[WonderPup]

There's a method Curly, if you're dog has a simi short coat, (this doesn't hold true for a lot of show coats) you use the force dryer with the condenser cone on and in the high setting. To achieve a straight look you have to dry say the back leg completely before going onto the next leg. My stystem is to dry all four legs, then chest and one side, then butt and back and then the other side, neck, ears, and topknot. The trick is to not move from one section of hair until it is totaly bone dry. If you try and dry the whole dog at one time you get curls or at the very least fluffy waves.

I have no opinion on a what to use secreto for a dog in complete show coat. I would think the air force dryer would be a good option for you, especialy since you have two dogs, you're not showing Eli are you? Anyway what you might need is an arm that clips to the table and hold the nozzel of the dryer for you, that why you can line dry your show coat brushing with the flow of air in sections. I have one somewhere I know and I would send it to you, but dang if I know where it is. I hated it lol, but then I didn't have a real need for it at the time. I'll see if I can find it, or a picture of it on the net. I'm sure some place like pet edge would sell it though and I know it can't be expensive.

 

[WonderPup]

Yup, thats a photo of what I was talking about. I don't know what happened to the darn thing though. I'm stumped. Oh well LoL. Jenn, don't ask a handler about dryers if you can help it, ask the breeder instead if you can. Assuming the breeder shows of course. They have a greater interest in seeing you do well with a dog they bred than a pro handler does. I'm a little paranoid maybe but it's a lesson I've learned from experience. Just ask more than one handler if you have to go that route to make sure you're getting a good answer.


As for human dryers on dogs, be careful Roxy. When you're drying you hair you probably dont notice how warm the air comming out of the dryer really it, plus your scalp is more used to it since probably you've been blow drying your hair for a some years now right. Your dog isn't the same way. Dog's definitly notice the added heat, and you can really burn the skin if you aren't caredful.
A bather that worked for me a year ago stepped in dog poo outside and took her shoe off and washed it in the tub. She tried to dry it with a hair dyer that a client had brought by (clients donate weird things to us sometimes) it was a conair of some type.. anyway we got to talking she and I and before she was a little distacted. The blow dryer burned a hole through her shoe.... LoL.

 

[WonderPup]

I am not aware of any good ones that are Roxy. As for differences a forced air dryer, which is what is needed to get most poodles staight, blows air at high velocity. Rather than evaporating water in hair like a human dryer does they blow the water right off the hair, which also blows the hair straight. If the hair is straight when it is dried then it will remain straight when the dryer moves on to the next section of hair.

I am aware that Crazy Dog makes a dog dryer that looks like a human one, I think it even has a stand, I do not know much about it. It's marketed to pet owners, who would normaly use a reguaral hair dyer on their dogs. I would have to actualy use one in order to have much of an opinion about it but I would hope that it wouldn't blow heated air.

On another note, I am sooo jealous - I wish I could get away with only washing my hair weekly...

 

[WonderPup]

Brushing or combing the hair constantly as you dry is essential to getting it straight and fluffy and so is getting it completely dry down to the skin.

Guess that makes it almost a must to have a stand dryer or the arm that clips to your table and holds the dryer for you.