They have a shaggy appearance but as with the other double -
coated breeds mentioned any hair loss is usually contained within the coat and got rid of by regular brushing.
Not exact matches
Domestic dog
breeds are more varied in body size and shape — not to
mention coat color and fur length — than any other land - based mammal.
They also, as we
mentioned before, have thick
coats — This, along with the high amount of dander that falls off of their fur and the drooling of saliva, can reek havoc on an allergy sufferer, especially since the amounts of dander and saliva are at amazingly high levels with this
breed.
Writing on dogs in Ireland a century ago, H. D. Richardson of Dublin, famous writer and authority on dogs, does not
mention Irish Terriers as a
breed, or Soft
Coated Wheaten Terriers, nor Kerry Blues, as such.
This cat is
mentioned in Carthusian records as early as the fifteen hundreds, but it is thought more likely that this
breed was named because of its
coat.
Although the dog
breeds mentioned in the table above are fairly low shedders, any dog's health can affect its
coat and cause shedding.