Know your dog coats and colours? Come this way...

[zarzamora]

So I'm pretty clueless about dogs and their coats... I can usually recognise merle and such, but some I just don't have a clue! I'd like my doggies to have their coats recorded in their info... so I have a proposition for anyone who thinks they can help me.

I will offer to either colour a litter for you (using your own bed), or give you 1 of my pups from one of my own litters for each 3 breeds you go through and accurately list their coats for me. some breeds I only have a couple of, some I have more. For anyone who's willing to tackle my spaniels (cockers) I'll do 2 litters, or offer 2 puppies to- since there are so many...


The following breeds need doing:
Cocker Spaniels: 44- ponymama
Springer Spaniels: 7- springacres
King Charles Cavalier: 10
English Setters: 8 (soon to be 12)- springacres
Mala's: 12- ryuu
Afghans: 5- ryuu
Border Collies : 12- springacres
NSDTR: 8
Sammies: 6
Cresteds: 12- ponymama
Ladrador: 5
iggies: 14 (5 pups)- ponymama
Poms Ryuu
Elkhounds:


Anyone interested?  

[Ryuukokoro]

I don't need anything in return! I'm not sure if my info is 100% correct, lol. Also in the dog world it can get confusing when you go from breed to breed... for example a bluish sheepdog with black patches is called merle, but a bluish dachshund with black patches is called dappled. Same gene, just different breeders call it different things. And with some breeds, a white dog with black patches is called parti-colored (like poodles) and sometimes it's called harlequin (like with Great Danes). But this is what I think...


Malamutes:
Name Me: sable with white
Tyson: tri-color (the official word for a black, tan, and white)
Casha: red ticked (hard to tell, looks kinda fantasy-ish)
Freddie: sable with white
Miko: golden brindle with white (technically fantasy, brindles don't come in gold lol)
Ariel: tri-color (but with red in place of black, so maybe call it red tri-color?)
Tika: Blue merle with white
Lola: red with white
Celeste: blue with white
Spirit: black and white (also called bi-colored, or parti)
Sasha: tan with white
Sira: Sable with white
Indira: sable with white
Maisie: dark sable with white


Collies:
Sammy: red merle with white
Nissa: tri-color with parti


Poms:
Bonnie: blue merle with tan
Gabanna: fawn
Dolce: cream
Rex: black and tan
Holly: sable and white
Tinkerbell: blue merle


Chi's:
Dusty: red and tan
Sammy: bi-colored red and white
Keira: tri-color


Afghans:
Delano: blue merle with tan and white
Shantih: tri-color
Kaila: blue merle with tan and white
Cora: blue merle with tan and white
Suki: dark sable with white


Things to remember about dog coats: Like horses and cats, the primary colors are black and red. Dilute black and you get blue or gray. Dilute red and you get cream/fawn/biscuit/offwhite/whatever you want to call it. And like cats and horses, white is a modifier that covers the other color in certain parts. So a white dog with black patches is actually a black dog with a loooot of white modifier covering almost all of its fur.

Oh, what is sable: Sable is when you have a piece of fur that changes color. It's lighter brown at the tips, for example, and darker brown or black at the base of the hair, near the skin. Obviously that is hard to express in coloring digital dogs, so usually if I see a Kennel dog with various shades of brown on its body, I assume the artist was trying to express the shade-shifting appearance of sable fur.

What is merle: Merle is when you have a dilution gene that is only hitting some of the fur. So when you see a blue merle, you're seeing a black dog where only some of the fur is being diluted to blue/gray. A red merle is a red dog where the dilution is making some areas lighter red (or cream).


At least, I think this info is all correct. ^^;; Please feel free to correct me, anyone!

[springacres]

Border Collies:
Oily - I would have to say light red tricolor with odd markings (but it's hard to tell as I have never seen or heard of a dog with that coat color before.)
Tibalt - blue tricolor
Knight - black tri
Lex - blue brindle
Toby - black and white bicolor
Tyler - black and tan speckled
Milly - black tri
Sandee - red and white bicolor
Nalla - black and tan speckled
Lilly - blue merle and white
Nikita - blue and tan
Seren - red and white bicolor

Springer Spaniels:
Toby - blue brindle
Picasso - red and white
Milly - red merle and white (I think; hard to tell)
India - black tricolor
Maisie - chocolate brindle (again, hard to tell, but that's my best guess)
Anna - blue and tan speckled
China - blue merle

English Setters:
Peter: Chocolate speckled tricolor
Max: Chocolate merle and white
Emily: Black speckled tricolor
Rose: Chocolate speckled tricolor
Lilly: Chocolate speckled bicolor
Naia: Red speckled
Tilda: Black speckled
Beezie: Blue merle and white

[PonyMama]

