If you can manage 30 minutes a week to groom and inspect your Great Pyrenees, you should have no trouble maintaining that beautiful coat and a healthy pet.
Regular grooming and inspection at least once a week are necessary for your Pyr — from puppyhood throughout his life.
If you’ve looked at a big, beautiful Pyr and thought what a chore it must be to keep that white coat looking lovely, rest assured it is not that difficult. The Great Pyrenees is one of the easiest of all breeds to maintain properly because he has been endowed with a coat which is self-cleaning, tangle and mat resistant. It may sound like one of the new miracle fabrics. It’s not. It is an old miracle. That coat really does shed dirt, really does clean itself!
The Pyrenees coat is deceptive. The texture of the outer hair is coarse. Underneath is another coat, soft and wooly
The once-a-week grooming/inspection session will suffice in most cases to keep the dog looking in top form. It won’t hurt to run a wire card brush across the coat every other day to pick up any loose hairs, but too frequent brushing may break off hair ends.
The weekly grooming and inspection will provide an opportunity for you to check the dog’s ears, eyes, mouth, body and feet for possible problems, of which you should have none if you are consistent in your grooming.
To learn more on how to groom a Great Pyrenees, follow this link to the Great Pyrenees Club of America.
