A Colour Lesson

[Suki Wingy]

The two accepted colors for Dalmatians are black and white and liver and white. These are caused by a simple dominant vs. recessive gene. Black always masks liver. Two (black) dogs with the same phenotype (they look the same) can carry different genes.

It is noted as BB for a dog that can not pass on anything but black, and Bb for a dog that is capible of passing either a liver gene or a black gene. In dals it is usually called liver factored.
Liver is recessive and the dog must not carry and black genes in order for it to show.


Other recorded colors are lemon, orange, blue, brindle, and tricolor.
I know that blue is caused by a dilution of black and tricolor has to do with masking. Here is a website that covers the genetics better than I can:
http://geocities.com/~paisleydals/color.html
Lemon:



Blue:


Brindle:


Tricolor:
www.geocities.com/paisleydals/color2.html

[Husky_mom]

nice thread Jordan!!

It would take me forever, because I´m at work now but here´s a web that has tons of good descriptions of my fave........Siberian Husky of course!!

I´ll try get on my own here, but for now here´s a very ilustrative page, there are zillions of shades among shades........but you´ll get the idea

Siberian Husky colors

here just scroll a bit and you can click any color to see vaious pic of same color
same but has more pics