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 color?
Grizzle is a blend of red or wheaten intermixed in varying proportions with black, blue or liver.
What color is grizzle and tan?
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 is Domino's dog?
*- EA, g, and h are known as grizzle or domino. Their clearest expression is on tan-pointed dogs, but they also have a complex interaction with other genes including the K locus. *- e is recessive red, which turns all eumelanin in the coat to phaeomelanin.
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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