Summer has arrived and in theory so should the warmer temperatures and hairy critters are starting to get rid of their winter coats. Well... actually the temperatures don't really have much to do with coat shedding, it is more that the shifting light cycle triggers the body's hair dropping process. And it is just as well that it is light and not temperatures that trigger the shedding for the hairy critters in the northwest. Summer's warm temperatures are slow to get here in southwestern Washington and the poor critters would remain woolly well into July if they were waiting for warmer weather to drop their coats.
The days are in fact staying lighter for longer and Flash is starting to show his summer coat and he is all together a horse of a different color than he was before!
The woolly bay and grey undertones are giving way to a white belly and pewter grey haunches and shoulders. He still has a ways to go on his shedding around his belly and I am curious to see if any paint markings are going to shine through.
He has two small spots of defined white markings on his shoulder and belly which earned him his first name as "Two Feathers" It will be interesting to see what is under the shaggy light colors around his barrel.
