Hey Margo, I know what you mean. There are a few csw with long hair, like some people say, they look like Collie. These dogs I do not mean. There are of course a few who have "open" coat, but these you find in germany, poland, czech, slow, hungary, everywhere. I meant the csw in italy who have thick and long coat - not long like Collie, but like wolf. And there are more than in other countries!
For these good examples, you can not compare Dacota with Emba. Dacota has thick coat and I believe you can not even see the skin if you try to watch. This is like Myla has too. But Emba has wolfish coat, thick and long - I repeat, not Collie long. She got all the "wolf" genes, which are needed.
That Malamute and Siberian Huskys shed like wolves is very easy, because they have still wolf genes in them, like Prof. Dr. Robert Wayne from the University of California from Los Angles published this april. And that is for example why Basenji get only once a year in heat like wolves due, because they have wolf gene in them too, like Saluki and Chow Chow. One part of wolf genes is more for the coat (Mala, Husk) and the other for example the heat circle (Basenji, Saluki). Again, I do not talk about exceptions but about the average dogs from the mentioned breeds.
Christian
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