KarenCurtis
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Thanks for this! I guess I'll just have to wait and find out!! I don't really have a preference, although when I met my first little bi blue with dark blue eyes a few months ago I wanted one! I'd be waiting a while though, so that's out!pure for sable has nothing to do with merle- completely separate genes. you could have a pure for sable with merle.
pure for sable just means that there's no tri or bi in the dog so it can only produce sable puppies. so she would not breed a sable merle to the cryptic blue. merle is still being studied but there has been some recent work on it that someone here posted about.
I'll actually put out a guess that the sire is not pure for sable as if it was, she'd only get sable and sable merle puppies and a lot of breeders don't want to produce sable merle puppies as the merling is less obvious on most brown dogs and with a cryptic blue as the dam, I'd think it likely that you might not be able to tell if there was merle on the sables. it's one of the reasons that I got Cranberry- I was sure that you would be able to tell that he's a sable merle as an adult and you can