Now that Summer is over, I would love to try and aid Bella's coat in restoring it's true liver color. For the most part, it has returned, but the top of her head that was the most sunbleached is still recovering from being mostly red all summer. Is there anything I can do to help speed up the process?

I have seen kelp in the food suggested on here. I already add a little olive oil to one feeding per day. Is the kelp simply for the fish oil. Could I just add a fish oil capsule (meant for dogs) in her food?

For next summer, are there any sprays that help prevent bleaching? I know from my horse days, things like that exist...and may even carry over as safe to use on dogs? I didn't think I cared about the bleaching, but her true liver color is so nice I really don't want her to bleach next summer like I allowed this summer.

You could always relocate over here if you want to avoid sun-bleaching  Only joking - Kintra turned ginger during the summer  I assume that as with human hair the salt sea water maybe helps the bleaching a little  I do know of an owner of a cocker who used human hair-protector (think it was friz-ease?!?)spray to prevent bleaching but i wouldnt recommend it for a dog  - probably full of chemicals that even WE shouldnt use.

When we purchased our two, they were mostly outdoor, and their coats were lighter.....much lighter, and then when they came to live with us, they turned dark brown.   However, I think during July/August or so, I noticed that Maybrie had dark areas, especially down her spine, but that the rest of her was turning light again.  I freaked out, because her coat was so splotchy and not at all like it had grown to be.  I KNEW the sun wasn't bleaching it because they weren't out a lot.   I asked my breeder, and even went back to my breeder to find out what was going on.  She said they shed (I forget if she said once or twice a year) and she told me how to speed up the shedding by  just gently pulling at the hair, like you would pull on your own eyebrow hair.  I started doing that, and the stubborn lighter areas went away!  Now, she is the dark liver color again.    Her beautiful color will come back.  It took Maybrie's coat a ful 3 or 4 months to fully shed and look normal again.  During those few months though, she looked like she had some sort of nutrient deficiency.  At first I thought it was the doggie conditioner we were using!  

For anyone interested, I grabbed a couple of shedding blocks that our equine store had. I cannot believe I didn't do this ages ago. After using it on her head and back-end just twice today I have removed probably 50% of the sunbleached hair. I think if I do this daily within a week she should be free of most of the orange that I mistakenly allowed to take over her lovely liver color this past Summer. She also LOVES it. I was worried it would feel a bit too rough on her head for her, but she goes into an absolute trance while I use it. Especially on her back-end near her tail lol. Works great. Her head coloring is already drastically better than the photos I just posted in another topic.