History, coats, colours, temperament, health and culture of the badger hound — one long, low, stubborn encyclopedia.
The three coat varieties — smooth (short-haired), longhaired and wirehaired — how they arose, how they differ in grooming and shedding, and the folklore that each brings its own temperament.
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The original coat: a dense, glossy, low-maintenance jacket that shows the breed's lines most clearly — and sheds more than its length suggests.
Silky, feathered and often described as the calmest of the three — the longhair trades a weekly five minutes for a genuine grooming routine.
The most common coat in Germany and the most terrier-flavoured of the three: a harsh weatherproof jacket, a beard, and an opinion about everything.
Smooth, long and wire come with strong temperament reputations. Some of it is genetics riding in on the outcross; a lot of it is who chooses each coat.