Is she or isn't she? Bi -color> - Page 1

Ok experts, is she or isn't she?

That is a difficult one, I would say not but I'll be watching what the knowlegable members will vote !!!

Ibrahim

I say yes. 

Love the top right pose, is that hard to teach?

  Can you enlarge the picture showing her paws?  and side of face better.?

   I would say   YES  she is BI

    I would love to see her    BACK END?

   The pup pic  makes no difference..Many a pup is born with little marking and then by 8 months old here comes all the red on sides of face ,
 

    IF the adult picture were larger and there is not red on face except the dots over eyses

    YOUR dog is a  BI COLOR

  However if she has patches of red or tan on both sides of face bigger than palm size she is  black and tan


    YR


 

Can you also please tell us whether she has tan/gray on her under (belly) ?
Ibrahim

From the pictures here I would say she is Bi

Well I am in a motel right now and not at home with her. I called the boss and she says that Stormys underside is black except for her armpit areas. I don't really know how to blow up any of the pictures that I have. I will try to get better pics when I get home, and upload them.  She will be a year old Oct. 11th, so I would think she is old enough to figure it out.

I think it's really close. But I say no. No pencil markings on front paws and I don't see black tar heels. I maybe wrong, need a few better pics to be certain.    Pete

One more thing, would like to see her hind (as YR said) and her upper chest/neck area.  Pete

I've been wanting to say this for years, so I guess I finally will:

Pencil markings can be very subtle to practically non-existant. Former rottweiler-fanatic turned GSD entusiast here. Seen many a rott that doesn't have noticable pencil-markings, and barely any tarheels. I have also seen rotts with rather lighter-than-black underfur, and a very subtle reddish tint behind the ears. Obviously, this isn't desirable.

I use the vent to tell bicolour from black: tan vent means a bicolour; black vent means a black dog.

I've never seen a rott with anything other than a black belly, however. The dogs I would classify as melanistic blanket/saddleback GSDs have all had either a greyish belly, or tan that marches from their stockings and covers their belly.



Genetic bicolours have a belly like this (not my dog; image found via Google). Note, you can't see pencil markings on the toes