If you have a pomeranian puppy uglies is going to affect your puppy. So you brought home your beautiful new ball of fluff. Its coat is so gorgeous and poofy looking, your so happy. Then as your pomeranian starts to grow around 4 and 6 months, you notice the coat looks stringy and straggly. Hair has begun to look long in some parts of the body. You might ask yourself is this the same puppy you bought before? Is it even a purebred pomeranian? The nose looks longer and more skinnier also. Your friends, family or spouses say you paid too much for that dog and it looks like this. DON'T PANIC! its normal for all pomeranians. That's why it is called "The Puppy Uglies" in pomeranians.
  So now what? Get a camera and take pictures, so later on you can compare how your pomeranian went through the ugly duckling stage and transformed into a beautiful swan. What happens is the puppy fur stops growing. Then adult hair starts to come in. In the transition, the dog looses the puppy hair and looks bald or even shaved. The new adult hair grows in slow. So for a few months it looks like a long hair chihuahua, not a purebred Pomeranian. At 6-9 months of age, the adult coat will be visibly thicker. At 9-12 months your puppy will start looking like a Pomeranian again and the coat will start to fluff up. There are no specific times for this. Some puppies start to lose the hair at 4 months, some at 7-8 months. Some grow the adult coat in and are full by the 1 year, some later. But by the age of 2 years old, most Pomeranians look amazing, with their full, thick, Pomeranian adult coats. To see more about puppy uglies ​CLICK HERE​​​
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                                                     Summer Molt​

  Summer can get very hot. A Pomeranians body knows how to get ready for summer. They will blow their coat for summer, or another term used is molting or molt. Many pomeranians will molt either their undercoat, or some will molt out their entire coat for the summer. It usually starts with large clumps of hair showing up at the ends of the fur. As you pull these out, or your dog does, the fur gets thinner. Some dogs will look bald during this time. Some will simply lose the undercoat and the coat looks deflated. Regular combing of the coat will help the fur not to mat or clump and it will help speed up the process.  Females tend to lose more of their coat than males. House dogs may not go through this at all. All dogs are individuals just as people are so there may be many variations of this. However this can happen to any and all Pomeranians. Don't worry about it, the coat WILL grow back!



                            Mothers weaning Molt
"Do mother Pomeranians really lose their fur after they wean their babies? That is what the breeder told me when I came out to see the puppies. The mother was so ugly! She didn't even look like a purebred. Is this true? That Mothers actually lose their fur? Or was this a lie to cover up the mother being a mix breed or sick?"

  I have been the breeder who has to show the mother of the puppies when she looks her WORST! But the answer is YES, Mother pomeranians do lose their coat after they wean their puppies. This is called "Mothers Weaning Molt". Just when the puppies are about ready to go home, and people are comming to pick up their new fluffy puppies, the mother starts to shed out her coat, or ''Blow" the coat. The result is a balding, or very short haired looking mother. This is normal. So believe the breeder if they tell you this when you see the ugly looking mother. You might wonder if she is a purebred. Most breeders have pictures of mother on the website for you to view and compare the the Ugly version you may see in person. Keep they pretty picture in mind. Try not to judge the mother to harshly, its not her fault! But the hair will grow back.