[canuckjill]

Neva my Rough Collie

 

[cravensmum]

I am a bit confused. I thought the OP was asking whether her dog was tri colour or multi coloured. OP, just in case I did get it right, tri colour is a specific colouring not just a dog with 3 colours.

What is the specific colouring.

 

[BeagleOesx]

Neva my Rough Collie

Wow, Neva is gorgeous. Is her body completely white? She looks so unusual but :001_tt1:

 

[canuckjill]

Wow, Neva is gorgeous. Is her body completely white? She looks so unusual but :001_tt1:

She's classed as a Colour Headed Tri recognized in North America but not in the UK. Although she appears completely white you can find black hairs mixed in and a couple of black and tan spots on her paws....Her mom was a CHW Sable and her Dad was White Factored but not white in colour

 

[Tacey]

Aprils a tri-coloured blue merle

 

[Jackie99]

Tinypic seems to be up and running again so here is my TriColour JRT looking moody:-

 

[1281247]

Max is definately tricolour:

And Milly has white and black in her colouring too:

 

[Leanne77]

I thought the classic view of tri colour is black, white and tan. But I know you can get other tri colours, differentiated by the dominant colour e.g red tri, blue merle tri etc.

 

[Howl]

I am a bit confused. I thought the OP was asking whether her dog was tri colour or multi coloured. OP, just in case I did get it right, tri colour is a specific colouring not just a dog with 3 colours.

No, I am not asking my dogs are both tricolour which according to breed standard is ;

White, with any combination of lemon, orange, sable, grizzle or black markings. Tricolour.

More specifically they can be;
lemon and white
orange and white
sable and white
or tricolour of any of the above colours but must include white.
White is the base colour because it is easier to spot when hunting they have to have a large amount of white. It would be a rare dog with an exceptional standard in other areas that would do well with very little white.

I put forward my two as examples of tricolour in that breed but as other breeds have a different interpretation of tricolour I put multi colour for example the blue merlin tricolour has several shades many that are not seen in my breed, I also wanted to include pups who don't have a breed specification of tricolour.
So in my opinon any multi coloured dogs are welcome in this post :thumbsup:

 

[comfortcreature]

The classic view, I believe, IS the black dog with tan on the pips and leg areas along with white . . .

. . . but when I speak to people - not into dogs - about a tricolor they just think of a three color dog.

Keep in mind that the a't'/a't' allele set that creates a black colored dog with pips is the same allele set that creates the saddle tan on many hounds. Modifiers allow those pips to creep out over the full head and farther up the legs in that case.

Other than that many dogs that are a'y' (sable) and all a'w' (wolf sable) dogs have two colors in their coat already - black and tan just in a different pattern. Add white (or take away color which is what happens genetically) and you get a three colored dog.

Here is a Tibbie that is staying at my house for a while. He is red sable (a'y'/a'y' + C/?) and parti (s'p'/s'p') and has a black mask (E'm'/?). I have run into a few people who call him a tricolor. LOL

CC

 

[comfortcreature]

. . . . and here's my sled dog - Alaskan Husky - when she was a very young girl. She is wolf sable and white (a'w'/a'w'). We at first thought she was black and tan, but her hairs were banded which is the hallmark of wolf sables.

CC

 

[lozzibear]

Jake...

 

[moonviolet]

As if you haven't seen enough of her today, another pic of my tricolour grothound sorry I mean beagle

 

[Kay&Baxter]

My gorgeous tri-colour JRT - Baxter

:thumbup:

 

[Bella Beagle Mum]

I love a good chance to upload a pic!!

 

[sweetcharity]

the loverly LILY

 

[cavmad]

I have 5 tris
Ollie Collie with Emily

Koda the Aussie and Monty x breed he does have tan markings just not showing up on the photo

Jasmine

And my bridge baby cos i still miss him so much

 

[kate_7590]

Flint is tri colour Border Collie X something...

Simba, I suppose is tri coloured, technically he has 3 different colours in his coat..

 

[EmzieAngel]

Gone but not forgotten...
Harvey the Collie Cross

 

[MeganRose]

(I really need to find out what the time limit is on bumping old threads! Hope this is okay, anyway!)
Myrddin's tri-coloured Most his brothers and sisters were just brown and white, he was the only one with mostly black and white! He also managed to change colours completely on his face! Lost his cute little pinky nose bits