The Long or Short of it!

Longhaired breeds have several different styles. Some are part coats, some are blended coats, and some are natural.

Shorthaired breeds require specialized grooming as well. Some will have hard coats like the terriers and will require stripping of the excess coat. Others will only need minimum tidying, such as retrievers or Husky.

Smoothhaired breeds require even less, in so far as trimming is involved. Usually breeds such as pointers and hounds bound for the show ring will be spotlessly clean and have sleekly trimmed whiskers and feet, which always present a tidy but closely natural look. Very little, if any thing is removed from the back, underside, thighs, etc. Again, simply a tidy-up to perfect the outline.

The majority of my customers own crossbred dogs and often I will be requested to create a grooming miracle by transforming a multipoo into a terrier or a some other breed facsimile with the wrong coat texture for the job that makes it impossible. If the desired look comes from a hard-coated breed and you have a dog with a soft coat you may not like the results. You will find that shaping it into a design which can only be sported by a dog who possesses the correct type of coat, will result in a poor resemblance of the desire look. More often than not, crossbred dogs lack the abundance of coat required to emulate its purebred counterpart. Still, it can be close, but so must be the breed type.

Below you will find an alphabetical list of breeds divided into categories which have distinct coat types.

The Longhaired breeds

1. Afghan Hound 2. American Cocker Spaniel 3. American Water Spaniel 4. Bearded Collie 5. Bedlington Terrier 6. Belgian Sheepdog 7. Belgian Tervuren 8. Bernese Mountain Dog 9. Bichon Frise 10. Borzoi 11. Bouvier des Flanders 12. Briard 13. Brittany Spaniel 14. Chihuahua 15. Clumber Spaniel 16. Collie(rough) 17. Dachshund(longhaired) 18. English Cocker Spaniel 19. English Setter 20. English Springer Spaniel 21. Field Spaniel 22. Gordon Setter 23. Great Prynese 24. Irish Setter 25. Irish Water Spaniel 26. Irish Wolfhound 27. Japanese Chin 28. Keeshond 29. Kerry Blue Terrier 30. Komondor 31. Kuvasz 32. Lhasa Apso 33. Maltese 34. Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier 35. Newfoundland 36. Old English Sheep Dog 37. Otterhound 38. Papillon 39. Pekingese 40. Pomeranian 41. Poodle 42. Puli 43. Saint Bernard(longhaired) 44. Samoyed 45. Scottish Deerhound 46. Shetland Sheepdog 47. Shih Tzu 48. Silky Terrier 49. Skye Terrier 50. Sussex Spaniel 51. Tibetan Terrier 52. Welsh Springer Spaniel 53. Yorkshire Terrier

Shorthaired Breeds

1. Affenpinscher 2. Airedale Terrier

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