Why don't animals have dreads?

I was just brushing my teeth and getting ready to sleep (the best time for dumb questions to kick in) and i was like...wtf, i've never seen an animal with dreads. It's weird, because theoretically animals should have dreads, then again, i guess animal hair is different from human hair.
Just making stuff up, don't mind me
Goodnight and see you tomorrow.

 

animals constantly groom themselves.
licking ya know.

 

Most animals have fur rather than hair, and the length usually isn't very long. Animals with fur tend to shed, which prevents it from knotting up. Animals with long, hair-like fur will grow knotty mats which, when split apart, would resemble dreads. Kinda like the puli dog (whose coat also grows quite long).

 

My horse's tail (and mane, now that it's long enough) is prone to "wind braids" aka, dreads. I keep it in actual braids to keep it from not dreading, as it's a pain to clean.

 

you have a horse???? *jelous*

 

yop yop! I was going to put a picture of her in my timeline, but I forgot. Maybe later this spring I will, with one of me and her before and after I got dreads.

 

some animals can have matted hair. some animals are meant for them like komondor and puli breed dogs. other animals have matted fur due to either the environment or owner's neglect (i've seen a few chow chow dogs with matted 'dread' things) but most animals have short terminal length and it's fur, not hair, which sheds with the seasons. but most long haired animals aren't meant to have matted hair and it is very bad for the skin and can be pretty painful

 

My chow dog (that how now crossed to the other side ), had something like dreads - but it wasn't because of neglect...her hair/fur would just naturally do that - and every single summer it was a necessity to use the sharpest (real) hair shears to clip through that stuff.
She was an outside dog and through the winter it would "dread up" something serious.

 

if the hair is long enough and the animal doesn't groom itself, it will dread.

 

lol pwned OP

 

my cat gets matted dready bits and she doesnt let us brush her. we cut them off as close to the skin as we could, but its still matted right at the root, and she wont let us touch that area of her back now =[

 

my dog gets dreads,hes a long haired chihuahua and he had one under his ear I stopped combing it out as he looked really cool and it got really long.
We used to to give it to him and he carried it round in his mouth

 

mm yeah my long hair lab/retriever would always get ear dreads and sometimes belly dreads... but she was good about letting me brush/cut them out

 

^this is why i don't keep animals with long hair

 

Animals groom themselves too much, but this only applies to animals with fur. I always find that amenemenies (or something like that spelling) look like they have dreads.
I took this one at the zoo:

 

spelled aenemones perhaps???/

 

yea

 

Yeah... We should learn how to spell those words during english lessons instead of reading mc-texts from before I was born.

 

Lol, it's totally anemone. I had a lab final last week where I had to learn all about those little guys (and the rest of the Cnidarians) oooooh, good times. The spelling needed to be learned. I used to butcher it too, with lots of e's and n's. It always made more sense then the correct way (and still does, IMO).