Brindle GSD in Alabama, USA??? - Page 1

I was browsing Puppyfind.com and came across an ad for GSD female puppies in Alabama, USA that appear to be from a brindle sire.  I've inserted his picture.  Any insight?  I thought the brindle was a long gone color in GSD.

looks like a normal black/red dog to me.  If the GSD is brindle, chances are good it's not purebred.

B+T :)

I see the brindle. its not very prominent, but it is there.

I see the brindle coloring as well, I am surprised to see that

Molly is correct.

And that dog is blk and tan   , but there is another parent somewhere?  Black and tans have what is called a skunk stip which appears after they are matured...some people call it another name...but not brindle..

sounds like another novice selling pups

No such thing as a brindle german shepherd.... Either sable or bi or blk /tan or black, white or gold..Liver, Blue, black and silver,  Gray or red sable or black and cream;    there were gold shepherds and a few still running around.,  not acceptable for standard or breeding programs.

Brindle dogs are boxers, great danes, etc,

Actually, to my knowledge, there was once Brindle GSD's. I am not saying this particular dog is a purebred, I have never meet the dog. He could be a GSd/Dutchie mix or something. But, if you look at Sable GSd's, and I mean, TRUE Dark Sable's, some of the Black Sables, you can actually make out a brindle pattern. I have a Black Sable female that I can see the stripes come trough on her head and had a male once that had some stripes like brindling. I will try to find the info on the Brindle GSD's and get it back on here if no one else does first.

Tina

as per Linda Shaw's website

10. Brindle B&T
I can't resist mentioning the brindle, which was one of the founding patterns of the breed and seems to have become extinct. The brindling gene affected the tan ground, so that B&T's and bicolours showed a dark striping or marbling (the same effect seen in brindle boxers) over the tan which was not at all unattractive. I wouldn't hazard to guess what a brindle marked sable would look like. Hopefully, if the pattern somehow reappeared, it would not be discarded as atypical.

Here is a picture of a Brindle German Shepherd taken from Brian Wooton's book on the GSD dealing with origins. More information will be available soon.

That is not a brindle but a diluted sable