brindling

These patches shall be clear and distinct with no brindling.

If there is a gene for brindling in equine, it has not yet been isolated.

White hairs from aging or scarring are not to be misinterpreted as brindling.

Brindling may be associated with chimerism.

Colours to be as brilliant as possible and free from brindling and tabby markings.

The white shall not extend up the sides of the body, the edges shall be clear cut and devoid of brindling.

Fawn, wolf gray and yellow, with or without brindling, white markings or shadings of black throughout the coat.

Darker eyes are preferred, however, the color of the eyes tends to emulate the shade of brindling in the coat.

If a dachshund is brindled on a dark coat and has tan points, it will have brindling on the tan points only.

Colour: Cream, Wheaten, Red, Grey, Brindle and Brindling in any of these colours.

It usually does not affect the head and legs as much as the body, with the heaviest concentrations of brindling being on the neck, shoulders and hindquarters.

The color of the coat may be wheaten or blue (usually with brindling), with both wheaten and blue encompassing a range of shades.

Its coat colour varies from light-sand, to red-sand, red- or mahogany with or without brindling, black mantle, black mask, black ears.

Brindling of varying intensity is common on both basic coat colours as well, creating tigrato (black brindle), and Grigio Tigrato (blue brindle).

I remember my dad looking at it over the hedge one day and saying, 'That's fine brindling on that cow, you don't get brin- dling like that these days.'

In addition, the breed standards state that the fawn background must clearly contrast with or show through the brindling, so a dog that is too heavily brindled may be disqualified by the breed standard.

Occasionally, Labradors will exhibit small amounts of white fur on their chest, paws, or tail, and rarely a purebred Lab will exhibit brindling stripes or tan points similar to a Rottweiler.

Some brindle Boxers are so heavily striped that they give the appearance of "reverse brindling", fawn stripes on a black body; these dogs are conventionally called "reverse brindles", but that is actually a misnomer-they are still fawn dogs with black stripes.