[NancyJ]

I was refreshing myself with the standard and saw something that made me go ........?

It says only blacks have a black undercoat and the rest ALWAYS have grey. I have seen this to be true in other GSDs I have owned (actually a light grey or tannish grey at that)

Cyra is a blanket black and tan. Perhaps she carries a black gene but I don't know. She does have "almost" tarheels and "almost penciling" but she has slowly outgrown that at lightened over time. She most decidedly has a black undercoat,though.

Anyone seen that happen? There is no doubt in my mind that it is black.

 

[NancyJ]

Interesting I got this here:

http://www.workingdogs.com/standard_fci.htm

What you linked to looks more "official" - even so light greyish tone does not come close

 

[NancyJ]

I was not concerned about the fault thing it just seemed to indicate that only a black dog could genetically have a black undercoat...........i probably should have put it in the genetic issues forum.