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My dog, Wiener, sheds all over the place! My bratty sister told me I shed just as much as Wiener. Can that be?
Signed, Wondering


Dear Wondering:



Think your dog sheds a lot? Try you humans! Boy oh boy! You are constantly shedding SKIN! Your skin is made up of layers of living cells. As new layers of skin cells are being added, on the bottom old layers of cells die. When they do, they become thin and tough. They rise to the surface of your skin and flake or fall off like tiles being blown off by a rough wind.

As a result, you're shedding about 50,000 flakes of skin each and every minute and pounds of skin each and every year! And you know those dust bunnies hidding under your bed? Know one of their key ingredients? Skin Flakes!?!



Signed,

Wendell



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