Color question?

by Travel time on 21 April 2009 - 01:04

Can you tell if a puppy will grow up to be a saddle or a blanket back?

by luvdemdogs on 26 April 2009 - 06:04

Here's another color question:

Is there a name for this color?

Is there a specific name for this type of coloration on the face? I love the white cheeks and eyebrow area.

Sure is a pretty dog.

by yellowrose of Texas on 26 April 2009 - 06:04

Not in my list of colors.? Molly, where are you?? I will let her tell ya.
YOu might not like me if I speak.. BACK TO THE EMU PEN FOR NOW.

by yellowrose of Texas on 26 April 2009 - 06:04

Answer to poster of thread. NO. It is a toss up..If you know the lineage and it is not a first litter, you may assume. A lot of skunk stripping, or ticking can creep into the back, and also the red coloring spreads more on some and patterns the bigger regions where a saddle may be shorter than the sire or dam . You have years of genetics behind each side, and once in a while one or two of m

by eichenluft on 26 April 2009 - 06:04

saddleback vs blanket back - look to the parents - also pups that will have more brown "shadings" as in saddle-back will have more shading around face, behind ears, and on legs as young pups than blanket-backs will. Blanket-backs normally resemble bicolor for a while until they lose their toemarks and get the tan shadings up the legs.

the picture is a very pretty dog and color/markings - I would call it collie or husky mix color/markings. I don't think this is a purebred GSD.

molly

by Travel time on 26 April 2009 - 13:04

Thanks to YR and Molly.

by Mystere on 26 April 2009 - 14:04

I agree, having had now TWO bi-color bitch puppies who turned. The first was half showe lines and turned into a saddle at 8 months. The second has a sable sire and B &T dam. Repeat litter and the others are sable or b &T. The tan is clearly "creeping" on the rear legs and I believe she will end up a blanket. I also agree with Molly: that dog is a mix, probably Husky.

by Mystere on 26 April 2009 - 14:04

I agree, having had now TWO bi-color bitch puppies who turned. The first was half showe lines and turned into a saddle at 8 months. The second has a sable sire and B &T dam. Repeat litter and the others are sable or b &T. The tan is clearly "creeping" on the rear legs and I believe she will end up a blanket. I also agree with Molly: that dog appears to be a mix, probably Husky. But, I have seen BYB gsds with similar markings.

by Mystere on 26 April 2009 - 14:04

I agree, having had now TWO bi-color bitch puppies who turned. The first was half showe lines and turned into a saddle at 8 months. The second has a sable sire and B &T dam. Repeat litter and the others are sable or b &T. The tan is clearly "creeping" on the rear legs and I believe she will end up a blanket.

by pod on 26 April 2009 - 14:04

Lovdemdogs, that's a wolf sable without facial mask. Wolf sable is the correct term for the pattern known as just "sable" in the GSD and when this appears without the mask, as in your dog, there often tends to be lightening throughout the coat.

The dark mask that is usually present in the GSD obscures the facial markings and this will occur in a litter when both parents are carriers of non mask...it's inherited as a recessive. A bicolour without mask would have similar facial pattern to this dog, a saddle probably much lighter.

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