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Originally Posted by ChibiLuv  Yay for cotton coats! It's great to see so many of them. When I got Molli as a puppy I had no idea her coat was diffrent, from what I gathered I don't think you can really tell if they are a cotton coat until after 6 months old because before then they still have a puppy coat which is often fluffier than normal. |
So far I am two for two. I knew Pixie was going to be a silk coat, and I was pretty certain that Sabre was going to be a cotton coat even as babies. The silk coat babies as I have seen actually have a greasy look to their fur, and the cotton coats don't.
I am pretty sure I'm going to be wrong eventually, so far I have only been right by the luck of the draw, lol.
Basically, I studied pictures of puppies from reputable breeders, and I studied pictures of puppies from.. well.. less than reputable breeders, lol. Aside from half the puppies from the latter looking like they were mixed seven ways from Sunday, their pups always were more fluffy and more dull looking than the puppies of the former. The exception usually being when the pet bred puppies were AKC registered, though some of them were cotton coats too.
Without exception, show breeders had puppies that looked like they had greasy fur, especially on their face, above their eyes.
I don't have great pictures to illustrate, but below are Pixie and Sabre at about the same age.