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Originally Posted by bjh  Just from the pictures I would say your adorable little boy has a cottony coat. The texture does not look like that of silk that would reflect light and feel cool to touch. Often dogs with cottony coats are dark as young dogs but at around 1 or 2 years they turn a blueish or dark gray color but it is what is referred to as a clerical gray. They do not follow the normal breaking pattens of a dog with a true silk coat. You are correct in your observation that some yorkies have the proper silky coat but they are more of a silvery blue which is also incorrect for show. Some yorkies also have coats that are refered to as woolly coat and some have modified silk (which I still don't understand). |
Thank you very much, he does look cottony in the photos, but normally he looks silkier. His coat seems to normally be somewhere between the two and gets silkier by the day. The shots were taken right after he got shaved down and he looked fuzzy for about 2 weeks, LOL.