Bi-black
(Whitney, a rescue girl)
A Bi-Black dog has just black and white on his body...no
tan. The white can be anywhere, and vary from a lot to one spot. A bi-black
has no tan at all. |
Bi-Blue
(Birkie, a rescue boy)
A Bi-Blue has no tan on his body...just blue (gray really) black
and white. The blue, black and white can be anywhere and to any degree. A
Bi-Blue may or may not have blue eyes. |
Sable
(Ricky, a rescue boy)
A sable usually will have 3 colors (brown, black and white) Many
people mistakenly call this a Tri. It is not. This boy is a sable. |
Double Merle
(Ben, a rescue boy)
The result of breeding 2 dogs with a merle gene.
These dogs are usually deaf, and some are blind. These dogs may have blue eyes. |
Tri-Color
(Angel, a rescue girl)
A Tri-color dog is mostly black. It will have tan on it's
body somewhere. Any tan hair on his body makes a Tri instead of a Bi-Black.
|
Blue Merle
"Candy" is a rescue girl.
A Blue Merle must have tan on it's body to be a blue merle. No tan
makes it a Bi Blue. Neither the Blue Merle nor the Bi Blue have the face mask
the Sable does. |
Sable
"Trudy", one of my dogs."
She is a blond sable. |
Color Headed White
This is Sheyanne, a rescue girl. She is a Color
Headed White. (CHW) She is mostly white, with
the head of a Tri-Color dog. This is not at all the same as a double
merle. A CHW will have normal colored heads and will have spots of color on
the body, but be mostly white. |
Tri-Color
Lady, a rescue girl. |
Blue Merle
Dusty is a very muscular
rescue boy. Dusty was renamed Sydney and has gone on to win many Agility awards. |
Sable
"Buster"....a rescue dog
This is another variation of a Sable Sheltie. A
shaded sable is still a sable, but with black tips on the coat. If you look at the
roots of the hair, you will see sable. Note the familiar mask of a sable on his
face. |
Double Merle
"Fran" is a rescue girl
This is a double merle
(white sheltie) this
girl surprisingly was not
deaf.
|
Tri Color
Duncan is a Tri Colored rescue boy |
 Blue Merle
(Fiona is a rescue girl)
This is a seriously obese rescue Sheltie. A blue Merle may have
any amount of any of the 4 colors: black, gray, white and tan. |
Sable & White
"Gator" is a nicely marked
sable and white rescue boy. |
Double Merle
"Silence" is a double merle. She
is deaf. |
