Black and Silver Shepherd - Page 2

UBERLAND;  I emailed you and it came back , by the demon: no such email box....do you need to edit yours ;

I had a message for you.....from ddh

From looking at pedigrees in the past, I have noticed that when either the dam or sire is black and silver, there is a white dog 
in the pedigree, I'm talking real black & silver, not black & cream....................

Years back I almost purchased a dog from Snowcloud kennels   ( Don't get me wrong, they were VERY nice people and I liked all the obedience titles there dogs had earned!)     , they had alot of different colors including a complete
silver German Shepherd, but then again, that's when I stayed focused, and said, what is the standard of the German 
Shepherd dog, and when does it stop becoming a German Shepherd??? 

Here's the link for Snowcloud 

www.pets4you.com/pages/snowcloud.html

Well behaved dogs of a different color!

From where I sit, after viewing Snowcloud, I would say she has some beautiful, happy dogs... and kids.  (Purists beware and pet lovers rejoice!)

Sorry I said Vallahalla --I meant to say Valientdale--she is in Tulsa. 

There you go , Mirasmom found you a blk./silver pup....Elizabeth.......7 weeks old....bottom of page at snowcloud......

Thank you for responding. I have not been on here for a long time and just now got the responses. Thank you for all of them. I found a man who has German Lines here in my area and his always throw off solid black and black and silver. So I found a black and silver female and bought her. So thank you guys for all the help and for responding!!

....my first german shepherd was a black &.silver...1963..quite common at that time

Every German Shepherd has white dogs in its pedigree!  They were amongst the very 1st bloodlines of the originators.  True white is a mask, a marking much like it is in horses - a "cremello" is a "white" horse, but really is a colored horse whose color has been totally overrun by the white markings - no longer just stripe or bald face or even pinto, but totally taken over by those markings!  It has NOTHING to do with the "color" baseline.

As for "dilute" - silver is NOT a dilution.  Only blue and liver are dilutes - if they show blue/liver points (nose, nails) or mottled thereof.  Again, silver will not dilute whatever you breed to.  Just that it might show up as another random possibility.

BTW, I would not say black & silver is an "American" thing.  The show types prefer better colors.  My dog - a mere black & tan (perish the thought - the basic color!) - was not good enough for them (or the Germans).  But they won't pooh-pooh it altogether.  I think people are confusing common pet dogs in America with "American show" dogs.