What is a Hairless Chinese Crested
As the Poodle gets groomed to dance in the show ring so does the hairless Chinese Crested. | |
| The hairless quality is due to the presence of a hairless gene… the symptom of that gene is lack of hair on the body of the dog. This gene can also attribute to the lack of some teeth with lower k-9’s leaning slightly forward in some mouths. There can be differing degrees of lack of hair on the body. Some hairless dogs have a little hair on the top of the head, the tip of the tail and on the lower leg and foot. Others have hair that has to be groomed to make the hairless appearance. However having no body hair as in a true hairless: Hair in all the right places and little body hair as an ideal hairless: lots of hair as in the hairy hairless: The hairless puppy is totally hairless at birth and carries the hairless gene as well as the puff gene .. The hairless gene is what determines that it is a hairless puppy not the lack of hair on its body – that is just a symptom of the hairless gene. The hairless Chinese Crested is complete in itself it has a hairless gene and a powderpuff gene and does not need the Powderpuff for any reason. The Powderpuff can not improve the hairless qualities in the hairless puppy because hairless qualities are linked with the hairless gene and the Powderpuff does not have one. The Powderpuff CAN NOT produce a hairless puppy, it can only parent a hairless puppy when breed to a hairless mate and all the hairless qualities then come from the hairless parent. When having two hairless parent you have two hairless gene pools to pull from and in this way you can improve the quality of the hairless puppy. |
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A hairy hairless is born naked and by the time it is one month old shows differing degrees of body hair. Often competing with the powderpuff. Having this amount of extra body hair gives it the ability to grow ample extra long hair for the crest, boots and tail. This is the Chinese crested you are most likely to see in the show ring. Unlike the Poodle that is rarely seen on the street in it Show Dress, this is the look everyone wants but they do not realize that the Poodle is sculpted for the ring and so is the hairy hairless Chinese Crested.
Ideal Hairless
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In my opinion this is the best dog that I produced She was born totally naked with just a bit of fuzz on the top of her head and a little on the tip of her tail. As she grew the hair started to appear down the center of her back and on the back or the hind legs. By the time she was 6 weeks old she had body hair that had to be groomed. This is about half the hair that a hairy hairless has and more hair that the true hairless. IMO this is the best dog for the show ring. No matter how much hair she develops it can not change the gene. Genetically there is a hairless and a powderpuff.
True Hairless
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This is is a true hairless mid 90’s version with very little hair on the ears, neck, feet and legs. On a true hairless you can always see the skin on the legs and feet through the little bit of hair they have. The hair on the head stops and the base of the skull and there is no neck hair to make a mane. The face is mostly bare and there is only a small fringe of hair around the ears and will never get more than that. The body has no hair to groom and the tail has hair only on the last 2/3 This is not today’s popular style of Chinese Crested.
