Question About Fluffies
Max is a fluffy and only once has his coat been allowed to grow out to it's full potential. I do not shave him, not even in the hot summer. He was shaved when we got him and he looked terrible. But my groomer does a wonderful job trimming him so he looks like a beautiful fluffy but his coat stays neat. He was just groomed in my avie. In fact his groomer took that pic to use on her website. She then did it on the computer so it looks like a painting and presented it to me. I also have the original picture which is the avie.
Recently I heard someone refer to a corgi as a "super fluffy". I don't understand what they are referring to. Are there different designations of a fluffy coat?
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Permalink Reply by Andrea on
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I've only seen people calling a "fluffy" and glamor coat. Which is weird, cuz it's just a fluffy corgi. LOL
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Permalink Reply by Priss, Charlie & Kaylee (PK) on
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I think fluffy/glamour coat refer to the same thing, but to differing degrees. I don't think "super fluffy" is a real designation.
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Permalink Reply by Sam Tsang on
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Hi Linda, there are different variation in the fluffy coat, I have met 5 fluffies that were owned by Bill Gotthelf at the FL picnic, none of their coat feels the same, one is softer than the other, one is finer the other, I don't know about proper designation, no single fluffy coat feels the same to me :)
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Permalink Reply by Linda on
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Thanks Sam...I've heard the super fluffy more than once and wondered about it. I know some have short fluffy coats and some longer from pictures but I have not met another fluffy in person. Well, except for a fluffy puppy when we went to pick up Katie from the breeder. Karen had a litter and showed me what Max looked like as a puppy. What a fluff ball! Max has a very long coat if I let it grow out and it's very soft and silky.
I love all corgis but Max has put me where my next one will be a fluffy, he is so beautiful. Katie has a normal coat and I swear she sheds more than Max.
I wish they were allowed to be shown, many breeds have different coats and all are shown. The gene is so prevalent for a fluffy coat why deny such a beautiful dog the admiration it deserves.
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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"Glamour coat" is not the same as fluffy. "Glamour coat" refers to a normal-coated dog who has a very plush coat. I think some breeders feel that being fluff-factored (carrying one copy of the fluffy gene) gives the dog a normal coat that is extra-plush. My Madison has what I call a "glamour coat" and she is fluff-factored.
Linda, re: the show ring standards: if you look at the conditions in which a Corgi was meant to work (muddy cow fields) you can see why the fluffy coat, while beautiful, would not be as easy to clean.
When I see what has happened to other coated dogs in the show ring, I'm sort of glad of the requirement for a standard coat. So many of the coated dogs have stopped even pretending to breed for anything like a workable coat; the coats get longer and longer to the point that the dog would not be capable of doing its job. Look at rough collies, cockers, English Springer Spaniels, the setters.... all of the dogs either no longer work at all, or have working lines of the same breeds that could never compete in the show ring because they lack enough coat.
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Beth....I do understand about a "workable" coat. I would hate to deal with Max's coat after he was running a field chasing a bunch of cows. He gets bad enough in mud season. I just love fluffies.
I think an extreme in the ring is the show cut for standard poodles. I know the reasoning behind the cut and those pom poms...they protect the joints, poodles are water dogs but I think they have taken the show cut to such an extreme with all the froo froo. Many people laugh at them and think they are nothing more than a fancy, fussy dog that that has no worth other than a decoration. Poodles are highly intelligent and hard working dogs and their coat should reflect that fact. Maybe for the toys it's ok since they are more the pet than a working dog.
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Linda, I always get mixed feelings about things like allowing different coat types. I personally prefer the "wash and wear" coat to live with, but I think the fluffs are just gorgeous (a BHT fluff has to be the most stunning Corgi in existence, to my own eyes).
And I value genetic diversity, so part of me wants to see more coat types allowed. But part of me does not trust what happens when our very real human egos get involved and coats turn into trappings instead of something functional the dog can live with.
If only there were easy answers! :-)
And I agree about the poodles. The whole labradoodle thing kills me because an ideal doodle looks and acts an awful lot like a standard poodle, but so many are turned off by the poodle show coat they won't consider them. Standard poodles were on MY short list of breeds and my husband said a firm "no." He hated the "froof". I tried to explain the puppy clip but he wasn't buying what I was selling. Since he's usually easy-going I let it go.
But then we were out once at a canoe-a-thon and someone was there with a beautiful dog my husband loved. After we left he asked "What kind of dog was that?" My answer: "A standard poodle." Dead silence his end. LOL But we love our Corgis so I have no regrets.
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Beth....I agree about humans going too far in breeding for traits that only (some) humans want to see and not what is good for the dog or cat. Too pushed in faces that cause worse breathing problems for dogs that already have them, too long spines for dogs that already are long and low that cause so much pain for for the dog.
Many many years ago a good friend had a standard poodle but kept him in the puppy clip. So many people had no idea that Wally was a poodle because he wasn't froo froo. I feel sorry for the dogs when I see them all gussied up instead of looking like a dog.
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