So what do albino dogs have to do with horse color? Certainly the fact that there are “cremello” Dobermans is interesting, but why is...

An experimental Pekingese breeding program from 1913 documented an extremely diluted color scientists referred to as a Cornaz albino. So...

No, I am not breeding "albino" Shih Tzus... or any other animals, for that matter From time to time I get responses from readers...

A discussion of the form of albinism found in Dobermans and why assuming Padula's Queen of Sheba is the founder is probably mistaken. In...

A different sort of diluted dog has been found by a Florida Shih Tzu rescue. She resembles the albino dogs described in literature. This...

This is a short explanation of the common factors that dilute coat color in dogs, to provide background for the subsequent posts about...

Early observations about the classic splashed white pattern (SW1) from Valto Klemola based on his study of the Finnhorse stallion...

An interesting - and seasonally relevant! - study from the British Medical Journal Earlier in the Christmas season, I posted a Bitstrips...

The silver dilution was mistakenly believed to have originated in the American Shetland Pony, but the mutation is much older. In the...

Color can tell a story about common ancestry, when that color arose as a one-time mutation. It is known that the two horses above share a...

Another horse, this time a Miniature Horse, shows a minimized form of the classic splashed white pattern. Here is another interesting...

A Gotland Pony foal shows a very minimized form of the classic splashed white pattern. One of the big questions about patterns is the...

Okay, maybe not love – but certainly stop worrying about it. Like a lot of people who find horse color fascinating, I once spent no small...

Although commonly associated with splashed white patterns, it is not unusual to find blue eyes on dominant white horses, too. The blog...

Three examples of the shifting of black pigment in homozygous appaloosas with different types of patterns. I have been busy with work on...

An unusual dilution has been observed in Morgan horses that looks similar to one seen in Arabian horses. In the first volume of the...

Once considered a radical theory, the idea that white markings are a form of pinto patterning has become widespread. In 1989, a horse I...

Some examples of Birdcatcher Spots on Saddlebreds. In the previous post, I included an image of a really interesting Greyhound with white...

Greyhounds appear to have a pattern of white spots similar to the "Tetrarch spots" seen on some grey horses. Elvis Brown posted this very...

U.C. Davies now offers a test for the Leopard Complex allele. The official Leopard Complex test is now available for $25 from UC Davis. A...