Which Half is Long Coated? - Page 2

Rexy,

Is that your "long coated" male on your avatar? If so, in that photo he looks like he could be a long coat, mainly because of his mane. Your dog's fur looks VERY similar to my dog's, except my girl has ear tufts and feathers in between her toes.  Long coats do not always have ear tufts and feathers. There is someone else on the board who has a long coat who does not have ear tufts or feathers in between the toes, but the dog is definitely a long coat. Sometimes pictures can be very deceiving, but I think your boy looks like a long coat.  Char

As for the ad, I am sure they mean the pups are "coats", but the hair isn't super long, more on the "plushy" side, for lack of a better explanation.  Plush may or may not be a proper term (of course that is a very controversial issue), but it helps for descriptive purposes.

Starrchar,
That's him on my avatar and the other pics I have posted. He is classified as a long coat but doesn't have ear tufts and feathers either. He is a good example of what someone could describe as a "half longcoat" from a visual perspective although not relevant to the breed standards. He is the "shortest haired" longcoat that I have seen where in a humorous sense we say that his coat just crossed the line into non compliance lol!!!.

What would you all class this dog as ????
Ive always been told she was a semi long coat . 

Kacha35.    Long coat.

Seems part of the difficulty in agreeing if a dog is longcoated or not is whether the owner of the dog wants it to be longcoat or not.  The dog with the correct coat simply does not have fringes at the base of the ears.  If the dog has fringes, it is a longcoat, whatever the length of the rest of its coat.  Anything else is just a matter of degree and what term you choose to apply to it.

Margaret N-J

I dont really mind lol .
She's a cracker and we all love her so it makes no difference to us .

It's clear she is a loved and well cared for girl Kacha35, she looks immaculate and the gloss on her coat is like a mirror.  You have every right to be proud of her.

Margaret N-J

The father of the pups in question is stock-coated, but has thrown a long-coat son:
www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/536420.html so he is obviously recessive for the longcoat gene.

The mother is not in the database.


Kacha, I agree about the fringes on the ears. Your dog has them, so I'd say 'longcoat', even though your dog doesn't have the long 'bloomers' at the back of the thighs which are typical of longcoats.

My female stock coated showline grows a long fringe on her belly in winter, like your dog, but, interestingly enough, the rest of her body is somewhat lacking in coat. She could definitely use more bulk to her coat!  Someone once commented the belly fringe was a sign she's recessive for the long coat gene, but I don't agree. I've traced he pedigree back at least 7 generations, and there are no longcoats anywhere in her ancestry.