| Description: |
Black would be solid black over entire body.
The coat will be black down to the skin, top coat
and under coat. The Miniature Schnauzer often carry
a gene for fading. This fading gene dictates how
fast the fading will take place, exactly where on
the dog the fading will occur and even what color
the coat will fade to. So your black puppy may fade
to chocolate or grey anywhere on its body, slowly or
rapidly. There is another gene that can influence
the pigment intensity of a genetically one-color
coat. So Black Miniature Schnauzers can be intensely
black, or have a grey undercoat, or fade to grey.
SPECIAL NOTE:
A Liver
(one-color, brown-based) dog can be so intensely
pigmented that it appears identical to a black dog.
Side by side, a black with a faded, almost chocolate
coat would look identical to a very dark liver (
sometimes called "chocolate". Because some
Schnauzers carry genes that code for fading
either all over or just in specific places, dogs
that are genetically the same one color can appear
quite different at maturity. |
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