Short coat defect

[Silvester]

I´m sorry again ,but the dog "Dacota" is looking on the "winter -picture" like the others in summer coat...

Originally poted by "Dacota":
"Maybe the photos doesn't show how it really is ..."

That might be - why you don´t make public here some more - and may be better - photos ?

[Dacota]

Well, I have not so much time to search in 6000 photos
I hope, you see this now,
here in winter coat:






and now with summer coat:





If you aren't agree, you must believe me or you have to come to visit me in wintertime

[Silvester]

Hey "Dacota"!

Thank`s for sending so quickly more photos first of all ! - You really have 6000 pictures of your dog ? Whaooo...I´m impressed!

Ok, on your new pictures difference can be seen better than in the first two ones, that´s right. It´s thick coat, but not very long.

Your dog has not so LONG winter coat like Emba or the dog of "GalomyOak" - and this might be caused by the reason you wrote in your first posting.( Not sleeping outside in winter time.)

But may be it´s caused also by genetics - just like what Margo has told before, it´s my experience too.
Some dogs get long AND thick hair in winter, others only thick but not long (or longER ). And some have completely lacked the ability to get a warm "winter-jacket"... but that´s more an exception for wolfdogs i think.

At last i want to tell you thank you for invitation and that of course i`d like to visit you in winter , if it´s not too far away from my place
- so where are you living exactly ? ( You can send me pm if you like .)

Bye- bye, see you

Silvester

[Dacota]

Originally Posted by Silvester

It´s thick coat, but not very long.

Yeah, that's right Well, I think I have maybe more than 6000 photos, because I make each year about 2000 photos from my dogs With a good camera, it makes very fun. (beside Dacota I have 2 other dogs )
So, it's not a secret where I live Exactly in the north from Berlin (part of Brandenburg). But - are you only talking English or maybe German, too?

[Silvester]

Good morning "Dakota"....

sure I´m speaking German also - I will send you pm in the afternoon, now i have to work.

See you , Silvester

[Vaiva]

Nice discussion
I am also interested, whan do your dogs shed the most?
Brukne lives inside and preferes sleeping in bed , but still has big difference between winter and summer coat. The strange thing is, that her coat usually looks best around... March. And she sheds hardest around August. At the moment she looks worse than these homeless dogs on the adds of animal shelters In August I was starting to think, whether I should keep vacum-cleaning the floor, or it is better to leave it as it is and wait for a natural felt carpet to form...

[Rona]

Originally Posted by Vaiva

I am also interested, whan do your dogs shed the most?
Brukne lives inside and preferes sleeping in bed , but still has big difference between winter and summer coat. The strange thing is, that her coat usually looks best around... March. And she sheds hardest around August. At the moment she looks worse than these homeless dogs on the adds of animal shelters In August I was starting to think, whether I should keep vacum-cleaning the floor, or it is better to leave it as it is and wait for a natural felt carpet to form...

This was exactly our experience with Tina and now with Lorka. She lives indoors, too. In January/February she was almost bald, had the thickest coat around April/May (with a nice collar) and is now finishing heavy shredding. I'm aware that by spending around 3 hrs per day in the cold weather she will never get as thick fur as dogs living outdoors.

But what matters more, in my opinion, is the the quality of the coat: she has hair of various length and quality, she never gets really wet in rain or snow (i.e. her undercoat is always dry and really dense in the 'winter edition'), I don't know how to call it technically, but the coat seems to clean itself. Unless she uses the "perfumes" we don't need to wash her at all, occassional brushing is enough to keep the fur in good condition.