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Re: goD help us .... or, what do YOU think these Dane-cross puppies are going to look like???

Liisa Sarakontu <lsara...@cc.hut.fi>

"Sionnach" <rhyfe...@msn.com> wrote in
news:4lmgnaF2kurgU1@individual.net:

> Aside from the mind-boggle of anyone being happy their bitch had been
> bred by a male with a known inheritable heart defect, I find myself
> completely unable to visualize what the (at this point, still
> hypothetical) puppies would look like... other than suspecting they
> wouldn't turn out "cute and fluffy">

Danes are homozygous for short coat LL, so although the pups will inherit
the long coat allele l from the sire, they will all be short-coated Ll.
They'll probably have softer and slightly longer coat than the Dane dam,
but still short and not "fluffy".

If the Dane is black or blue, she will get a full litter of black pups. If
she is fawn, she will get a full litter of different shades of red/fawn. If
the Cav is piebald, pups might have some white on chest and paws. If the
Dane is harl, things might get more interesting colorwise.

Size: closer to Dane, but not as big. Ears: lop. Muzzle: perhaps slightly
shortened. Oh, she will get a litter of pit bull lookalikes!

Liisa