How To Prevent Matting in Cavapoo -3 must-have dog brushes that works

The best to way to avoid a matted cavapoo is to establish a grooming routine.

Brushing your dog at least three times a week will remove any loose hairs and detangle the healthy fur.

To avoid matting of a Cavapoos’ fur, focus on specific areas of their body where this is more common, and don’t bathe them first unless you want more trouble. 

All of the rubbing and scrubbing that occurs during a bath, can aggravate the problem. It is far preferable to address the problem with their dry fur.

This is especially crucial to do if you like to keep your cavapoo’s fur long.

Frequent brushing keeps your dog’s fur-free of knots and dirt and leaves it feeling sleek and soft.

Brush your cavapoo and trim them before bathing them. Water will create or worsen the mats and prevent a deep even cleansing of the fur and skin.

A professional groomer’s comb is an excellent tool to use to prevent matting. It has rounded teeth that are differently spaced for different-sized knots.

The smoothness of the teeth is gentle on the dog’s skin. While it is good for avoiding matted fur, it is not the best tool for existing mats.

Pro Tip:

No matter what tool you use, brush against the growth of your cavapoo’s fur to find the mats, then gently work them off.

Preventing Matting and reducing Shedding

If your dog’s coat is left unattended, gets dirty or wet it will matt more easily When dog hair becomes wet for example the hair shrinks and tightens further as it dries.

This will eventually lead to dreadlocks or compacted coat depending on your dog’s coat type. 

Most coats like hand stripped terrier coats or smooth coats such as Labradors even poodle coats, will repel dirt and water more easily when kept in optimum condition.

To prevent your dogs coat becoming matted or compacted and reduce shedding:

🐾 Brush or de shed your dogs coat regularly, a minimum of once a week and anytime before and after it becomes wet, through swimming, washing or running through muddy puddles.

🐾 Keep your dogs coat clean and well-conditioned, this helps maintain the healthy hair shaft and smooth down those barbs.

🐾 Always rinse thoroughly as shampoo residue will cause dirt to stick to your dog’s coat more.

🐾 Dry the coat and brush thoroughly using a comb to check for knots in longer coats “remove knots with a brush not a comb”.

🐾 If you have a longer or curly coated breed, keep your dog’s coat trimmed regularly to prevent those split hairs matting. 

Longer coated breeds need clipping a minimum of every 8 weeks if they are not brushed in between.

🐾 Allowing a dog’s coat to become tightly matted to the skin is painful for your dog and the only thing that can be done is to shave it off extremely short.

It is vital to the health and welfare to maintain your dogs coat through winter months. 

Many people worry the dog will get cold and leave grooming aside until we are in the middle or end stages of winter.

🐾 Keep your dog on a healthy diet rich in omega oils, a glossy healthy coat will also shed less and repel dirt and water.

🐾 Regular de shedding unclogs blocked hair follicles reducing itchy skin and conditions like seborrhoea which results in waxy greasy discharge and foul odours.

🐾 Ideally a bath and full brush out once a month from a professional groomer will prevent your dogs coat matting and there will be no need to shave short during the colder months.

For high shedding dog breeds more frequent de shedding treatments, baths and blow drys will help reduce the amount of hair around your home as the life cycle of these coats is much shorter than a curly, long or wavy coat.