirr]

9. And flaxseed has a lot of Omega3 in it.