to my understanding . . the red dog is a clear red. it is leopard colored but it can't be seen because it lacks black pigmentation. So yes, this dog can produce visibly leopard colored pups. But the black dog is incapable of it. My original question was about breeding (for example) your black dog to (for example) the black and tan pup I raised last year who had one leopard parent.
Or, as JIMCO put it
"Solid X Solid = Solid pups, no chance of merle pups"
Which is what all of the old, leopard guys that I know say, as well as geneticists. But some other rules seem to apply over the internet. I just want to see it with my own eyes.
Until someone can produce living examples that can be DNAd . . . it's kind of like that time that me and my friend BIGFOOT went hunting for BLACK PANTHERS down in the BERMUDA TRIANGLE. I'm always willing to apologize and/or admit when I'm wrong. But not just because someone tell me to.
WHOA there Nelly......I don't know why you feel that burst of sarcasm was warranted.....last I knew people were trying to have a productive (or not) conversation. And did I miss some posts here? About someone calling you out about you being 'wrong', or asking you to admit being wrong about something?
There is also more than one line of merle. There's simple recessive, and incomplete co-dominant.
I shall step away from this thread as I have no interest in partaking in any further conversation with someone who knows all the answers but asks all the questions. If you know all the answers, why are you posting about the topic?
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