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Offline tracyg

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puppy coat
« on: October 26, 2015, 06:56:51 AM »
Hi I have a 6 moth old blue roan show cocker and although his coat has grown a bit it doesn't seem to be as long as all the others I have seen on here just wondered why thanks

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2015, 07:55:29 AM »
All puppies are different much like humans, they develop at different rates. We met another cocker at training the same age as ours and the difference was amazing. It is nothing to worry about and I am sure that you will notice differences soon enough. 

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2015, 08:16:05 AM »
Thank you there is a picture of him I put on this morning title moody Stan

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2015, 08:25:23 AM »
Stan looks beautiful and his coat looks excellent. You may expect the coat to enter a rather untidy stage before the puppy coat comes out, but if you want him to retain a nice flat coat resist any temptation to have him clipped. Brushing, combing, and maybe a little scissor trimming is the way to go. Once clipped the coat may change and grow back thicker and woollier which would then require regular clipping.

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2015, 09:30:46 AM »
Stan looks lovely and silky smooth. Dylan at nearly five months looks like a motheaten boar piglet, his coat is in Stripes down his back, with a parting in the middle, can,t wait for it to start to loosen  :005:

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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2015, 10:10:21 AM »
Stan looks lovely, definitely not moody! Be grateful you don't have a mammoth like Pip!

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2015, 11:11:57 AM »
Stan looks lovely, he has a fine silky coat, most at that age are woolly mammoths, Riley was for sure.

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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2015, 11:12:51 AM »
Stan looks lovely, definitely not moody! Be grateful you don't have a mammoth like Pip!



Pip is beautiful , coat is too.

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2015, 07:33:11 PM »
She is stunning

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2015, 07:50:56 AM »
Could you post a picture of Dylan please thanks

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2015, 12:34:30 PM »
As others have said, they all get their adult coats at different ages. Some will have thicker 'hair' than others and will be able to have a longer coat; they are all different.

Also, his puppy coat will eventually grow long and silky. It'll be ready to come out when it's ready...

This was Charlie as a 5/6 month old puppy:

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2015, 01:27:38 PM »
Wow, Charlie is a stunner!

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2015, 07:30:28 AM »
He is beautiful x

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2015, 10:29:40 AM »
Here's a quick pic of Dylan to show his current coat.

At eight weeks he was white with black patches and a white blaze on his face, typical blue roan. He got,darker and darker until he was pratically black and I thought my lovely blue roan had disappeared  :-\. He's twenty weeks now, and white is beginning to reappear again. The black fur must be more vigorous than the white, it is longer. It,s growing at all sorts of weird angles and looks quite stripey, like a little wild board piglet. He has a distinct parting down his back, not sure if you can see it in the photo. He,s lost his whiskers, has only two now  :005:, and is teething, poor soul. It,s amazing how much the colour of his coat changed, you can see him at eight weeks in my intro post. I wonder how he will end up??????

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Re: puppy coat
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2015, 01:09:08 PM »
He'll lighten up as his adult coat comes in, the black is thicker so they always look darker. Jane57s Riley when he was a pup went really dark, almost black, then lightened as his adult coat came in. She might have some photos to show you.
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