Hi Andrea, You're not expecting visitors in the near future by any chance, are you? I've found this is a sure fire signal for females to start blowing coat :-). My two (spayed) girls are shedding big time, stand them head into the wind and it looks like a flock of blackbirds flying down the road! We went through all this in the spring and I thought I was over finding the black hair slicks all over the house, at least until later this year. But then they caught wind of the impending visit of friends from America and have been liberally plastering the house with their coats ever since... Good job they're Berner people and are used to hairy beds, hairy coffee, hairy tea-and-toast... (Hope I'm not putting my visitors off!!) Strangely Toby isn't losing any more of his coat than usual, but I suspect he's just waiting until the day before they arrive, just to keep me on my toes and my Dyson extra busy <g>. I've also come up with another theory about blowing coat, that the more you work to get rid of the offending loose hair, the more there is to remove... Liz Bradbury in Scotland, with Roxie the bouncing Berner; Newfs Toby and Maggie; & the 6 Feline Fiends. http://www.btinternet.com/~liz.Bradbury1
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:19:52 -0400, Andrea Brin wrote: >i know that hormones determine blowing coat in an intact female. i >do not >understand what is happening with chi. she is 17 months old. she had >her >first heat at 14 months. she blew her coat and hardly shed a hair >since then >(up until last week), now he hair is flying out. it is all over the >place >big time.
