Blowing Coat in the Winter?

[DanielleOttoMom]

As most of you Circe is my new girl that a bought in October of this year . She is 3 years old and currently training with me in PSA. I feed her Canidae in the AM and PM. She heathly and gets plenty of exercise. Before I had bought her she was kept out in a kennel now she is a happy inside dog.

Now for the question. When I got her she was blowing coat in October it's now Decemember and she isn't shedding as much. She went from a "fluffy plush" to more of stock coat? Or summer type of coat. I would have liked to tought that she would have kept a plushier coat in the winter and a thin coat in the summer.....

Why is this happening? Is this a normal thing? My my male Otto has a stock coat he doesn't shed as much Circe. He does blow his coat twice a year. He coat is longer/fuller now than it is in the summer time.

Please someone please help explain this mystery.......

[Emoore]

I don't know, but Kopper is shedding like crazy. He's also going from more fluffy to more sleek. I keep trying to explain to him that it's December and he needs to be keeping his coat, but he won't listen. Rocky blew his coat in Summer like a sensible dog.

[SamanthaBrynn]

Callie is blowing her coat, but I think it's because she's 7 mos and losing her puppy coat? I'm not really sure. I'm new at this. There's hair everywhere!! I vacuum daily.

[DanielleOttoMom]

This is just strange to me that they do that?!?!
Hello it's 40 degrees out today.....

[DanielleOttoMom]

Originally Posted by SamanthaBrynn

Callie is blowing her coat, but I think it's because she's 7 mos and losing her puppy coat? I'm not really sure. I'm new at this. There's hair everywhere!! I vacuum daily.

I vaccum to daily.... I find it cute, surprisingly when it find hair on my desk at work. Yes I can even tell when it's a Circe hair or an Otto hair. I think to my self... "Awww my fur babies!"

[Castlemaid]

Gryffon always has a major shedding episode this time of year. Shedding out the summer coat as the winter coat comes in. Seems to shed more profusely through the winter shed than the summer shed - go figure!

[GSDAlphaMom]

Moses is blowing right now too but he has a really heavy plush coat. Is she spayed? If not females tend to blow coat several weeks before going into heat.

[phgsd]

Is she spayed? If she's intact she may have blown coat before coming into heat and she'll look naked for a while til it grows back.

[DanielleOttoMom]

No not spayed. I was told by a person at the my club last night some thing ineresting. That could be factual!

She said that when she first got her female blk sable plush coat GSD (Looks like Circe's twin). She was a kennel dog from over seas. She said her female blew her coat alot at first then it stayed more stock like. She freaked and thought some thing was wrong. She made an appointment to vist her vet. She told by her vet that alot of kennel dogs that become inside dogs lose alot of that thick undercoat that was protecting them from the elements of being outside. Now they are indoor their bodies have adjusted and don't need all the extract protection. Hmmmmm..... I thought. So I wonder..... Thats why I thought I ask on here....

Why do they lose their coats before going into heat?

[GSDAlphaMom]

It's hormonal. Gilda has a beautiful coat and a month or so before she goes into heat she blows it big time and looks awful! Fortunately it starts coming right back in shortly thereafter. She looks like a totally different dog after blowing.