Bi-color puppy - Page 1

Can you able to identify a Bi-color puppy at age two months? Any significant markings?

I think that the strongest indicator would be no tan markings on the head and neck or under the tail for an 8 week old puppy. The term bi-colour really is difficult since people often refer to a very dark black & tan as a bi. I've looked up a bit on the internet since my puppy is very dark and I was hoping that I could refer to her as a bi but she is actually just a very dark blk/tan. My puupy:http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/444503.html A website with some pics that helped was http://jmadesign.com/Frankenhaus/colorgen01.html Hope that helps some.

A lot of people don't seem to beable to distinguish the difference between dark black and tans and bi-colors...I have 1 of each and they look so much a like that it is very hard to tell the difference...

A Bicolor will usually get darker/more black on it's legs, feet, chest as it ages - even at 8 weeks old they will always develop pitch-black toe "penciling" on the top of every toe (if they are not born with it they will develop it) and they will always have "tarheels" a black patch behind the wrist, and behind the lower leg from hock to back of foot on the hind legs. Chest, facial, eyebrow markings are sometimes there, sometimes not, but they are very small, and often fade completely away. There will be absolutely no brown around the ears - sometimes there are a few brown hairs in the ears but never around the ears on the head. No brown on the belly either, or under the chest - they will develop brown/tan between the back legs, and they always have a tan marking over the "vent" under the tail. Some bicolors are born completely black and then develop brown on their feet, others appear black/tan and then darken to nearly black - but they always have brown on the "vent" from birth. True bicolors always have black toe marks, tarheels and no brown around ears, belly, or body. Black/tans even the darkest ones don't have these distinguishing markings. But it can be hard to tell in a very young puppy - they can appear bicolor but then lose their "bicolor distinguishing" markings and become a dark black/tan. I can usually tell for sure by 10 weeks. molly

Brilliant description Molly! I do have a bi-color that lacks tar heals. She's a gorgeous bi with the reddest red I have ever seen on a bi-color. She's also got heavy bone to rival most males, a truly amazing girl! Eyko vom Zwischensee is a bi-color as I see the photo on this site.