Carding Undercoat on the Hips of a Hand-Stripped Standard Schnauzer

Spring is a time when hand-stripped Schnauzers can really be shedding and for whatever reason, the harder coated dogs often have denser undercoat. This can make your Schnauzer's jacket look sparse and puffy, even when it isn't. Before you start picking too much at a sparse-seeming short jacket, get some undercoat out. It may save you putting holes in your nice growing-in topcoat. Carding out undercoat is best accomplished when the topcoat is short.
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[@annaz3785]

I don't have any layers on hips 😮 what to do in this situation?

[@dogsanddharma]

There's not much you can do in the moment, but going forward, make sure you are doing some work on the hips (and everywhere else) at least monthly, even if it's just some raking. That's the only way to make sure there is always coat coming in under the current top layer.