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Need dog photos to use as examples

I will be starting the articles on dog colors hopefully this evening. I have no photos. If you have photos that I can use as examples please email them to me or post them to the dog forum. http://canine.colorgenetics.info/forum

Daylene Alford Sun, 04/17/2011 - 11:35
[quote]Yeah I knew that, the Rat Terrier got there black and tan color from the Manchester Terrier, one of the original dogs they were bred from. What I was wondering is if the Sable was Agouti? I think it is.[/quote] This question? There are 4 known agouti alleles in dogs and more may be discovered. They are in order of domiance ay, aw, at, and a. Like horses if a dog is ee agouti won't express but its more complicated than in horses because there are 3 extension alleles in dogs that allow the expression of agouti and there is also dominant black. ay is fawn and sable, aw is wild type and causes a "wolf" type coat, at is black and tan and a is ressesive black. Hope that helped a bit.

Daylene Alford Sun, 04/17/2011 - 16:30
It looks like your boy would be atat because he displays the black and tan phenotype diluted at the D locus. Rat Terriers don't have recessive black do they?

rodeoratdogs Sun, 04/17/2011 - 16:46

Ummmmm I'm still trying to understand it all myself, I know they have recessive black/tan this website explains it all and then some.
http://www.1st-writer.com/ColorGenetics…
My sable/tan/white female always has black/tan/white puppies even thought the sire is choc/tan/white. I don't think brown or choc can produce black but sable can.

Yes my boy is black/tan/white with D diluted.

and there is more about it in the lesson #3 page.
http://www.1st-writer.com/ColorGenetics…

Heather Sun, 04/17/2011 - 16:49

In reply to by Daylene Alford

a/y is red/sable
a/t is black tan or bi-colored
a/w is similar to a/t but more diluted across body as seen in hounds more often

a/y can carry a recessive a/t but a/t is always a/t a/t or it "twin" a/w

B is solid black but b the liver dilution represented as bb , Bb is non liver carrying liver color and BB is non carrier for liver

E is many different things, black masking, brindle and something else that slips my mind...

T is ticking

S is white patterning, s/p s/i s/w , s/w is the most extreme white pattern i believe , id have to pull out my books , been a long time since ive visited this in my mind lol

M are the mereles and C is the chinchillia? isabella? I think dont quote me... I have a great book called Genetics of the dog and another by shelia atter and dr padgett when I use to read alot about dog genetics.

There are 2 forms of black in dogs and there is where i stopped following geentics ...

Heather Sun, 04/17/2011 - 16:51

In reply to by Daylene Alford

[quote=rodeoratdogs]Ummmmm I'm still trying to understand it all myself, I know they have recessive black/tan this website explains it all and then some.
http://www.1st-writer.com/ColorGenetics…
My sable/tan/white female always has black/tan/white puppies even thought the sire is choc/tan/white. I don't think brown or choc can produce black but sable can.

[/quote]

your female is then a/y a/t , she could only have liver pups if she was Bb, but she must be BB, all the pups from her and the sire however are Bb since he gave them one dose of liver.

rodeoratdogs Sun, 04/17/2011 - 16:54

In reply to by Daylene Alford

[quote=rodeoratdogs]Ummmmm I'm still trying to understand it all myself, I know they have recessive black/tan this website explains it all and then some.
http://www.1st-writer.com/ColorGenetics…
My sable/tan/white female always has black/tan/white puppies even thought the sire is choc/tan/white. I don't think brown or choc can produce black but sable can.

Yes my boy is black/tan/white with D diluted.

and there is more about it in the lesson #3 page.
http://www.1st-writer.com/ColorGenetics…]

Woops this site says big D is full expression no dilution and the d is diluted so my puppy would be black/white/tan little dd right?

http://www.1st-writer.com/ColorGenetics…

Krickette Sun, 04/17/2011 - 17:36

Here's my neighbor's dogs:
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Izzie and Teddy

This is a mutt that showed up at my friend's barn:
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Brooks the GSP and Beaux the BC
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Brooks:
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(Brooks has beautiful light eyes)

Beaux:
[img]http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-…]
[img]http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-…]
(he has VERY dark eyes)

Abbie (mom) and Beaux (son):
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Abbie about to launch:
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Abbie's eyes are "normal"
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Krickette Sun, 04/17/2011 - 18:43

Yup! He's super awesome! He's got super awesome bloodlines, too, but he's a tad gunshy and not as focused as he should be haha

rabbitsfizz Mon, 04/18/2011 - 12:59

I started my crusade against docking (cropping has been illegal here for 60 years+ ) single handed and basically, about 55 years ago!
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single footstep.
I would not have a Dobe that was docked, that was the end of it.
Now, I admit it is more than a dislike- I was traumatised as a nine year old (if you have never watched a six week old pup docked with a hunting knife, believe me, you have missed nothing) so it has become an obsession. The latest scientific research indicates that, far from not feeling pain, neonates actually feel pain more acutely, but lack the ability to express it understandably. Can you imagine what those helpless puppies go through, unable to rationalise or express pain, whilst breeders happily say they do not feel it?
If you truly care about your dogs you would not condone this outdated and barbaric practice. I am not certain about the actual amount of pain a puppy being docked feels, I just know that I do not feel that subjecting an animal to [i]any[/i] unnecessary pain is acceptable.
As to cropping- it is beyond me how anyone can bear to even look at it, let alone do it.
If you want a short tailed, prick eared dog- BREED ONE.
Which is why I call it "topiary"
You simply do not cut bits off a dog for absolutely NO reason at all because you prefer it that way.
It was hard, when I started, finding a breeder of good dogs that would leave the tail on, but I found one. Then another, now there are many.
It was strange, when I first started showing my dogs (we, unlike your clubs in the "land of the free" have never been prevented from showing undocked dogs of any breed) to be the only one in the ring with a natural tail. Then slowly, others came along. Then I even got a few wins!
Now docking is banned and the breed clubs say the number of dogs being registered has dropped. This is a bad thing how???

OK, this has been a public service broadcast on behalf of the Anti Docking Association, I thank you for listening!

TheRedHayflinger Mon, 04/18/2011 - 13:09

that is why my Australian Shepherd still has her "butt banner". She was born with it, why remove it?

Krickette Mon, 04/18/2011 - 16:32

Hehe, thanks Audrey!! I love him SO much! I think the only reason I don't think he looks retarded is because when his tail was cut they left it long. It's desirable to have a white tip, so they wanted to make sure he got that. I don't understand why they would cut in the first place, but oh well. I mean, I loved watching my english setters point with their beautiful tails! Now dogs are getting trained to point with their tails vertical, which makes it easier to see, but I still love that old school pointer look...
I want a corgi one day but I hate no tailed butt wigglers.... I don't know if they are born that way or docked or what though...

Crias Tue, 04/19/2011 - 13:57

Recessive black looks exactly the same as dominant black in Belgian Sheepdogs, though the only recessive that I know of that I have met had very dark eyes (but some Dominants do too!)