Talk:Old English Sheepdog

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Regarding the spinning of OES hair into yarn: OES don't moult or shed, except for once/twice when they blow out their puppy coat. Spinners of OES fur prefer much longer fibers than puppy coats.

As the practice is fairly uncommon (from my experience, much less than 1% of OES owners over their lifetimes), I don't know that a discussion on the practice belongs in the Wikipedia. However I wasn't sure, so I edited it somewhat for correctness and left it in.

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There is so much OR, uncited, personal opinion, and debunked myths on this page it is nearly hopeless. For example:

→ Long heavy thick coats don't protect dogs (or any other mammal) from heat, (yes it does dogs do not cool like humans do, long fur helps keep the animal cool when you use your respiretory system to cool, not sweat like humans.)

→ Hair (the fall) does not need to cover their eyes to prevent cataracts any more than any other breed,

→ OES CAN see through the fall, but not perfectly well (put your hair over your own eyes). They can see when they are moving beyond a walking gait because a proper fall will part.

Just too much to argue about and too much to edit. Ron S 07:24, 5 August 2007 (UTC)