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People living with dogs in the house often notice and complain about the amount of hair the dog sheds. Shedding of hair is a normal process; dogs are covered in hair, and they have a lot more to shed than humans.
If a dog is losing large amounts of hair but is replacing it so that the coat looks healthy, then the hair loss can be regarded as normal.
Some breeds of dog such as the German Shepard, Samoyed and Chow Chow have a long outer coat with a short woolly undercoat. The undercoat may be shed unevenly giving the dog a patchy, moth-eaten appearance. Some owners are unneccessarily alarmed by the moth-eaten apperance of their dog and think that the dog has some disease affecting the coat.
Heavier shedding of the coat in spring and summer is not due to a change in temperature but is due to the increase in daylight hours. Consequently, house dogs exposed to lengthy periods of artificial light throughout the year shed their coat all year long.
Dogs living outdoors in very cold climates develop heavy coats that serve to protect them from the elements. Coat growth is stimulated by the decrease in daylight hours, not by the drop in temperature.
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