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by Xeph on 31 March 2016 - 04:03

My second pride and joy <3

Mikasa
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by Reliya on 31 March 2016 - 08:03

I have a question, and I hope I don't hijack your thread, but would you consider Mikasa a bi-color or melanistic black and tan? I'm thinking melanistic black and tan, but there are others who say otherwise when it comes to a dog of her coloring.

Either way, she's a beautiful dog. :)

by Xeph on 31 March 2016 - 09:03

I consider her bi color. I haven't really found anybody that can agree on what a bi color actually IS...I personally don't think it should be a color designation, especially since sables can be marked in this manner. I also haven't seen any real rhyme or reason to the pattern (you can breed two bi colors and still get saddled dogs). Genetically the color is still just black and tan when it comes down to it.

Because they change so much when they're young, and I'm not always 100%, she's registered as a bi color.

by Hundmutter on 31 March 2016 - 11:03

...and black & red / black & tan, or black & gold are all still
technically "Bi"colour, - because "bi"=two.

Well said, Xeph. Too much rubbish talked about this subject,
really, IMHO. A "bi-colour GSD" has always, for me, been a dog
with a preponderance of black over the amount of tan (or any
shade of brown through silver), generally like a "blanket" marked
B&R. Not too fussed about people's precise definitions of whether
the dog has or hasn't got a tan chest, or a tan 'vent', or tan 'eyebrows'
or black 'pencil marks' up its hocks, and so on. The original Standard
never recognised 'bi' as a separate colour or colour-pattern, so why do
"we" all want to ?

by bea on 31 March 2016 - 11:03

in German, there is no such thing as bicolor, they are black and tan, or black and red, you cannot distinguish between bicolor or not by the color on the pedigree

by Xeph on 31 March 2016 - 13:03

My post had a mistake. She's registered as a black and tan :)

by Hundmutter on 31 March 2016 - 15:03

Sort of figured that !

by Alamance on 31 March 2016 - 17:03

Such a happy looking dog!! Love the picture of her moving away from you. She looks happy even from the back and her feet in the air. And those ears! In the gaiting picture I think all four feet are off the ground!

by TIG on 31 March 2016 - 18:03

"My second pride and joy " as she should be. Very nice bitch and as noted one can tell she has a great attitude.

I especially appreciate the suspension (all 4 ft off the ground) she shows. I had begun to think we had lost that in the breed. For all the gaiting show dogs do, you rarely see a dog with true suspension these days. Course some of us old timers always said that suspension was as much about mind and attitude as structure.

Kudos. Can you please post a link to her pedigree page.

by Nans gsd on 31 March 2016 - 22:03

Very very pretty girl; BOL with her... Nan

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