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Originally Posted by dgarza49  I am beginning to think I also have a red legged Yorkie. She looked normal for a Yorkie puppy, but when she started getting a little over 3 mos. she started loosing hair on her legs really everywhere. I don't remember this happening with a previous Yorkie puppy I had. Hair is coming back in but it isn't getting long on the ears, and it looks like it isn't growing none to fast on the rest of her body either. Her legs has new growth, but I don't think it is going to be long. Can anyone tell me if parents would look like the puppy? The parents didn't seem to look like what she is looking like now. I really wanted one with long hair, but couldn't give her up now! |
Could you post a picture of your dog? You can usually tell by looking if you know what to look for. One thing that I notice that is different between my correct coated dog and my Red-Leg is that on the Red-Leg, her hair on the edges of her ears never needs trimming. It just does not grow at all. She turned out to look exactly like her dad. She had a litter of pups before I got her fixed, and all but one of them were in between a correct coat and her Red-Leg coat. Their fur was thicker than their mom's fur, but not as long and silky as the Dad's. One tiny boy had a thick, gorgeous, correct coat. It felt cool to the touch when you would touch him. There was an obvious difference between his coat and his litter mates.
Some of the breeders on this site will comment, but I'm pretty sure that a pup can throw back to a grandparent dog, or even further back in the pedigree, even if both parents had correct coats. There are other causes of hair loss, so the hair loss could be from some other reason. My girl did not start getting the "breakage" on her coat until she was a little over a year old. She had much more hair as a youngster.