Strange Dog Color (long and confusing)

Question:

Actually, not the same as some of the horse color breeds.  With them if you have a horse from non-registered parents that fits the color otherwise you can apply for a registration – even a breeding registration.  Sort of like getting an AKC limited registration that allows offspring to be registered as that breed if they fit the breed description.  They can add to their gene pool that way.  There also isn’t the stigma with horses if your horse isn’t "purebred" or "registered" – a good horse is a good horse.  It should be that way with dogs.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> But we already do. > Dalmatian is a pure "color breed". Belgian Shepherds are classified as > different breeds (and even no crossing between them in some countries) > purely due color and coat type. White Shepherd is mostly a color variant of > GSD. American Cocker is kind of divided in three (?) color breeds. Mini > Schnauzers are rather far on their way to be divided in four different > variants, and just by color. Great Danes are divided more or less in three > groups, again just by color.

Response:

> Sean is a rough collie.  The black does not go all the way > through:  it’s just on the tips of the hairs.  Each hair is > a tan color at the roots. > http://www.meadows.pair.com/sean.html – he can be seen here.

That’s because Sean is a sable Collie, not a tri. Purty boy, though! Christy with two tri pooches and soon maybe a sable baby

Response:

>> Wouldn’t it be fun to > have some color breeds in dogs the same way we do with horses (like Paints, > Pintos, Appaloosa, and so on)? >I think that’s one of the many (many, many, many) reasons I love >Chihuahuas.  *grins*  They come in pretty much any colour.

All colorations are allowed in Siberian huskies, too.  I can’t imaging culling a nice dog just because it didn’t have "correct color." Laura of NC If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.  -Catherine Aird-

Response:

In Elkhounds, we don’t "cull" an occassional red elkhound. We place them, spayed or neutered. The elkhound used to come in reds and browns and blacks. The elkhound became a color breed when they divided the Black elkhound (BUHUND), Red Elkhound (Somewhere between  when the Swedish and Lundelund diverged) and the more common Gr

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