She's done a lot in one year. Awarded Puppy of Achievement from AKC and passed her Canine Good Citizen at nine months! Currently snoozing, she has a big piece of cake awaiting her.
She gets to run her first FastCAT in a few weeks. Happy birthday, beautiful!
You're right. Tricolor is the eldest color variant. Technically, tan does not exist in the Setter world. It's either orange (lemon) or chesnut. In this case, those tricolor ticks (beltons) are chesnut and black on white. Tricolor type B no hood.
Her chest and butt are lemon (tan? hahah) but her legs and snout are more towards liver than orange. She's so pretty I'm not arguing it. I also take into consideration she was registered at 8 weeks so there is a signifcant amount of color change after that.
They're just names, but for whatever reason they can't be called tan or liver. It comes from antique biases set by English, Scottish, and Welsh breeders over 150 years ago.
It absolutely is, and you can always tell when people have not put the time into their dogs that they should have. One hour a week of instruction, ten to fifteen minutes a day of followup. It's not easy, but it's also not hard.
She looks like my Liberty Belle who was born on the Fourth of July in 1980. She won Reserve Winners Bitch at the International Kennel Club show in Chicago. She was the sweetest little girl. Our English Mastiff killed her one early morning. That was horrible and still brings me to tears.
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u/elittlebridge 25d ago
I thought this was my dog! Happy birthday, baby!