BLUE EYE SABLE FEMALE GSD

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by Bucko on 15 February 2009 - 22:02

If you combine the liver and blue dilute genes -- but you need to double up on BOTH -- you could get a dog the color of an isabella dobermann or a silver gray weimaraner. (Compare a blue weimaraner -- missing the double liver -- with the silver gray, which is double dilute on both liver and blue sites -- and you will get an idea of just how light the gsd with both would be.) If you do this on a black dog, you'd get a silver gray dog. If you do this on a sable, it would presumably look even lighter. Very faded.

Anyway, the weim standard says the eye is light amber to gray-blue. The eye in a blue sable gsd would be DARKER than that, darker than the eye of a silver-gray weimaraner.

Spooky looking -- maybe a deterrent effect could be achieved?

by jc.carroll on 16 February 2009 - 15:02

I think it was Catahoula that went into the mix to throw such ice-blue eyes. I knew a dog like that rott, no husky in him. And when you saw him barking at you with those eyes, the effect was pretty unsettling *grins*

Either way, if I saw a GSD with eyes like that, I'd love to get it and train in for sport, if only for the sheer intimidation factor those freaky eyes would give the decoy during a bark-and-hold.

(ps. Weim eyes, and chocolate lab eyes, can be so light as to be almost yellow. But the degree of darkness in the coat, at least of the choco-lab, does not seem to indicate how dark or light the eyes will be when it matures. Everything I know makes me quite certain those are two totally different genetic traits that tend to be based on breed-type, rather than coat color.)

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