There is the American developed coat
type of American Soft Coat which is soft, fast growing
and requires regular maintenance.
The soft coated variety could only
of been achieved by the crossing of
a soft coated type dog with the
original wire
coated type ones. Most of the
soft coated cross-breeds have been
bred back to purebreds or developed
enough through
conscientious breeding to make
them purebreds themselves and
with the conformation known to
the
Schnauzer
breed just in a softer type
coat.
We stumbled upon the MERLE
Schnauzers some years back and
everybody that knows me knows
that the Merle pattern
has my heart. Though the
original ones we started with
were lacking in quality and
coat; we have been working
within our own breeding program
to establish a quality group of
them.
To date they have all been
gorgeous original wire-hairs
with a very slow growing coat.
