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A 2018 Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center literature review covering fifteen years of dog bites treated at the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Virginia Health System, with meta-analysis by breed, found that dog bites were most likely to come from the following breeds (in order of highest incidents): pit bull, mixed breed, German Shepherd ...
Having a dog doesn't mean your home must become a nest of pet hair. Some dogs are literally hairless, and even ones with long coats can be non-shedding.
Toy Poodles are a very popular dog breed due to their intelligence, friendly nature, and hypoallergenic coats. However, their unique coat comes with its own set of maintenance requirements.
The Havanese and the various poodles are also occasionally corded for showing. The cords form naturally (if messily) in tightly curled fur, but to make them attractive for conformation showing , the cords are carefully started by separating clumps of fur in a regular pattern, and tended until they are long enough to grow on their own. [ 8 ]
The goal was to produce a dog that was willing and easy to train, intelligent, and loved water and retrieving, like the poodle, and add to that a great desire to hunt, a strong pointing instinct, and an excellent nose, like in the English Pointer, as well as being an excellent companion in the home.
Sebaceous adenitis and hair loss in a dog. Sebaceous adenitis is an uncommon skin disease found in some breeds of dog, and more rarely in cats, rabbits and horses. [1] characterised by an inflammatory response against the dog's sebaceous glands (glands found in the hair follicles in the skin dermis), which can lead to the destruction of the gland.
According to the Encyclopedia of the Dog, the puli is "almost certainly" the ancestor of the poodle. [12] The breed was first studied by Dr Emil Raitsitz from Hungary's veterinary college in the 1920s. [13] The Puli would commonly work together with the much larger, white Komondor, a Hungarian breed of (solely) livestock guardian dog. The ...
It results in different colors and patterns and can affect any coats. The allele creates mottled patches of color in a solid or piebald coat, blue or odd-colored eyes, and can affect skin pigment as well. Two types of colored patches generally appear in a merle coat: brown/liver (red merle) and black (blue merle).