Not Whippet Colours

[moonlake]

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Hi all you breeders and people with stud dogs, please, please could you keep to whippet colours when registering the puppies. Am currently inputting the July - September registrations on the db and am finding more and more puppies registered with non-whippet colours. I know the standard says "any colour" but there are usual ways of describing them so the person reading can imagine what they are. I have no idea what a "brown" whippet looks like and what would you make of a litter where some are brown, some tan and some fawn??? Or some grey and some blue?

If you are not sure what the colours are, the basics are fawn, blue, black with either brindle or white. "particolour" needs another colour with it - e.g. fawn particolour. Combinations of these will adequately describe any puppy you breed. Puppies change colour in an astonishing way and the blue masks on fawns have generally disappeared by the time they have been in their new homes a month. All those fancy colours you get in a drop down menu on line are for other breeds -poodles are apricot but whippets are not, staffies are pied, and as for isabella, please let's not go there.

Different shades of fawn or brindle (silver,,gold, red) are OK but if you are not sure, please stick to basics. The KC may well ask you for proof if your colour combinations seem genetically unlikely (and I don't have room on the db for some of them!).

Gay

www.moonlake.co.uk

 

[TC]

I know this is a very serious topic Gay, but I am sure that either Caroline or Hannah will be able to fill you in on what a 'brown' whippet looks like (w00t) 8) :- "

TCx

 

[alfyn]

They obviously don't have much knowledge of whippets if they don't even know the colours,so therefore,imo,shouldn't be breeding ......think i'd better duck for cover now o :- "

Ermm yes,i agree with TC,Caroline knows what a "brown" whippet is :teehee:

 

[k4tie-d]

They obviously don't have much knowledge of whippets if they don't even know the colours,so therefore,imo,shouldn't be breeding ......think i'd better duck for cover now   o   :- "
Ermm yes,i agree with TC,Caroline knows what a "brown" whippet is   :teehee:    

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im sure there is a brown whippet one K9 trac's Fudge, he is brown, i think :blink: maybe more chocolate, but then thats a Lab :- "

Ruby and Star were registered as Tan with White markings, i had to pay £20 to get it changed to Fawn

 

[Juley]

Lily is ever hopeful of a "pink" colour being allowed! Maybe we should stick to Striped or Non-Striped! :thumbsup:

 

[saraquele]

and dont forget the tiger stiped ones for those numbskulls who dont know what brindle is :- "

 

[Seraphina]

and dont forget the tiger stiped ones for those numbskulls who dont know what brindle is  :- "

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What is important is the colour dog in genetic terms. Looking back, when there is nobody anymore who actually knows the dog, we need to know if a dog was fawn, brindle or black/blue. We need to know if he was full pigmented or blue dilute, and if he had white.

My last litter black, in fact there were 5 different shades of black, from deepest blue black, black with slight slate tinge to one with brown tinge. But genetically they are all black, they would all be capable of producing black pups, and that is what counts.

 

[moonlake]

and dont forget the tiger stiped ones for those numbskulls who dont know what brindle is  :- "

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What is important is the colour dog in genetic terms. Looking back, when there is nobody anymore who actually knows the dog, we need to know if a dog was fawn, brindle or black/blue. We need to know if he was full pigmented or blue dilute, and if he had white.

My last litter black, in fact there were 5 different shades of black, from deepest blue black, black with slight slate tinge to one with brown tinge. But genetically they are all black, they would all be capable of producing black pups, and that is what counts.

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Thanks for "getting it". If you know anyone having a litter who might be tempted into fantasy colours, please could you tactfully help them. As for paying £20 to change a registered colour - I am horrified. "Mistakes" are usually put right without charge.

Gay

www.moonlake.co.uk

 

[louiejoe]

I was only commenting last week about all the 'Strange colours' that whippet puppies now appear to be being registered as. :b The KC Breed Record Suppliment gets more 'interesting' very time I read it!! :- " (w00t) (w00t)

 

[louiejoe]

I was only commenting last week about all the 'Strange colours' that whippet puppies now appear to be being registered as. :b The KC Breed Record Suppliment gets more 'interesting' very time I read it!! :- " (w00t) (w00t)

 

[louiejoe]

Seem to have posted that twice!! :- "