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, usually busy doing something she shouldn't.
She has already been placed top ten twice in her agility, although she has only attended two shows due to lack of time (both indoor shows, when she has never trained indoors! There's a solid temperement for you lol).
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! She reminds me a lot of Tan at this age!
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!
Here are some photos showing her colour developing and changing as she grows.
