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03-30-2009, 07:55 PM | #1 |
♥Love My Snuggle Bugs♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Missouri
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| Thin Coat as Puppy Means Thick Silky Coat as Adult Ok I went to this site about Yorkie coats last night and it said usually if a yorkie has a thinner coat as a puppy it will be thick and silky as an adult. Do any of you have any experience with this? Laddy's hair seems to be a little thinner than when we got him at 9 weeks and he is now 5 months. I have trimmed it a couple times so I am not sure how long it would be. |
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03-30-2009, 08:05 PM | #2 |
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| I would like to see answers to this question.. my kandie had a thin coat and now at almost 4 she is so so thick... so could be true... anne |
03-30-2009, 08:13 PM | #3 |
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| Could you please post a picture of her then and one now for me to see? |
03-31-2009, 03:00 AM | #4 |
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| I got Both of my dogs when they were adults the 1st has very soft fur but it gets very thick & almost wavy & never gets to the long stage just "puffy". The 2nd dog has long hair but it literally feels like straw, it's just awful. I will just have her a week tomorrow & she has a groomer appt tomorrow, I was thinking of having her shaved she was a matted mess when I got her last week but I have brushed out most of the mats. I was hoping that if she gets shaved & bathed & conditioned on a weekly basis her fur will become softer. Any thoughts on this. MOMMY TO PRECIOUS & PRINCESS |
03-31-2009, 03:14 AM | #5 |
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| i can only tell mypersonal experience. When I got Ceeby, my first yorkie, his coat was so thin and so oily that he looked like he had been dipped in oil. I kept bathing him trying to get the "oil" out. he is four years old now and extremely silky coated. Not as thick as I would like but thick enough. |
03-31-2009, 03:48 AM | #6 |
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| Puppy coats are not always an indication of adult coats. Eye shine is more reliable in my experience. A green or blue eye shine in pictures is almost always a silk coat. Orange or red may indicate a soft coat. If as an adult your yorkies is soft and wavy it is probably a soft coat and will mat easily. Silk coats feel cool to the touch. Most puppies will lose the fuzzy coat as the adult coat comes in. Yorkies do not have fur. They have one hair per folicle just like humans. If the coat is dry and straw like try using a more moisturizing shampoo and a leave in conditioner. I have seen pups with thick puppy coats that did not have thick adult coats and viceversa. ruth |
03-31-2009, 03:59 AM | #7 | |
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bentley had really really thick puppy hair and he shed a ton and when his adult hair came in, it was sooo silky. he also never matts i only have to brush him (other than his facial hair) about once a week and there are never any tangles
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04-03-2009, 12:57 AM | #8 |
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| puppy to adult Hi can any one tell me how old the dog is when the coat changes from puppy to adult,as just had my first Yorkie she is 7 months old and coat very thin but lady i bought her from said hunny has not had fist season yet but after season her coat will change?any thought |
04-03-2009, 02:13 AM | #9 |
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| You do not want the coat to change too early. You should begin to see the coat "breaking blue" at the shoulders and along the topline. The closer to a year when it breaks the more likely they will hold their color as a adult. Also is the gold coming in on the head? Is it breaking to that almost white silvery color? The lighter the head and earlier the blue breaks, the lighter the dog will be as an adult. Most yorkies take almost two years to fully mature their coat |
04-03-2009, 02:45 AM | #10 |
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| Thanks for answering but i should have said my little girl is cross maltese/Yorkie so she is very light- golden/blond |
04-03-2009, 04:14 AM | #11 |
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| Sorry that I do not know how coat would mature in a mixed breed. You would not be able to tell with any reliability due to the mixing of the genes. |
04-03-2009, 05:41 AM | #12 |
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| Okay - With our breed it is one of the hardest to predict how they will be as an adult, even for us experts. You got the original exerpt (thinner coated yorkies = thicker coat as an adult) from the Gordon and Bennett's book, "The Complete Yorkshire Terrier." They are/were one of the the top kennels in the US, Wildweir Yorkshire Terriers. Most all of our yorkies here in US can be traced back to them. There are some yorkies that will have a thin coat as a pup and then have a thicker coat as an adult. Then there are yorkies with thin coats as a pup and never gain any amount of thickness in their coat as an adult - still thin. It is all based on genetics wheather a pup will have a nice silky coat of good quantity as an adult. You must not only look at the parents, but also the grandparents, and in some cases great-grandparents. The green eye shine, they say means silky, but not necessarily quantity or thickness of coat. If your pup has a brittle, terrier feel to their coat chancs are they will never grow a coat to the floor or have much of any coat. This coat may grow to the knees and then it stops. I like a somewhat in between thickness as a pup. Not too thin and not too thick. A thick coated yorkie will most of the time have a cotton or wooly coat as an adult. Check the leg hair, if the paw/leg hair has a lot of coat - it is usuallyand will be a cotton or wooly coat as an adult. Wooly coats will curl, especially when wet. When this coat is blown dried you will also see slight lines going across the coat hairs as you brush during blow drying. I hope this information has helped. There are also fine coated yorkies with not much silk to their texture and they will grow in length but not neccessary in thickness. You do not need to trim a puppy's coat. What one should do is research - get to know your lines (pedigrees) and study a ton of photos of yorkies when young and how they looked as an adult, this will give you some clue. The best is to see yorkies coat in person as a pup and the as an adult - see many yorkies and feel their coats. This is the best way to learn. Last edited by topknot; 04-03-2009 at 05:43 AM. |
04-03-2009, 05:45 AM | #13 |
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04-06-2009, 10:27 PM | #14 |
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| Thanks for your advise |
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