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The quality of a coat is more than dense and long. It is the quality of the hairs itself.
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That's right. It is another important thing when we talk about coat. I wrote about lengt but I forgot to write about quality. Wolfdogs should have "goat's coat" - I don't know how it is called in English but the topcoat must be tough and rough (like goats or terriers). Only such hair dry out fast, protect the dog and is also easy to clean (it cleans without human help).
I saw wolfdogs which have soft coat - also many longhairded dogs have incorrect coat. It is easy to control - one touch is enough. It is a pitty any few judges (and breeders) pay attention to it....
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Why is there a rubric on Coat . Every dog is classified as shor-coated even if the leangth varies a lot?
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It is the tradition - every dog is short-haired even if there are huge differences. But also every dog is wolfsgrey even if there is huge difference between CzWs - some are grey-white other almost brown... It is written so in the pedigree.
Sure there is possiblity to make some differences. But how to make it? We have to measure the long of hair. And write there cm...?
We had the same problem with colour - we are working to change this option in our database (it will be finished soon) but still it will be pretty hard to say more about the colour because the dog change it during the year and it also depends of the food and on age. So we can only establish the basic variations. But it is imposible to establish something more (f.e. the shade)...