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http://picasaweb.google.com/melinda.shore/CoatBlow -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Melinda Shore wrote:
[] http://picasaweb.google.com/melinda.shore/CoatBlow Wow! Now Jack, he's just saving it all up for next summer. Here's what I don't get about blowing coat: why don't they blow it all in the spring, so that they can get through the summer more comfortably? FurPaw -- The plural of anecdote is not proof. To reply, unleash the dog. |
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FurPaw wrote: Wow! Now Jack, he's just saving it all up for next summer. He had his first puppy coat blow last month and it was small and over with quickly. By next summer he's going to have undercoat exploding off him like his aunties. Here's what I don't get about blowing coat: why don't they blow it all in the spring, so that they can get through the summer more comfortably? I have absolutely no idea what triggers coat blows. Well, that's not exactly true - they blow coat when fresh undercoat starts coming in. But I don't know what triggers the undercoat growth. With horses it's pretty clear but the dogs seem to be kind of random. We had a very hot week about a month ago and that may have set them off, but I don't know. They'll do it again in the fall or early winter, probably. This is the first time I've had so many blow coat at the same time - usually it's serial coat blowing, which lacks the intensity of what's going on at the moment but just goes on and on and on and on and on. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Melinda Shore wrote:
[] http://picasaweb.google.com/melinda.shore/CoatBlow Wow. Just, *wow*. I can't imagine dealing with that x8. Just one, though? Their coats are short enough and the blowing hummense enough that it might be weirdly rewarding to groom *a* Sibe. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther) |
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Shelly wrote: Wow. Just, *wow*. I can't imagine dealing with that x8. Just one, though? Their coats are short enough and the blowing hummense enough that it might be weirdly rewarding to groom *a* Sibe. If you can stay on top of it (and in some cases you really can't [I'm looking at you, Emmett, Saber, and Cinder]) you get these dogs with the oddly sculpted but somehow attractive coats. Sort of along the lines of Cinder's butt at the time the photo was taken. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Melinda Shore wrote:
If you can stay on top of it (and in some cases you really can't [I'm looking at you, Emmett, Saber, and Cinder]) you get these dogs with the oddly sculpted but somehow attractive coats. This strikes me as something that mushers could turn into an off-season competition. Sort of along the lines of Cinder's butt at the time the photo was taken. The butthawk is definitely my, um, favorite. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther) |
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On 2008-07-07 10:41:35 -0400, Shelly said:
The butthawk is definitely my, um, favorite. It has that fashionable pelt quality to it... |
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Shelly wrote: The butthawk is definitely my, um, favorite. I should probably try to get a photo of Emmett's buttmullet. It's a veritable universe of butt-dos here in scenic Enfield. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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