Shikoku shedding again....
Well....Kekko is on the middle of his first real shedding....huhh. I have read the topics about the shikoku shedding heavily before, but pictures are not seen on the old topics - so I wanted to ask again, is this really normal??? I could not imagine its that bad. I mean he looses ALL his undercoat and there is only some really rough guard hair still on him - looks really horrible. You can almost see his skin, he looks like a sick dog. None of my huskies shed like that....although they do shed a lot of hair, but never be that naked. Kekko still has coat on the back and sides on some places....this makes it look even worse.
I brush him every day to make the coat change faster, but on some places it just won't come off
) How long it usually takes to get new coat on?
I brush him every day to make the coat change faster, but on some places it just won't come off
) How long it usually takes to get new coat on?
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Shousei is shedding his coat too, but it looks pretty even, besides some little spots. Now he's looking very skinny, but we cannot see his skin at any spot. Just missing the volume and softness. Is your snow gone? Otherwise Kekko would be pretty cold outside. Reno&Rico almost never shed all their hair, Reno more than Rico. Reno takes months to loose all, Rico does it in one month, but so much is coming out by then. Now, with the third one involved we will have an even longer period of loose hair all around us. I will try to take a photo of Shousei so you can compare with Kekko. Maybe you can post one too of him.
I think Shousei is still probably changing the puppy coat, so this might not be the real shedding yet. At least Kekko changed puppy coat with no massive shedding. And thats the funny thing, we have loads of snow and cold still, so I'm keeping Kekko in the house, as he is so naked. Strange he started to loose the coat like that almost in the middle of the cold winter. But they seem to have their internal clocks for that, one of my huskies starts shedding only in the end of July...until then he is all packed with his massive winter coat
It may also be known as "Puppy Uglies", since, well, you know why! lol
I found a picture of a shikoku youngster either beginnning this process, or ending it. either way, you can tell, by his rear end.
found it on a shikoku breeders website, in Holland.