I thought you might be interested in before and after pictures of my cocker spaniel, Meg. She was three years old when I got her and had been clipped all of her life. Her coat was pale, curly and full of undercoat. I've never had a long coated dog before, so never groomed in my life! I was determined that she would look like a cocker, not some indiscriminate breed, so set about stripping the coat with the mars coat king and growing her coat out. Karen