[gemy]

Pure Paws line is available in the UK (I think). Not a bad line. Vellus I thought was international too. Now many of the expensive shampoos come in concentrated forms and you are meant to dilute them for your dog. Say 1-10 that is one ounce of shampoo to 10 ounces of water.

If you have hard water in your region *and pardon my language* but it is abeetch on the coat especially a growing puppy coat. But Yorkies can look like a holy mess 10 minutes after brushing out. One key is to sigh and just say hey 10 minutes once a day is not too bad - if you do this daily you should not get many if any *nasty* tangles or matts.

Now you must rinse then rinse then rinse some more to make sure all shampoo is out of the coat. Next leave a conditioner in for 10 minutes I wrap my Yorkie and hold him in a heated towel while this happens. Anymore than once a wk washing is too much unless something unusual has happened. Then rinse almost all but not all of the conditioner. Brush n blowdry the coat on cool air.

Water lots of it for drinking - I have water container in his crate and one always full in the kitchen. Food that is good for him etc. Proper exercise all these go into the making of an extremely glossy coat that is a hallmark of the proper Yorkie silk coat - how-ever some coats are not pure silk more cottoney etc and you won;t get that hallmark shine of the Yorkies show coat.

I like most of the products mentioned earlier although I have never used show handler on my Yorkies although I do know of some exhibitors that do.