Not exact matches
Chinese
cresteds come in two
varieties,
hairless and powderpuff, and weigh between 10 and 15 pounds.
The
Cresteds come in two
varieties:
Hairless and Powderpuff (Powderpuff is genetically recessive).
The
Hairless variety has hair on certain portions of the body: the head (called a
crest), the tail (called a plume) and the feet from the toes to the front pasterns and rear hock joints (called socks).
The
hairless trait that makes these dogs so unusual is actually an incomplete dominant gene and many of the Chinese
Cresteds have full coats (Powderpuff
varieties).
Like most
hairless dog breeds, the Chinese crested comes in two varieties, with and without fur, which are born in the same litter: the Powderpuff and the H
hairless dog breeds, the Chinese
crested comes in two
varieties, with and without fur, which are born in the same litter: the Powderpuff and the
HairlessHairless.
At first look, the
Hairless and Powderpuff
varieties of Chinese
crested dogs appear to be two different breeds, but hairlessness is an incomplete dominant trait within a single breed.