I'd call that a dark sable. IMO not near a black sable. His coat looks a lot like Pan's (Pan maybe darker on the body but not as dark/full black mask on the face) and I just refer to Pan as "sable".
I would consider him just a "sable," maybe - maybe - a dark sable. But to my eye, he isn't that dark. Black sables are so dark they look almost black, thus the name. I don't see any red to consider him a red sable.
Wolfie is about 2 months older than Beau and I see a lot of similarities. Beau is a patterned sable having the B/T from his mother and a sable father.
The white stripe behind the elbow (no bitch stripe though), the grizzled hair on the neck, lighter belly underneath vs. my other sable who carries black and has none of those features.
I have the same question about my sable gsd...I got him at 8 wks with akc papers. His father was Black and Tan and the mother is sable. I got he's pedigree and a lot of his ancestor are Black and Tan, I just don't know what he's goin to look like when full grown here are some pictures of him from 8 wks to now at 8 months he's a big boy he's 82 lbs now
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