i loved my girls long but its just not practical for us, the girls get caught up to easily in the shrubbery, and Inca gets hot to quick on long walks.
also when Inca was younger, she was not long past a year. we kept her coat long and i was keeping on top of it.
but on one of the walks, she came out of the bushes screaming but we couldn't work out what was wrong with her until one of the women we were walking with saw the wasps, it turned out she had run through a wasps nest and because she had the long coat we couldn't see them as they had burrowed right under the fur.
she just collapsed infrount of us, and one of the guys scooped her up and ran off the path and slid down the hill to dunk her in the water to drown the wasps. she went into complete shock and our trainer John carried her all the way back to the car, so we could take her to the vets. as she is a solid dog so is heavy and she was just a dead weight and the watter made her heavier
luckily she wasn't allergic but the emergency vet gave her lots of inactions for pain, inflammation etc.
anyway i couldn't brush her properly for a week or so because she had bee stung all over he body and days later we were still picking bits of wasp out of her coat.
that is one of the reason why i don't think i would go back to having the girls long. at least now i could brush most of them off, where as then we couldn't even see them, so glad we were not on our own when it happened as i wouldn't have had a clue what to do..
