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My Marley had longer hair compared to her sister, Izzy, who's hair had been butchered short short around 12 weeks old because the previous owners/breeders didn't want to bother grooming so much. I adopted Izzy at about 20 weeks old. When I took them to the groomers I asked them not to take too much length off of Marley because we wanted to let their hair get long, and she said it was pretty pointless to bother until they grow out of their puppy hair and into their adult coat. And that putting Marley' s hair up in clips or baby rubber bands at this stage would only result in the hair breaking off. That I should just trim in a puppy cut for now until this magical transformation in coats takes place...lol. Is this true or am I being led astray? Izzy's hair is finally starting to grow out longer, and when I bathe her ( mind you she loves water and if I take a shower she will pull herself up into the tub with me all determined) which generally happens about two times a week on purpose and more often if she has her way about it) and condition (diluted) her, and blow dry her without brushing at all, her hair falls straight and uniform on her back , but curls up a bit on her lower legs and feet. When she looks ragged and kind of oily, if she shakes herself real good her hair goes back to looking gorgeous and straight. It doesn't mat so far. It's soft but not exactly silken feeling, but not cottony either. She is going on 8 months now. I'll try and post pics but I'm posting from an iPad so file might be too big. There's pics on my page. Probably need new ones though. Don't know which coat she has . I've asked her but she doesn't know either. Lol