Bichon-Cavalier

by Barbara Keith

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9.000 x 12.000 inches

Title

Bichon-Cavalier

Artist

Barbara Keith

Medium

Drawing - Graphite On Bristol

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Cross a bichon frise with a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, and you'll get a cavachon. There is no breed standard for the cavachon's temperament or appearance, but both the Cavalier and the bichon share a happy and affectionate personality passed down to their cavachon offspring.

Puppies may take after one parent breed more than the other, and wide variation can occur even within the same litter. While each cavachon will combine traits from both of their parent breeds, how those traits combine is impossible to predict, points out PetGuide. As a result, each cavachon dog full-grown is unique, but you can generally expect a grown cavachon to be on the small side, with most weighing somewhere between 15 to 35 pounds and standing no taller than 13 inches at the withers.

The bichon's trademark curly, puffy, cotton-ball coat is tempered by the Cavalier's soft waves, typically resulting in a medium-length, wavy cavachon dog coat that retains the low-shedding, hypoallergenic qualities of the bichon. Coloring typically takes after the Cavalier's cream-and-tan color pattern, although some cavachons may be solid colored or all white like the bichon. They might also have touches of black, resulting in a tri-color pattern (hillspet.com).

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March 18th, 2014

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