I once had a race for 45 days. The only way my dog stayed alive was drinking his own sweat and taking bites of meat from the hogs hind end. He finally broke the hog down enough to stop him.
I finally arrived with my chopper to haul the dog and hog out. That is when I realized....that wasnt the same hog we started a month and half earlier. That hog was black with brown split hairs. This hog was black with brown unsplitting hairs.
Do you think maybe he shed his old split brown coat, just growed new brown hairs that had not split yet since it was over a month time frame?