@aprilsnowflakes Our guy just started shedding his puppy coat a couple weeks ago. It's not a tonne of hair if you keep up with it. Give him a quick brush for just a minute or two in the morning and at night and that'll keep most of it off your furniture. We have dark brown microsuede couches (not the smartest with dogs, I know), but there's barely any hair on them right now because of the brushing.
@aprilsnowflakes Also, they apparently do blow their coat once or twice per year depending on your climate, so we'll see what happens at that time. Our plan is to just keep up with the twice-daily brushing. We live in Vancouver BC so he should only blow his coat once, but you never know. It really depends on what you're used to; they shed more than a schnauzer or other coarse haired dog, but it's nothing even remotely close to a husky or malamute or other spitz-type dogs.
@bertuzzi4ladybing Seriously, TWICE in one day? My show Australian and all my Shetland Sheepdogs require nothing like that to look great. Seriously, is twice per day a misprint?
@jimquantic Sorry for the late reply, I don't check on too often! I was referring to brushing him twice a day while blowing his puppy coat just to keep the hair off the couch. That was back then, though. He doesn't shed much at all now since we live on the West Coast so the temperature doesn't fluctuate much (one coat all year).
@jimquantic And yeah, as far as brushing to keep his coat looking good, it requires zero maintenance at all. We just brush him whenever we brush our other dog which is a different breed that requires a lot of maintenance. Chopper always comes running over after we're done with the other dog because he enjoys the brushing massage, even though he almost never needs it!
@bertuzzi4ladybing Thank you, and that is keeping in line with how we treated our full sized Australian, and our Shetland Sheepdogs. We see a lot of them down at the dog beach in Huntington Beach; as a side, that is a great place to see almost any breed you can name. I read somewhere that the smaller Australian dogs were obtained without breeding in any other breed, just by selecting the smaller specimens, true? And that there are two smaller, one mini and one something else.
@jimquantic Yeah, our guy is a mini Aussie, but there's also a "toy" Aussie, which looks almost bizarre because it's about the size of a dachshund, yet has all the energy, drive, and herding instinct of their larger relatives. From what I've researched, they're all technically the same breed as there were no other dog breeds introduced to reduce their size, just selective breeding. I've read that it is possible, though very rarely, to have a full sized 65 pound dog come from a litter of minis.
@bertuzzi4ladybing Yes, I have heard this as well regarding some other breeds; for example, the Labs will sometimes throw a giant, something like a Newfoundland, one of their root breeds. Makes sense--if you want a real mind blower, check out the "Liger", which is far stranger than a cross of a Lion and Tiger--it actually triggers a gene normally supressed and the hybrid animal is larger than BOTH PARENTS COMBINED. In other words, an "extinct" specie is brought back, wow.
LUCKY, I just started researching on these dogs today, it looks like they shed alot though, do they?
aprilsnowflakes 1 year ago
@aprilsnowflakes Our guy just started shedding his puppy coat a couple weeks ago. It's not a tonne of hair if you keep up with it. Give him a quick brush for just a minute or two in the morning and at night and that'll keep most of it off your furniture. We have dark brown microsuede couches (not the smartest with dogs, I know), but there's barely any hair on them right now because of the brushing.
bertuzzi4ladybing 1 year ago
@aprilsnowflakes Also, they apparently do blow their coat once or twice per year depending on your climate, so we'll see what happens at that time. Our plan is to just keep up with the twice-daily brushing. We live in Vancouver BC so he should only blow his coat once, but you never know. It really depends on what you're used to; they shed more than a schnauzer or other coarse haired dog, but it's nothing even remotely close to a husky or malamute or other spitz-type dogs.
bertuzzi4ladybing 1 year ago
@bertuzzi4ladybing Seriously, TWICE in one day? My show Australian and all my Shetland Sheepdogs require nothing like that to look great. Seriously, is twice per day a misprint?
jimquantic 4 months ago
@jimquantic Sorry for the late reply, I don't check on too often! I was referring to brushing him twice a day while blowing his puppy coat just to keep the hair off the couch. That was back then, though. He doesn't shed much at all now since we live on the West Coast so the temperature doesn't fluctuate much (one coat all year).
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@jimquantic And yeah, as far as brushing to keep his coat looking good, it requires zero maintenance at all. We just brush him whenever we brush our other dog which is a different breed that requires a lot of maintenance. Chopper always comes running over after we're done with the other dog because he enjoys the brushing massage, even though he almost never needs it!
bertuzzi4ladybing 3 months ago in playlist More videos from bertuzzi4ladybing
@bertuzzi4ladybing Thank you, and that is keeping in line with how we treated our full sized Australian, and our Shetland Sheepdogs. We see a lot of them down at the dog beach in Huntington Beach; as a side, that is a great place to see almost any breed you can name. I read somewhere that the smaller Australian dogs were obtained without breeding in any other breed, just by selecting the smaller specimens, true? And that there are two smaller, one mini and one something else.
jimquantic 3 months ago
@jimquantic Yeah, our guy is a mini Aussie, but there's also a "toy" Aussie, which looks almost bizarre because it's about the size of a dachshund, yet has all the energy, drive, and herding instinct of their larger relatives. From what I've researched, they're all technically the same breed as there were no other dog breeds introduced to reduce their size, just selective breeding. I've read that it is possible, though very rarely, to have a full sized 65 pound dog come from a litter of minis.
bertuzzi4ladybing 3 months ago
@bertuzzi4ladybing Yes, I have heard this as well regarding some other breeds; for example, the Labs will sometimes throw a giant, something like a Newfoundland, one of their root breeds. Makes sense--if you want a real mind blower, check out the "Liger", which is far stranger than a cross of a Lion and Tiger--it actually triggers a gene normally supressed and the hybrid animal is larger than BOTH PARENTS COMBINED. In other words, an "extinct" specie is brought back, wow.
jimquantic 3 months ago