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Sheltie News Informationen | Ausgabe 3 ~ 2018 11
Registration Certificate
The Kennel Club to
ESSC
and was the founder of family 8
in the Charts. According to
Rogers, most black & tan had
more tan than the tricolours,
and the tan was always golden
red.
The sable color is also a color
likely to have disappeared. Today
we register sable/white,
but it must not be confused
with the old sables, which actually
did not have any white.
The only winning sable Sheltie
was Honey of Crawleyridge,
who won a CC.
Another color that also appears
in the A-book is brown, but it
was not common. Black was
no common color of Shelties in
the early years, and Felicity
Rogers writes in her article that
she once owned one, but it
died. She also writes that it
was not any loss, because the
black Shelties were not very
be quite sure that it is now extinct.
Felicity Rogers wrote in
her article that the color is not
been seen since World War II.
Chocolate and Brindle are also
colors which today does not
exist, and should they appear,
they would be illegal.
As a small digression, it actually
popped up a picture of a
brindle Sheltie puppy on an internet
list some years ago, but
it was sold as a pet and was
not bred from (and could most
likely have been a mongrel).
The most famous black & tan
Sheltie was Tango of Houghton
Hill, according to Felicity
Rogers. Tango had one CC
old photo album ESSC