Short coat defect

[Rona]

Originally Posted by Vicky

Do you and Vaiva possibly live in very climate controlled environments? If you keep it nice and toasty inside during winter and nice and cool inside during summer, that could account for the "backwards" coats. I know a few years back, we must have kept it really warm in our apartment, because Buddy (our husky) had SUCH a thin coat that winter that he became a huge baby about going out when it was super cold! haha

Well, we live in an old house and can control the temperature ourselves but I don't see much sense in suffering from the cold just to keep my dog beautiful What I found strange was that even though my csv was almost "naked" in January, she loved spending time outdoors in -25 C. She was running a lot and playing with other dogs (to keep warm?) but neither showed any signs of being cold nor wanted to go back home .

Also this coat makes it difficult to wash out all the smelly things out of it

Exactly!!!! A few weeks ago she gave herself a 'beauty bath' in something that looked like remains of wolves' feast. When she came running my husband joked that we could easily win a dogtrailing competition. Despite our efforts the echo of this smell still crops up from time to time

[Silvester]

Originally posted by "hanninadina":
"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."

Yeah,that´s right - and this was ONE reason why i choosed her as the mother and one puppy of her last litter ( kennel of Carlos Antonio - Lupus Ibericus )for becoming my new Csw !

Greetings from Silvester