black and silver - Page 1

Meant to say black and silver...phone sucks for posting. Anyway, it's advertised as a color you don't see often. Does that make it better?

No.

You know, those rare colours are worth a LOT of money!

You should buy some livers and blues too!

Oh...I forgot! Livers are now called CHOCOLATE GSDs! 

Oh, yes, ABSOLUTELY, they're much, much better than those plain old colors that conform to the breed standard!  Even better yet are the red and white ones--you literally NEVER see those around, so they're, like, the top of the tops!


[Dammit...where IS that SARCASM font???  I keep looking for it, but can never find it when it's needed!!!]


Seriously, though--no, black and silver isn't 'better' than black and tan, or sable, or solid black, or bi-color...  While it technically fits the breed standard, black & silver is considered to be a 'washed out' coloration; it's a black & tan that's being affected by one of the genes that cause dilution or muting of the actual basic color.  Coat color and coat marking genetics get pretty complex when you start looking at it in depth. 

That said, there's plenty of people who really, really like the black and silver, and others who favor black and cream dogs, very often because that's the coloration of a GSD they had as a child, or that lived down the street from them and was a really, really cool dog and they want THAT kind of dog again.  But neither of these color schemes are going to be readily found in the European lines, for the most part, because the breeders are actively selecting against producing those paler coats.

i love the RARE ALL BLACK GERMAN SHEPERD adds or the rare sable adds. quite comical imo.

Okay....I was on the white stone website and the black and silver is a male puppy that Callie says is a color you don't see often, that they have only had a handful over the years...
I think my byb 1 year old is actually a black and silver; her mom was a white gsd....I much prefer the black/red, myself... .
guess it's easier to sell something if people think it's rare or unusual?

I had a black gsd once; actually got in an argument with a guy that said I didn't know what German shepherds really look like, when I said she was a purebred.

Strangely, everybody recognizes Karma ( my free byb 1 year old gsd) as a German shepherd, but they think Spunky (my $1,500 black/red gsd) is a mix....

My Shiloh shepherd was black and cream. It is associated with the white gene in her ancestry, in her case from a dog named Hoofprint Orbit.

I'll be darned if I can find an explanation of how this works, because everyone swears the white gene does NOT produce paler colours!

I did find a website that says if white GSD breeders want whiter dogs, they will breed to black and silvers. [shrug]