Patches coat ?

[papbouv]

This may or may not make sense hope it does About a month  may have been 2 months ago I used a stripping comb on Patches as you know she is a Long Hair she allot of fuzzy hair so combed her with one of my old Bouvier Stripping knifes. Seem like now her hair is not growing very much seems shorter on the sides???Is is normal for a Long Hair to have growth cycles on their hair since it is getting cooler figured her hair would get thicker and be growing like a weed.Good thing she has a couple of put on coats to wear when it gets really cold or she would be freezing her butt off.Just wondering if I messed her hair up would not think just combing it with a stripping knife would hurt it any. Anyone with any ideas. Patches will be three years old in January thought Long Hairs got there full coat at 5 years old. Sorry for all the dumb questions but Patches is my first Dachshund.
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[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Hmmm...I don't suppose you could get a photo of that? Hallie's hair is definitely shorter along her back and gets longer as it goes down her sides. My Jessie didn't get her full coat by 5 she had plenty of coat but it got longer every year it seemed. Hallie's went backwards this year she lost a bunch of hair on her ears and I'm not exactly sure why!

Seems longhairs can have a wide variety of coats out there. Hallie has zero undercoat which is nice for no shedding but even her dermatologist comments how unusual it is when he parts her coat and sees skin.

[papbouv]

Will try if my camera and computer decide to work both old and work when they want too going to try and sic my DIL on my computer if she has time she is a whiz at computers. Would like to get a new computer but do not think my camera and my printer would work with the new Vista program??Papbouv

[Kathleen]

IShe might have dropped her summer coat and her winter coat is just coming in.  Or you might have done what I did with Winston last year.  I stripped him with a shedding blade in August, thinking I was getting rid of his summer coat.  Unfortunately, I stripped out his freshly growing in undercoat for winter    It started coming back in January and by March he was a big old fluffball, but the poor kid did shiver through the beginning of the winter. 

The stripping knife pulls out dead undercoat, so it sounds to me like you just pulled out the dead old coat.  Maybe she's just smoother because she only has the current years growth left?  MOST longhairs have their full coat by the time they're three at latest, so what she has now is probably what she'll end up with. 

[papbouv]

Thanks everyone
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