Iggies:
Cassius: Tri Color
Colby: Brown Tri Color
Bruiser: Blue Roan
Pablo: tri Color
Comet: Grey and white
Contessa: Black and white
Tassia: Messy Tri (like her mommy)
Lolita: Brown (tan) and White
Nova: Cream and white

(these ones I am less certain about a couple, but this is what I would assume they are)
Cresties:
Nuka: Light Blue Merle
Rex: Brown and White
Timmy: Brown and Pink
Rex II: Sable
Reggie: Brown Spotted
Toby: White and Tan
Tom: Brown and White
Thomas: Brown and WHite
Kesha: Sable
Tish: Red Merle
Talloolah: Black, Pink and White
Tink: Brown Merle, or Apricot merle

[PonyMama]

Cockers:
Archie: Dilute Tri
Micky: Sable and White
Anika: Red and White, with Red and Tan Ticking (this is what I can guess by another dog with much going on)
Grady: Blue Roan
Sparticus: Black and White Parti
Valentino: red and white Tri
Harvey: Black
Hero: Chocolate and White Tri
Jasper:  Blue Roan, Closed Marking
Troy: Chocolate and White Parti
Duke: Buff and White
Achilles: Sable
Solo: Chocolate Merle Closed Marking
Gabriel: Chocolate and White Tri
Roman: Open Marked Parti
Georgie: Sable
Flynn:  Black
max: Red Merle
Rosie: red Merle
Lucinda: red
Starla: Red and White Parti
Alexissa: Red and White Parti
Laila: Chocolate and White Parti with Ticking
Gemma: Black and Tan


WTK's Red Lily: Red and White Tri   
Holly: Chocolate and White Parti with ticking
WTK's Cinnamon: Open Marked Parti
WTK's Monroe: Blue Roan
May Belle:   Chocolate and White Parti with ticking
Rowyn: Red and Buff parti (not really such thing but closest to that I can guess)   
Maisie: Red and White Parti with ticking
Aurora: Blue Merle   
Ariel: Black and White Tri with ticking
Tally: Chocolate and White Tri
Bea: Chocolate Sable
Celeste: Chocolate and White Tri   
Lacey: Dilute Tri with Ticking   
Lucy: Red Parti with ticking
Erin: Red Parti (with dilute?)
Carina: Red and Chocolate Tri   
Nikita: Black and Tan Tri   
Domino: Black and White Tri   
Sasha: Blue and Red Merle

ETA: I think that's it

[zarzamora]

eeeeeee you guys are completely amazing! Thank you so much!! Please pm me with details of what you would like in return, a litter colouring or a pup =D

[PonyMama]

You have SOOOOO many cockers, so going through them and trying to match correctly is taking the longest, but I am having fun and learning.  Most yours are considered Parti, but I am trying to grasp the other markings (ones that are mostly black with like the snip, is considered a solid *shrugs*)

ETA: Let me know if I missed someone, I think I got them all, but it is late.  I will PM you in the morning, I would love a litter of puppies (adult images only) but not too sure which ones yet

[springacres]

*tackles a few more*
Elkhounds -
Elliot: gray sable
Jezabelle: red and white ticked

Labs -
Lucas: red sable
Logan: ticked tricolor (looks like a fantasy coat to me)
Toffee: cream
Sally: cream ticked
Zara: black tricolor

NSDTRs -
Taz: blue merle tricolor
Tanner: red merle bicolor
Solstice: dark red bicolor (love the maple leaf shape on his chest)
Layla: red bicolor
Tally: cream bicolor
Tiera: red bicolor
Blondie: red bicolor

[PonyMama]

the last two breeds are slightly harder due to lack of actual coat colors available, so I had to go by another breeds colors (I went by the Cockers because I had looks at so many yesterday)


Sammies:
Samoyeds have 3 acceptable colors according to the standard: white, cream, and biscuit.

Polar   : Blue Merle
Garneyisdonelet    (M): Sable
Fabrice: White with Gold Brindle
Garneyisdonelet (F): Red Merle
India: White and Cream
MPKs Muddy Water: Brown Merle


King Charles Cavalier:
The breed has four recognized colours: Black and Tan, Blenheim, Ruby and Tri Color

Harry: red and Brown Tri
Harvey: Blue Merle Tri with Tan
Tommy:  Blenheim (rich chestnut markings on a pearly white background)
Poppy: Tri Color
Charlotte: Blue Merle ? (this is my best guess)
Daisy: Gold Brindle
Lola: Tri Color
Ritz Cracker: Sable   
Sally: Ruby Tri ? (this is my best guess)
Harriet: red merle (this is my best guess)

[springacres]

Almost forgot to respond - I'd love a pup or two from your litters zaz

[zarzamora]

sure hun- let me know if you see a pup you like and I'll let you know if it's available x