I don’t know the history of this color in pugs.
It may have always been there, or it could have been introduced through the small bulldogs that the pugs were used to create. The pugs and small bulldogs have often been backcrossed. My guess is the brindle hides out in some lines of black pug.
Or it could have come from Boston terriers at a later date.
Brindle is not a standard color in pugs, and although quite novel, I doubt that they are all that common or popular among the pug dog establishment.
Don’t you know, all brindle comes from Pit Bulls. Obviously these are pug/pit bull crosses!! :-)
Heh… I’ve heard all brindles come from boxers. *rolls*
If you have sighthounds, it all comes from Greyhounds.
Pugs of color.
http://www.pugcolorclub.com/3/miscellaneous5.htm
I like the silver color. They look like squished up, little Norwegian elkhounds.
When I had Danes we would have called that a smutty fawn.
does anyone know when the earliest depiction of a brindle dog is?
Peggy Richter
It’s got to be an old color.
It’s in a ton of different breeds with origins all over the world.
Brindle does appear in Dingoes occaisionally, but they are belived to be decendants of a cross with a domestic dog somewhere in their background. But it IS a color phase in Basenjis, a very old, primitive breed…….