Cute puppy, odd colour - Page 1

www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/classifieds/53635.html

I just came across this ad. A very cute puppy but the colour and coat looks different from anything I've ever seen.

Normal color.  A sable pup with "smut" on toes, and who will probably be dark sable once he blows the rest of his puppy coat--which is all faded out in color and fuzzy--  and the adult coat comes in.  Veronica

 Here is a pic of what the pup should look like grown up

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/516497.html

my female looked just like that as a pup, czech black sable.

I've never known any sable puppies other than when they were just whelped. So the light coloured fuzz is the puppy coat of a dark sable. Thanks!

Hi Aqua,

this is Theo Von Ryan, he went from dark to light to dark, it was very interesting to see,
he is my first sable dog.

 

 Theo is on the far left                                                                                

Then Theo at 13 weeks

Theo at 2 1/2 yrs.

I had no idea! There are things in life you can read about and hear discussed but they just don't sink in until you actually see them.

Thanks for the pictorial  :)

Very nice and normal looking pup if you ask me.The adult dogs on the website are awesome as well!!!!

Thank you for sharing the pics with us and that helps explain how a sable turns out

Aqua,

The sable puppies, little grey or brown "puff balls" tend to have a black stripe down the middle of the back and a black ring around the tail near the "root."  The black seems to spread down from those sites.  By the time that they are 2 or 3, the sables look nothing like the puppies that were brought home.

I had a B & T bitch puppy pull the same stunt on me.  She started out looking like a nice near  bi-color.  About 8 months old, the red strted spreading and by the time she was 16 months, she was a beautiful black and red saddle-marked bitch.  She looked nothing like her puppy photos, either.

Sables really are a surprise package.  They change, lighter then darker, then back again many times throughout their whole lives although the changes get more subtle as they get older.