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12-21-2010, 02:33 PM
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Losing the black
Sierra is Hunter's sister she is smaller then him and looks more like a german shepherd when we first got them has pups she had black on her back and head and legs she looked like a husky, but now her black on her back is less before I would have called her a blanket back but how it looks like if you painted two black puddles on her with space apart. So my questions is will she lose all her black or just stay that way and I also thought when german shepherds get older thier color gets darker?
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12-21-2010, 02:39 PM
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Sable German Shepherds get darker as they get older, since as young pups they are sort of a gray caramel color. Ex. Tag as a puppy @ 12 weeks than 5 months.
  Black and Tan shepherd pups almost always get lighter developing their saddle. Females will also develop what's called a bitch stripe- which is the lighter stripe of hair down the middle of the back. As to how light she'll get it just depends on genetics.  I don't have any pictures of black and tan pups since all of mine have been sable but I know there's been threads before of all the changes they go through!
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12-21-2010, 02:42 PM
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It depends on the color, sables tend to get darker and black & tans will lighten up.
Just for reference, here is my Raven is 3 months old. Notice she has a lot of black.  And here she is at about 1.5 years old. Notice she lost a lot of the black and has more of a saddle now.  She is now 3 years old but her coloring hasn't changed much since this picture. |
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12-21-2010, 02:55 PM
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Bi-colors are the only ones that stay the same(other than black and white GSD's) Some black and tan's will keep a blanket, you can usually tell by the parents pattern if they may be blanket-backed.
Many showline black and tans will get a bitch stripe as they mature, making them even less black on thier spine and neck area. Here is my blanket long coat and my bi-color(at 7 mos):  Kacie~ the long coat & Taz~ black and tan littermate(who is in the middle of losing his dark coat) to my bi-color Onyx:  my sable pup:  and his "big boy coat": 
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12-21-2010, 02:58 PM
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12-21-2010, 03:27 PM
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Strauss is often mistaken for a sable (I actually asked our new vet to correct his color as they listed him as sable). He's just got poor color.
Strauss at 8 weeks  Strauss at 6 years  
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