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Is my husky a wooly?

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Lily

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Barked: Mon Sep 17, '12 2:37pm PST


	I got Lily from a pet store that only works with certain breeders. Now, we got her at 8 weeks old, she had literally just been driven from the breeder to the store. She was extremely fluffy...and I figured it was due to the fact that she was just a tiny baby. Here is an example http://tinypic.com/r/30jr12q/6 Here she is at 1 years old http://tinypic.com/r/wqvew6/6 http://tinypic.com/r/4l0v1u/ 6 You can see she is VERY fluffy but I don't think as fluffy as a wooly... I see other Huskies who have that short coat and I just wonder why she is long haired. Don't get me wrong, I love her to bits and pieces and don't mind the fluff at all- it just gets really annoying when another husky owner will come up to me with their 6 year old short haired husky and tell me to my face that my dog is not a Siberian Husky based on the way she looks (yes, that was an actual conversation at the dog park recently).

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Mishka &- Luna

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Barked: Wed Sep 19, '12 9:01am PST


	It saddens me on how other husky owners don't know the husky breed and how their are short coated and wooly coated Siberians. That's like someone told me that my Siberian husky Luna isn't pure bred because she's bi-eyed. I guess ppl just think that ALL siberians have blue eyes. Majority of them do have two blue eyes instead of brown or bi-eyed but just because you see a husky with two brown eyes or one blue eye and one brown eye or even one of their eyes have two colors in them doesn't make them a mix. As for your question, in my opinion I think she is a wooly coat. Here are pics of my Siberian from the day she was 3 days old to this day. (There is a long story of why I got Luna at 3 weeks old. Bottom line she was better off with me than the person I got her from) Luna - 3 weeks old Luna - 2 months and 21 days old Luna - 3 months and 16 days Luna - 8 months Luna still has a thick coat but it's still considered a short coat. Btw your Sibe is gorgeous

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Ember FDX

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Barked: Mon Sep 24, '12 10:03am PST


	She is wooly. Wooly-coated Sibes are still Sibes, but they do fall outside the AKC standard for the breed. A wooly coat collects snow and ice and hinders a dog's ability to do it's job, so breeders should be watching their lines to make sure that trait doesn't show up. That said, there are long-hair genes in many breeds (including Mastiffs, Weimerainers, Rottweilers and more) that show up from time to time regardless of how careful the breeder is. It isn't always a mark of a sub-par breeder, nor does it mean the dog itself is sub-par (you just can't show it). As a family dog, the only difference is the amount of grooming you'll need to do. When breeders have dog after dog coming out wooly, are actively breeding for wooly coats and/or presenting them as rare... Then you're looking at a problem.