The LONGEST groom I've EVER done! | The Komondor Dog

Easily one of the world's most recognizable dogs, this large corded dog that resembles your floor mop is a powerful Hungarian breed. Weighing over 100 pounds, they are muscular, intelligent, and stellar at their job. This is Max and he's a two-year-old Commodore. Before we get started, I'd just like to remind you that if you are a regular viewer of my channel and you haven't hit that subscribe or follow button yet, well, that's just rude. This is Max's first experience at a groomer. Despite the owner's best efforts, he was unable to find anyone willing to take on a corded dog. These dogs are an extreme amount of work and their coat requires a lot of time and patience. His owner has done a remarkable job maintaining his cords and get this, this is his first ever dog. This dog is definitely used to being bathed. It's important that a corded dog is bathed in diluted shampoo. Their cords act like a sponge and absorb the suds, which means it requires a lot of rinsing. Using straight shampoo would make it very difficult to rinse the soap out and we don't want to leave any residue behind because that can cause the dog to become itchy and irritated. I'm just going to squeeze this shampoo in here and you are very dirty under there. After the dog has been soaked up, you want to use your hands to squeeze the shampoo into the cords. Your feet are filthy bro. So I'm going to rinse for the next 500 years and then I'm going to add purple shampoo. Some groomers don't use a purple shampoo on corded coats. If the shampoo isn't properly rinsed, it can leave the coat with a gray tinge. In this case, Max is very stained so I'm using a diluted purple shampoo in an attempt to remove some of the staining. This just means I need to do a lot more rinsing. A better way to lessen the staining would be to soak a corded dog in soapy bath water. Unfortunately, this isn't possible for me because my tub does not allow me to fill it with water. Very diluted tearless for the face. Once I am finally done washing Max, I rinse for the next 100 years. I use both my nozzle and my hose without a nozzle to create a thicker stream of water. As I rinse him down, I squeeze the cords. You know you're done rinsing when you squeeze the cords and you no longer see suds. After he gives me a shower, I use my absorber towel to squeeze the water out of his cords. I do this until he is no longer dripping wet and then it's off to the blow dryer. Ideally, it would be best to dry a corded dog in a crate with a dryer and a fan facing them. Max here is not crate trained and he turned into a 120 pound solid boulder when I tried to get him in one. So he will be dried with a high velocity dryer. Drying him with the HV dryer can cause a little bit of frizzing, but if we left him to air dry, we run the risk of him smelling fowl like mildew and causing mold to grow. So I will dry him with the HV dryer until he is about 80 percent dry. Using a towel underneath him and one under his cords, I run the HV dryer along his cords and the water comes spraying out. It's important to note that corded dogs are not your average matted dogs. Instead, their coat is a system of organized mats. The difference is that a matted dog has tight thick matting on the skin, preventing the skin from breathing and causing constriction, which is inevitably painful and can lead to other health problems. Cords are not matted to the skin. They move freely. You can not only see Max's skin clearly, but you can also see how it's not irritated. The cords don't hurt them and they are light to the touch. Despite how it may seem, they do not cause the dog to be weighed down. Corded dogs are not neglected dogs. On the contrary, they are extremely well cared for and pampered dogs. I bet you didn't know that the Commodore, you guessed it, is a livestock guardian dog. Apparently, livestock guardians are my new specialty. Their corded coat was not designed for fashion, but it was actually designed to help them do their job more effectively. The cords prevent predators from being able to sink their teeth into the dog's skin, and it also helps disguise them in a crowd of sheep, which takes the fierce predators by surprise. In addition to that, like all double coated dogs, their coat protects them from all weather conditions, keeping them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Once the coat is finally dry, we start the most tedious part of all. First, I spray him down in an antistatic spray. In order to prevent Max's coat from matting, I have to go through his cords one by one, and whenever I see them clumped together, I pull them apart and down to the skin. This does not hurt the dog. An owner of a Commodore would have to do this weekly, if not daily, to prevent large clumpy mats from forming. This keeps the cords and the skin healthy. Next, Max has what's called bells at the end of his cords. This is caused by puppy fur that was not corded, and eventually it mats up, causing a bell. To fix this, I will trim each side of the bell to make it even with the cord. They can also be trimmed off, but that would lose a lot of length. If the owner does decide to trim them off, they would need to be cut at an angle or rounded. Cords should never be cut blunt. Another option would be to brush each one out. The puppy fur would likely break off. Since Max has already been here for five hours, I won't be able to fix every cord today, but the owner can work on them slowly until he achieves the look that he desires. Being livestock guardians, they are highly skeptical of strangers, and often aggressive when on their own territory. It takes a special owner to provide essential socialization and training in order to trust their common door with outsiders. Max is not only phenomenal with me and the cameraman, but this was his first time alone with strangers. Once again, a round of applause for Max's owner. I sprayed him down in spring rain cologne, and after six hours, this dog was finally finished. He didn't need a nail trim or a paw pad shave, because his owner already manages that. His before and after really shows you how dirty he was. If you liked this video, please don't forget to hit that subscribe or follow button. Thank you all so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed the magical Max.