Does my puppy shed or started to change her baby coat?

[Li Lai]

I got my puppy Joy from a home breeder when she’s 4 months old and she wasn’t shed at all. I meant AT ALL, I let her sit on the back seat of my car when we go to puppy classes and couldn’t find any, even 1 hair, from the seat at the beginning.

 

2 months later when she’s 6 months old, I found a couple of fur ball near her crate when I doing my weekly cleaning.

 

She’s 8 months now and I can see a few fur balls floating around her crate everyday after work. My car seat is full of her hair.

 

I brush her every other day and she’s not matted nor tangled, so I’m not sure if she sheds or started to change her baby coat?

 

Thanks in advance

 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

It might be both. She might be going through a coat change, but she also might shed. It's pretty common among doodles, especially F1s (first cross) regardless of the myths that they are nonshedding dogs.

[Li Lai]

Thank you for qucik response
FYI -my puppy is a F1B goldendoodle

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

F1Bs are less likely to shed, but there are no guarantees. In my experience, a dog who sheds as a puppy will shed as an adult. True non-shedding breeds like poodles don't ever shed at all, as puppies or adults, and do not have these coat changes I read about here on DK.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Both my dogs had what I think of as coat changes, i.e. matting of a monumental nature and then back to just plain matting for Luca. Calla at times lost clumps of hair at that time, perhaps because it snagged on somehthing. But neither of the dogs shed. My cousins lab used to stay with me sometimes. now that shedding when you find tumbleweeds of hair around. Rex, the poodle, never lost a hair that I could find.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

The matting, yes. Poodles coats go from soft & fluffy with looser curls as puppies to dense, coarse, tight curls as adults, and that's when the matting starts. So I guess you could say they do have a coat change. But shedding really never enters the picture. I did often find a small tuft of hair here and there, and got those when brushing, too. But no tumbleweeds and no loose hairs on surfaces.

[April Cliber]

She may always shed some, but my in my experience, it will slow down after her adult coat comes in. Keep brushing. During coat changes matting is very common and sometimes the appear over night.