What Color Is My Puppy? - Page 2

Will end up about the same colour as mine, is my guess.   My pup was very similar to that at that age-with fluff.  Her dam was a grey sable; father, pure black. She has bl/reds in the ped. on mothers side.   Your pup doesn't look to have the black on legs though.

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 16 months

He was super dark when I bought him at 8 weeks. The breeder said that he was gonna be a black sable but as he has gotten older he has gotten lighter and is now very red. The choke collar is only for training. He has a regular thick black collar that he wears when he's not in training.

wow Danica, what a handsome boy you have!!! he looks just lke my pup Jake.

Please, Danica, do yourself a favor and hang the choke chain in the closet for a while. Even tho I dont like to start training pups that early, I understand that other people do. Yet a choke collars purpose is to give corrections. A pup this age does not understand corrections in this way. Everything, and I mean absolutely everything, is positive reward with food for the correct behavior. If you have to keep him on leash while training, your flat buckle collar is defenitely sufficient enough. The most important part to train at this age is the focus and attraction to you, nothing else. Once he learns you are his most important thing in the world, everything else will fall into place, and you wont even have a problem with him pulling on the leash. This is not to tell you what to do, those are words of advice because I care.

Red Sable -- absolutely.

Get rid of the dang choke collar -- much, much too young.   (Unless you're a 90 yo weakling.)

You don't know how to train if you are using a choke collar on a puppy during training.  Please get some experienced help.

Oh, Red Sable, you girl looks so much like the young boy I lost.  He looked the same as a pup too, love the coated sables. 

danica your breeder lied to you. This will not be a black sable.  Typical red sable and once he looses his puppy fur he will start getting darker. He will get progressivly darker year after year and at around 3 or 4 will be his "true" darkness. He will get a tad darker year by year for the rest of his life after that age but not enough to notice. Good looking dog though

at the stage of where your dog starts getting older there is no more "red sable" or anything like that. I will say IMO niether are black sables too many light markings. I would say those are really dark sables.

A lot of true black sables are found in Czech/DDR idk what bloodlines your dogs but its irrelavant because they have too many light markings for a true black sable. You do have very dark dogs though. Another way to get deep rich color back in your lines is breed solid black dogs to sables and after a few generations you will have very good dark color like your dogs.