Oscar has always been a bit fluffy, as shown in this baby photo next to his sisters (he's the grey one on the right).


i thought when he grows up, his fur will become shorter and more even like other huskies, but even at 9.5 years old, his fur looks like this (and this is after a round of shedding after a bath this weekend):


it's not quite wooly, but it's also not the typical husky fur i see, especially here in california. just about every person always asks me if he's a malamute, and when i tell them he's a siberian husky, they comment on how fluffy he is and ask if he's still a puppy.

both his parents were show dogs, so i know he's definitely a full sib husky, but i was wondering if there's a way to describe his fur, so that i can tell people who ask about it. anyone?

another photo to show how oddly fluffy his outer coat looks:

Not sure how official it is but we have taken to calling it a plush coat. We have a few dogs on the forum with the same extra fluff on them.

Yep. Plush coat. I also have a boy who expresses a plush coat.

And I have "Plush squared"  

ah OK. nice to see other plushy huskies! oddly, Oscar has pretty much no undercoat on his tail, so his tail always looks thin and frizzy

I have two with plush coats.

The Malamute remark probly has more to do with Oscars brown eyes, some people just don't get that huskies can have brown eyes too, and that they're not a "mix" if they do. I had one lady tell me that Kohdi must be a mix cuz one of his eyes is blue and brown and that if he was pure husky, his eyes would just be blue.