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Dogs and All about Them
·
Robert Leighton
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Until
recently
British
Great
Dane
breeders
and
exhibitors
have
paid
very
little
attention
to
colour,
on
the
principle
that,
like
a
good
horse,
a
good
Great
Dane
cannot
be
a
bad
colour.
The
English
clubs,
however,
have
now
in
this
particular
also
adopted
the
German
standard.
The
orthodox
colours
are
brindle,
fawn,
blue,
black,
and
harlequin.
In
the
brindle
dogs
the
ground
colour
should
be
any
shade
from
light
yellow
to
dark
red-yellow
on
which
the
brindle
appears
in
darker
stripes.
The
harlequins
have
on
a
pure
white
ground
fairly
large
black
patches,
which
must
be
of
irregular
shape,
broken
up
as
if
they
had
been
torn,
and
not
have
rounded
outlines.
When
brindle
Great
Danes
are
continuously
bred
together,
it
has
been
found
that
they
get
darker,
and
that
the
peculiar
"striping"
disappears,
and
in
that
case
the
introduction
of
a
good
fawn
into
the
strain
is
advisable.
The
constant
mating
of
harlequins
has
the
tendency
to
make
the
black
patches
disappear,
and
the
union
with
a
good
black
Great
Dane
will
prevent
the
loss
of
colour.
The
following
is
the
official
description
issued
by
the
Great
Dane
Club:--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
