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by NatureDragon on 25 October 2019 - 20:10
I want to know what color is this bitch considered to be?
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=478582-jalta-eqidius
by Dawulf on 25 October 2019 - 23:10
Sable
by Entwerfer Haus on 26 October 2019 - 07:10
Red Sable
by NatureDragon on 27 October 2019 - 12:10
thanks i never saw one quite this color before, amazing how many different shades sable comes in
by Lunastar on 27 October 2019 - 21:10
Jalta Eqidius in indeed a sable, and that sable pattern on her is also called faded sable. Honza Okal is a "black" (dark) sable, while Tira Egidius is a saddle sable. There is also wolf sable (It's also called wild sable or wolf grey.) which is the sable pattern that actual wolves have and some working blood line GSDs have as well.
by Hundmutter on 28 October 2019 - 03:10
These are all 'popular' names / descriptions for colours, by the way, and bear little or no relation to definitions in the GSD Breed Standard, which has never attempted to go into such fine detail. We see more colour variants among Sable dogs nowadays because far more matings take place using two Sable parents (or parents carrying Sable genetics) than once was the case, because there used to be some reluctance to mate them to each other, in case there emerged something like the 'Merle effect' seen in other breeds and puppies' health was compromised. There seems little evidence for this, (there is no Merle in GSDs and the genetics are different) so more & more Sable to Sable matings - especially on the Working side of the Breed - have been conducted.
You can get paling in Sables too, of course, with a Sable bred to even a quite dark, heavily pigmented Saddle B&T partner; I used to have one bitch who was the product of such a pairing, who was a VERY washed-out looking Sable, compared to her dam (who was a 'normal' shade of grey sable). Such is the way the genes mix and fall. I thought it an ugly colour, personally, but maybe that was at least partly because I was unused to seeing it.
You can get paling in Sables too, of course, with a Sable bred to even a quite dark, heavily pigmented Saddle B&T partner; I used to have one bitch who was the product of such a pairing, who was a VERY washed-out looking Sable, compared to her dam (who was a 'normal' shade of grey sable). Such is the way the genes mix and fall. I thought it an ugly colour, personally, but maybe that was at least partly because I was unused to seeing it.
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