Ridgeback

[klj5022]

My 8 month old presa female has started to really show guard tendencies in the house and sometimes outside. When she get fully alert her hairs on her spine raise up. She has a reddish color to her but has a darker red down her spine, when the hairs raise up it looks identical to a ridgeback. Anyone have anything like this. I haven't gotten a picture of it in action because it shocked me when i saw it. As we went into the dog park i was asked if she was a ridgeback because her hairs where up due to it being her first time there.

Here is a pic from a couple weeks ago, not the best angle or quality but you can kind of see the line down her back,

 

[Dreadz]

Yup. With my presa if she's mildly annoyed by something it's just a patch below the bottom of her neck. You know she's really annoyed when it extends right down her spine.

 

[dpenning]

Daisy is an apricot EM and she gets a ridge when she goes into high alert.

 

[DDSK]

Both my CC's do that also.
More noticeable in my red girl than in my blue girl.

 

[Max's mom]

Max is EM and is always on high alert! You know with birds and cats in the woods, a plastic bag in the yard or the mailman/delivery. He wears a mowhawk all the time!

 

[SiberianShepherd]

Not a ridgeback unless the hairs that go up are the opposite way of his normal hair like this.


My puppy Cane Corso rottweiler mix has a similar stripe patch too.(dont have a picture right now sadly)

 

[TricAP]

Angus is an EM and he has a very noticeable "ridge back" out of his black longer guard hairs when on alert. We call this his racing stripe.

 

[PrinceLorde13]

My boy gets it and it cracked me up the first time it happened, my neighbor was having a stump removed and since his 14y/o husky girl is my dogs' best friend they feel the need to watch over his house too. So we came out and there were 3 guys in his yard unloading a big piece of machinery, well Prince didn't like this so he started trotting back and forth at the fence line, almost looked like he was on his tip toes, growling non stop like a Harley, and a big thick "ridge" of hair standing on end down his neck and back, I was dying he looked so funny, I went in and the first words out of my mouth were, " hunny do you remember those Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs I showed you." Lol

 

[Cobalt]

This is simply "raised hackles" when a dog becomes excited, common to all breeds more or less.

 

[dpenning]

Max is EM and is always on high alert! You know with birds and cats in the woods, a plastic bag in the yard or the mailman/delivery. He wears a mowhawk all the time!

Lol! Daisy's Mohawk doesn't show unless she means business but I know what you mean about about always on high alert. For Daisy it can be birdies, wind or one of her siblings using the doggie door and her head pops up ears back doing the mental calculations on whether it is worth the energy expenditure to investigate the "threat". She reminds me of the velociraptors on Jurassic Park.

 

[klj5022]

LOL thanks everyone for the great responses