BRYNING GOLDFINCH
BORDER COLLIE
SEAL/WHITE
D.O.B. 07:03:07
BVA HIP SCORED 3:7
EYE TESTED: CEA/cPRA/PLL - unaffected 23/02/09
Gonioscopy tested 23/02/09 - Unaffected.
Wren competes in Agility, and has had the occasional appearance in the breed ring too!
She is a very active little dog, although usually busy doing something she shouldn't.
She has now had several top five places in her agility, although she has only attended a very few shows due to lack of time and a litter of super puppies! We are looking forward to next year, this little dog is so much fun to run with.
She is really naughty, but she is dead cute too. A bit of a handful to train, she is very self opinionated (she thinks she is just great), she is the most impatient creature I have ever met, if she doesn't immediately understand what we are asking of her, her nose will start to wrinkle up, and then she starts fooling around instead of concentrating! Which is (rather unfortunately from an educational point of view) very very funny. She is very fast, but rather independant, which makes for an interesting mix!
Wren is genetically clear of TNS,CEA and CL.
You can read more about her parents here.
Wren is a very unusual colour for a BC. She is seal and white. Her hairs are black, but tipped with gold, so giving the impression of being very dark chocolate or 'mahogany' colour. On her neck, she is lighter still, looking almost sable coloured. Her pigment is black, so her nose eye rims and lips are black (in a 'brown' or 'chocolate' coloured dog they will be brown/chocolate too.) She was born this colour, although her colour has changed greatly as she has grown. She is not a 'tri colour' (tan point) (indeed, she cannot be both tricoloured and seal!)although she does have gold 'spectacles' around her eyes, and her 'feathering' is lighter coloured still (cream/silver colour). She also has the same white base colour to her hair that our dilute(blue) has, looking almost like white hairs when you part the coat. Where her hair is shorter, the colour is darker, so her head ears and legs are darker coloured than her body and tail.
Depending on the light, she can look nearly black, or nearly blue, or nearly chocolate!
Recently we have had a few enquiries from people with 'odd coloured' puppies, asking if they are seal. It's really hard to tell from a photo, but a few 'pointers' to help could be -
1)No tan markings! If there are tan markings anyewhere on the face, legs or under the tail, then the puppy is not seal, it's probably a dark sable, or a tri of some description!(ie saddle back)
2)If the pup has gold/tan hairs through its coat - again, it is not seal, a seal does not have different coloured hairs - rather each hair is banded in different colours.
Wren had gold tips to her coat from birth, the 'gold dusting' spectacles pretty much define a seal, and all seal coloured BC's seem to have them, these are very very different to a tri coloured dogs tan points, and again, there are no tan markings anywhere on her, or 'brindle' type colouring either.
Here are some photos showing her colour developing and changing as she grows.
