A local Anatolian owner is moving to Idaho and had recently taken her pup there to check out the lay of the land. Sure sounds exciting!!
Looks beautiful to me!Of course, when I think of remote and rustic environments, I think of bugs, snakes and bears too. eep.
Here's part of one shot I made of Matty when she came to visit early in February.
Very cute!
A sweet temperament as well.
I love her brindle color though you can't see much of it here!
Here is a cropped shot of one side of her body.
Spots and stripes!Just to show how nuts I am, I'm thinking I should have made a macro shot of some of her individual brindle colored hairs! I'm so fascinated by the brindle pattern and generally intrigued by the bands in the hair of genetic sables anyway. :P
Spots!
Above you can see fleck of color on her body, and freckles on her nose. This is called ticking. This is a form of pigment leak-through that happens on pinto factored dogs that have the ticking trait. Puppies like dalmatians are born white, and then the ticking begins to break through. White areas shrink back a bit as pigment development comes to the fore.
The color of ticking that comes through will be the same color as that area on the dog might have been, if the dog didn't also have spotting trait (pinto/piebald). Pinto marks are white toes and white stockings, blazes, stars on the forehead, even big patches of fur like on a Saint Bernard or Collie, where the color white covers up the body color beneath. These white markings are areas where pigment development is turned OFF.
Stripes!In a brindle dog, you can only see the black stripes in areas where the dog might normally be yellow to red. You can have a black dog that is brindle too, but the stripes will be hidden in the coat because of black on black! doh!
Now tanpoint!Tanpoint doesn't seem to happen in Anatolians. But brindling does fascinating things to a tanpoint, so I'm bringing it up here while I'm on the subject of brindles.
Tanpoint is a black and tan pattern as seen on a Dobie, Rotti, Berners and some Australian shepherds -- just to name a few breeds. And there are some black and tan dogs that have brindling. I've seen a picture of a purebred Saluki that has tanpoint and brindling. Probably happens in Afghans too, but being long coated it's hard to see actual stripes on them. Anyone know other tanpoint and brindle breeds?
While a brindled, tanpoint dog's whole body is striped... you can only see the black stripes on the tan point areas of the dog - it needs that yellow/red area to show up. These are usually mixed breeds usually since people who develop tanpoint breeds usually want clear and sharp markings that are not muddy looking.
Some time ago, someone sent some pics for a breed ID on a rescue.
I thought this dog was gorgeous.
I'm not sure what he is (definitely not an Anatolian) of course, but appears to be a mixture of rotti and some brindled dog which also contributed the genetics for (guessing here) a good amount of bone, tight feet and a different earset than rottis usually have.
A mixed breed dog in brindled tanpoint
Another shot of this awesome dog
The eye spots (the tanpoints over the eyes) on this handsome dog are brindled, as is the muzzle and any other areas where the coat is based on phaeomelanin (yellow to red hair - non-black areas). The white medallion on the chest has no pigment (pinto factor) so there will not be yellow hairs for the brindling to break through.
Fascinating huh? B)
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