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No, but a little foreshortened, perspective-wise. Still, at over 180 pounds, he's a very big boy.
<<"You've got to have strength in mind and body [and] be mindful that if you go for a lovely looking fluffy one, then you've got to be prepared to work with the coat," she says.
"Because you will be living with it in your bed, in your food, on your clothes and everywhere else.">>
At around 75 lb, my medium-length coat German Shepherd, Rip, is hard enough to clean up after during shedding season. The bundles of undercoat hair that accumulate in corners and under places remind me of cotton candy machines at carnivals. I need a garden rake as much as a vacuum cleaner to get it up.
And her is nothing compared to the Samoyed and two Siberian Huskies I had from the 1970s to the early 2000s (all 3 consecutively, with the two Huskies -- Narvik and Lobo -- each living just short of 14 years). I could have opened a mattress factory using their hair for stuffing....