Thanks, everyone. With regards to the long and short haired predictions, I learned all about that from the breeder (she & her husband are one of the founding breeders of Saint Bernards here in Canada for the past thirty years). We saw Gershwin's litter at four weeks of age and the breeder told us that by six weeks you can distinguish between long and short haired by looking at the hair around their ears - if it starts to go crimpy, they will be long haired. Sure enough, when we picked up Gershwin at eight weeks the ones with the crimpy hair were easy to distinguish from the short haired. But having said that, our first Saint Guinness had a very very short coat - people were constantly asking us if he was a long haired Saint that we shaved down. Gershwins mother had a very short coat like Guinness, but his father has a longer short coat if that makes any sense. And Gershwin takes after his father so his coat should be the same ( see attached pic of his father).
