How cute! but I would like a blanket back over a saddle back any day . Not that I have one now, it's black, sable and bi color. But then again I love my horses too and none of them is my dream color or they would be a bay ...
I've had and currently have blanket backs, but I've always love a saddle back black and red. Saddle back reds are what I have always envisioned the GSD breed is supposed to look like, and I've always dreamed of having one.
Not that I don't think my blanket back looks great, and I've recently became a huge fan of sables.
Before I got a GSD I thought I liked the saddle back best but now that I have a blanket back, I really think that color pattern is more attractive. Go figure.
I'm leaning towards the saddle back, as my frequent questions about Thor's coloration may have led y'all to believe. BUT if Thor turns out to be a blanket back the, obviously, blanket back will be best!
I've had almost exclusively saddle backs... black and red. My first sable is coming. I used to not be overly fond of the sables, but over the years they've grown on me. I've also seen a few blankets that I thought were stunning.
I like the saddle look more. Rushie was a blanket and Ninja is, Gretta could go either way I guess. All the rest are saddles. If that is Stark in the photos, I would call that a saddle, not that it matters really. But I always thought that a blanket back is pretty much dark from the neck to the tail area, though Rush's started to fade a bit.
My blankets:
Rush:
Ninja:
Ninja's litter sister, Milla on the same day, definitely a saddle back in the making:
One thing I read said that blanket backs have black extending down to the elbow, but then what is a bi-color? Just a tiny bit of tan/red on the feet and the rest black?
This is a dog that we were going to adopt from the rescue. We were just waiting for his neuter and then we were going to bring him home, but they found a serious heart murmur when he went to be neutered. I still think he's one of the prettiest shepherds I've seen.
I can't decide between the two. My last GSD was a saddle back, but Bear hasn't made up his mind yet and he could go either way at this point.
At what age do they have their adult coat?
I don't care between saddle or blanket but I like a really rich, full black and not the salt and pepper or washed out look. I like my saddles to be like Stark and Nikon and a blanket to be a full blanket.
Blanket, simply because you will RARELY find saddle markings in working lines. They are almost non-existant. A lot more blanket backs (that's what Zeke is, and I see a lot of people wrongly label blankets as bi-colors, when in fact they have too much extension of the tans to be bi-colors).
Some old DDR lines have black and tans still. Rare though. Sable, bi-color, blacks. And some blankets.
I love the saddle backs and got one, but I now have a real fondness for black. Although, it really depends on the individual GSD as I've never seen one that I didn't think was beautiful in some way!
Saddle backs only, and as red and black as possible, I personally do not like blanket back or Bi or sable.
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