Just in case you were thinking that Kharma was perfect...I have two words for you. HAIR EVERYWHERE.
Car, sofa, black pants, new quilt, coffee table.
All our previous dogs had lovely long hair and shed their coats in large clumps. Kharma apparently throws off each hair individually. It's one of the hazards of getting a mixed-breed puppy. Kharma has the energy of the aussie and border collie (good for agility), she is mellow like the golden retriever (wonderful), but she has my two least favorite features of labs--some of the slobber and all of the shedding hair.
We did hope for another "clumper" that is characteristic of aussie and goldens. You just pull feathery chunks out and pick up the occasional hairball floating on the carpet. It's strange to think that the long haired dogs are generally easier to pick up after.
It took quite a while to figure out that Kharma was even shedding. We knew we were seeing hair on our clothes, but not that she was sneakily depositing hair on our carpet of the same general color.Now we get full vacuum cleaner bags after only a few weeks and have to vacuum the sofa and recliner regularly along with the rug. She's not crazy about getting brushed, but it has to be part of her daily beauty routine. The seats in the car have to protected by towels when she's left in there while we shop or else we'd be wearing more dog hair than Cruella DeVille.
We love her anyway.
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