Puppies are either black & tan (the body coat is black with tan legs) or grizzle and tan (dark body coat and lighter coloured legs). Black & tan puppies will end up being blue & tan as adults, as they grow, white, silvery grey hairs develop in the black coat, giving it a bluish colour.
What Colour is Grizzle?
Grizzle Color Grizzle is a color pattern that appears as mixed hair on the dog with no discernible pattern. The color appears blended together, making it look like just one color until you examine it closely. Grizzle coloring may mix black hair with some tan or brown hairs, or white with black, making it appear grey.
What is Grizzle in dog coat?
Grizzle coat color, also known as domino, is a coat pattern which is a mix of eumelanin and pheomelanin. This phenotype is caused by Eg gene on E locus, also called Extension. ... Like that, this phenotype is Saluki dog breed is known as grizzle, but it is called domino in the Afghan Hound breed.
What Colour is brindle?
Brindle typically appears as black stripes on a red base. The stripes are eumelanin (black/brown pigment) and the base is phaeomelanin (red/yellow pigment), so the appearance of those pigments can be changed by any of the genes which usually affect them.
What does Domino mean Afghan Hound?
As far as we know, what's known as sable in a Borzoi is known as domino in the Afghan Hound, so named after a noted show dog of the 1950s, Tanjores Domino. That same pattern is called grizzle in the Saluki, and both domino and grizzle are caused by the same gene interaction.
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