22/08/2026
Handstripping vs Clipping 🐶✂️
After TONS and TONS of comments on our viral video of Ruby being handstripped, we thought we’d show you the difference between Ruby’s Border Terrier coat and Betty’s clipped coat 👀
🖐️ Ruby’s handstripped coat keeps its natural colour, texture and water-resistant properties. It maintains the harsh, weatherproof outer coat that a Border Terrier is naturally meant to have.
✂️ Betty’s clipped coat is much softer, duller and loses much of that natural weatherproof quality because the coat is cut rather than having the dead outer coat removed.
And no, Ruby isn’t having her fur “ripped out”! 😂 Handstripping removes the dead outer coat when it’s ready to come out, leaving the healthy coat underneath.
Hopefully this helps explain why handstripping is so important for maintaining a Border Terrier’s traditional coat! 🐾❤️