Western NC Blue Ridge Mtns
K9 Pines Camo Collection
How our Camo Collection started
Mozart was our first full body brindle and he was born here, his mother (now retired) has a black saddle with brindle legs. She was not born here. I purchased my first brindle Summer of 2007. From that time I have worked to improve structure and companionship qualities as my first brindle Helga was more working driven (her grand parents were imported).
Brindles can be black, blue, isabella, or Liver
Brindle we have in our program now:
1. Motzart - Ay Fawn and Brindle; provisional reg. offspring eligible for FULL -retired
2. Tigra - Ay Fawn and Brindle (Motzarts daughter); Full reg-retired
3. Toyger - Aw Sable and Brindle (Motzarts daughter); Full reg-retired
4. Sasha - Aw Sable Brindle (Toyger x Solomon daughter) Full reg-retired
5. Tanzie - Ay Blue Fawn Brindle (Tigra x Solomon daughter) Full reg
6. River - Ay Brindle * Not related to my original line of Brindle ~ Big boy, special shout out to my GF Dawn for finding him! Full Reg
7. Tawny the Tigress
8. Vahgar - young upcoming brindle fawn male out of Tracy & Boojum
9. Tanzietu - Blue brindle fawn up coming bitch out of Tanzie & Miner
10. Terrah -River daughter - fawn brindle
11. Tracy - out of Tigra my fawn brindle & Miner, she carries long coat
12. Kattie - sable brindle upcoming bitch Tracy granddaughter (River is her sire)
Brindle ? in the GSD gene pool ?
V. Horand von Grafrath was the first registered German Shepherd http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/1208.html the black and white picture does not give much detail nor does the caption from the founder of the breed. There are only 3 black/white photo’s of Horands 33 sons (no daughter photo’s) also very difficult to see much detail concerning color/pattern.
However this grandson obviously has brindle on his legs/head: http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/2051.html This grandson also obviously has the pattern as well: http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/8427.html The reason I am directing you to the foundation of the GSD breed is so you can see the pattern in the first 3 generations of the GSD.
Why is the above paragraph significant? To show you that the brindle was once an accepted pattern within the GSD breed. The SV (original GSD governing body) decided to eliminate many colors and patterns that the GSD came in. The colors eliminated to be eligible to be shown include; blue, liver, white and patterns– brindle and blue merle.
I want to make perfectly clear these colors and patterns were eliminated from being shown because the people ‘in charge’ did not want them shown. They were not eliminated because of health issues but rather personal preferences. Max Von Stephantz (breed founder) wrote: ‘No good dog is a bad color’
In closing the brindle pattern is a beatiful pattern that exists in the GSD gene pool. There are currently 3 lines of GSD that are testing 100% GSD through embark.
Helga's line
Rivers line and a line in France
There are 2 other brindle lines out there that are testing labrador x gsd mix and the other is testing akita x gsd mix as their breeders opted to use these dogs to incorporate the brindle pattern in their line (be it on purpose or an accident) .