Favourite GSD coat colour? - Page 3

For me I like extremely dark, black sable with brown around the eyes.  Like Iltis von der Wildsau. 

I have 2 SL GSDs, both of whom are black and tan - although Yiannis is so much lighter than Zane sometimes I'd consider him to be black and yellow.

I also have 2 WL dogs. Jenzi is black/gold sable, althuogh seems to be more black than anything else recently.
Koda is what I would consider to be black and tan but I've been told he is a bi-colour. His body and head are completely black but his legs (from the elbows at the front and knees at the back) are tan coloured. He doesn't have the pencil markings on his toes which I thought was a pre-requisite for a bi-colour (stillnew to thi so am probably wrong).

I love the sables most, particularly the reds. When I picked up Koda though, I deliberately didn't ask about his colouring or appearance. I went purely on his character, temperament and ability to work along with whether he'd be a good match for the level of training etc that I'd be doing with him.

hving said that, I love all my dogs to pieces. I love them all the same amount but for different reasons, their different characters, their little foibles etc

I'm not that keen on pure black or pure white white but I have a friend who has a white GSD. He doesn't look like a bottel ofmilk thugh, he's more of a pale champagne colour.

Working lines have more sable because sable is the most dominant of colors, it stands to reason in a species that the dominant allele of any phenotype will be the most commonly seen trait. There are more brown eyed people than blue or green eyed people. Ironically the reason show line dogs are black and tan is because they are actually on purpose breeding for color. So it is not that the working line people are breeding for sable and that is why there are so many sable dogs, it is that show line and pet line breeders are breeding for black and tan and that is why there is so many black and tan dogs.

Sable dogs making up the majority of working line dogs is actually testament to the fact that working line breeders in general are breeding for working ability, drive, and temperament first and foremost. Also there is nothing wrong with likeing one color over another, so long as that is not the determining factor, I prefer a pure black dog and so long as the drives are good and the pedigree is solid hell I am dropping big money on the deal as it is might as well get the dog I want. However when it comes to dog breeding versus dog buying then it becomes essential to be color blind.

geordiegaviino here is a looker for you

Thats the sable color I prefer, but its difficult to come by. Most of the dark sables have a grey undercoat, she has a tan one with a deep dark brown top coat, with black mixed in.

She has a very stunning color, to me the dark sables are just dignified in general. You are right most dark sable have the grey undercoat, the dog in the picture is so, soo dark I LOOVE it! Thank you for sharing.

I like color of the dog which kicks ass.
\Prager Hans

That sounds about right.

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