Remember, I am new here and still learning so sorry if question is kind of well...dumb. In order to try to establish pack leader with Bruno,I pretty much have him with me all the time. He is either leashed to my chair, in his crate in the house, or kennel outside. He has been an outside dog for the most part but to take advantage of every moment for the groundwork training he has been inside quite a bit. My point and question is as far as the weather and climate change from inside to outside, is it detrimental to him. Could the warm house cause him also to start shedding prematurely? I'm not talking hairs here and there but wads of hair? Prior to starting the training I would bring him in when I thought the weather was extreme such as wind chill worries or major thunderstorms etc. But that has only been a night here and there. Thanks for any help.
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Lori,
My GSDs live indoors and quite honestly, they shed year round. It is worse in the spring and fall, but it is pretty consistent all the time. A good vacuum is a must but it is all worth it to have them be your constant companions.
Growing up we had one GSD outside and one inside. The male outside would shed wads come spring/summer (lose his winter coat I guess) but the female inside never would do that. She would just lose hair, like you said, all year around. When thinking about that I just wondered if somehow someway being in the warmer climate more his body thinks its time to shed? Like really really shed.
Shedding has much less to do with temperature than light. As the days get longer, the amount of light entering the eyes and to the brain is greater. This triggers the brain to shed the coat and grow the summer coat in. And the opposite happens as less light enters the eye, i.e. fall/winter.
Having the dog indoor (with lights on all day and into the night, usually long after the sun goes down) causes the brain to go haywire and induce shedding all year long. Temperature contributes a little to indicate how much coat to grow, but does not play that large a role.
We use this light information to keep show coats on our horses. Turn the lights on from 4:30 AM and turn them off at 8:30 PM. The horses’ brains think that it is summer all year long. (Don’t worry. We keep them blanketed to make up for the lack of insulating hair! )
None of this really helps you in your situation, but there you go!
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#222249 - 01/03/2009 08:38 AM 
but it is all worth it to have them be your constant companions.
Interesting. See; knew I'd learn a bunch of stuff here. Thanks!
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