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« Reply #60 on: January 24, 2010, 11:42:09 pm » |
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G'day Mike,
Very well. If you keep their coats in reasonable condition (a bit of brushing) there is a loft about the hair that provides insulation from direct sunlight. However, I'm not sure if that's the case with all hairy dogs because we know this family and select for endurance and heat tolerance etc.
I like the long haired dogs because the ones I've had have been very tough (die on the boar if required) and very biddable. So the hair is more of an indicator of potential nature of the dog rather than something in its own right, if that makes sense.
The long hair is also very good protection in scratchy, stick ridden scrub and blackbery bushes etc. Harder for the boar to open them up too. Note the difference in pig skin, cutting from the inside is easy, trying to run a blade along the bristles and hoping to make a clean cut is hard...
I don't state all this stuff as fact just the facts of my own experience. Others might disagree but we could both be right...
Cheers.
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