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andriusha Newborn
Join date : 2012-08-05 Location : Canada
| Subject: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:15 pm | |
| My Cleo is barely 3 months and it looks like she's already blowing her coat, is this normal?? |
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LifeInSnowMotion Teenager
Join date : 2012-05-14 Location : Raleigh, NC
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:47 pm | |
| I started a thread just like this when Snow was about 3 months. And it's a little early for them to be blowing yet. It may be the brush you used which was what I was doing that was just sorta pulling it out. So I say no probably not. But I'm sure someone else can chime in. |
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andriusha Newborn
Join date : 2012-08-05 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:59 pm | |
| I've used the brushes I'm using now before as well but it didn't pull her hair out... But if we pet her a bunch of hair comes off in our hands, and the house is COVERED with her hair! She was groomed about a week earlier wasn't much hair then... It was when we noticed all the hair on our hands that we thought of brushing her.. |
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dbingham12 Teenager
Join date : 2012-06-07 Location : Cheyenne, Wyoming
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:05 pm | |
| I'm not sure how much age has to do with shedding. Everyone keeps saying this is "too young" to blow a coat. But I always thought dogs would shed to loose their winter coat before summer and then to lose their summer coat and grow in a thicker winter coat before winter. So unless I am missing something. . . I don't see why it would be abnormal, given the time of year, for even a young husky to blow a coat.
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LifeInSnowMotion Teenager
Join date : 2012-05-14 Location : Raleigh, NC
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:09 pm | |
| I think shedding and blowing cOat are different. Not sure on that though |
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dbingham12 Teenager
Join date : 2012-06-07 Location : Cheyenne, Wyoming
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:14 pm | |
| My understanding is that blowing is the shedding of the thick undercoat. But again this should be seasonal!. Shedding is just a loss of fur in general. But that furball mess in the OP looks a lot like blowing a coat to me (just based on other photo's I have seen on here!) |
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LifeInSnowMotion Teenager
Join date : 2012-05-14 Location : Raleigh, NC
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:17 pm | |
| Yea, Snow's pic looked like yours but she wasn't blowing her coat. I don't know I'm not really experienced as she's my first husky. Just my |
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andriusha Newborn
Join date : 2012-08-05 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:51 pm | |
| - dbingham12 wrote:
- I'm not sure how much age has to do with shedding. Everyone keeps saying this is "too young" to blow a coat. But I always thought dogs would shed to loose their winter coat before summer and then to lose their summer coat and grow in a thicker winter coat before winter. So unless I am missing something. . . I don't see why it would be abnormal, given the time of year, for even a young husky to blow a coat.
When you put it that way, it does make sense! I guess it might be normal since they blow their coats before winter/summer... I'm just confused because so far everyone I talked to said huskies start to blow their coats at around 6 months of age.. |
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paleobones Teenager
Join date : 2012-01-11 Location : Illinois
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:54 pm | |
| Raven is 10 months and hasn't blown her coat yet. I would think at 3 mnths Cleo still has her puppy coat. |
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Niraya Breeding Subject Moderator
Join date : 2011-08-30 Location : Easton, Pennsylvania
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:51 pm | |
| A three month old should not be blowing coat.
The adult coat should start coming in around 6-8 months and a "puppy blow" follows after - though I do know that some Siberians do not have a full blow until 2 years of age. _________________ |
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LifeInSnowMotion Teenager
Join date : 2012-05-14 Location : Raleigh, NC
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:01 pm | |
| Oh to be the lucky owner of a dog like that!! |
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Niraya Breeding Subject Moderator
Join date : 2011-08-30 Location : Easton, Pennsylvania
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:02 pm | |
| A dog like what, Robyn? O.o _________________ |
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LifeInSnowMotion Teenager
Join date : 2012-05-14 Location : Raleigh, NC
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:03 pm | |
| - Niraya wrote:
- I do know that some Siberians do not have a full blow until 2 years of age.
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Niraya Breeding Subject Moderator
Join date : 2011-08-30 Location : Easton, Pennsylvania
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:07 pm | |
| Haha! You could take Bella - she is a non-shedding husky. And if you don't believe me you can ask Megan. Bet you'd rather have one of them! _________________ |
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LifeInSnowMotion Teenager
Join date : 2012-05-14 Location : Raleigh, NC
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:08 pm | |
| I wouldn't tempt me. I know sorta where you live. Sorta.... |
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Niraya Breeding Subject Moderator
Join date : 2011-08-30 Location : Easton, Pennsylvania
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:09 pm | |
| Easton only has about 40,000 people wouldn't be too terribly hard to find me. Though - you'd have a harder time trying to get her She is not exactly strange people friendly like most Siberians. _________________ |
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hypers987 Senior
Join date : 2011-08-25 Location : Santa Cruz, California
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:35 pm | |
| Thought I'd chime in and say the Kale's official "blow" was when he was a year and a half. |
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andriusha Newborn
Join date : 2012-08-05 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Blowing coat the first time Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:39 pm | |
| It seems Cleo's just making space for more fur! If I part her undercoat, I can see little strand of grey hair all over, I guess she'll turn grey! |
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