Coat care, brushing, shedding, bathing, tools and maintenance.

Grooming

The Aussie double coat rewards a routine. Brushing, bathing, seasonal shedding and the tools worth keeping in the grooming bin.

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The cornerstone guide

The full overview of this topic. Every other article in this section builds on it.

Double-coat care that actually fits a weekly routine — brushing, bathing, shedding season and the tools that matter.

Guides

Rakes, slickers, pin brushes and combs — what each tool does on a double coat, and the small kit that covers everything.

A realistic brushing schedule for a double coat — weekly baseline, coat-blow reality, and how to recover after a lapse.

What a double coat actually does, why shaving rarely helps with heat, and the alternatives that do.

Coat blow, de-shedding routines and a household cleanup system that keeps up with a shedding Aussie.

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