Evolving

I too, could look at Lappies all day, maybe I'll see some Lapphund lovers from DOL in Helsinki for the 2014 World Dog Show? :)

I think most Lappie people in Aus are planning on going over for it.

Blue Boy

White Girl

Gold Boy

The Puppies are almost 6 weeks old now.

Red Girl

Orange Boy

Green Boy

Purple Girl

Blue and his Mum

Orange and his mum

White and her mum

So being totally ignorant of the breed, are the creams called dominos? In Evolving's sig, Echo is dark, so I am confused.

Both my girls are domino's.

It is a name of a pattern marking on a lappie also used in Salukies I think.

Dominos are born with their markings already present. The Black and Tans will develop their markings as they grow. Domino gives the dog a sable colouring. Each hair on the girls has two colours in it. At the base it is light and the end is dark. Each time they drop coat the might come back slightly different. It is not a recognized colouring in Australia so they can not be registed as Domino. Alera is registed as Sable and Echo Grey and Tan (The grey goes away as they age). Just to mix it up Domino is also referred to as Wild Colour in Lappies.

Here is a black and tan as a baby and grown up. You can see how the mask developed.

On the other hand here is Alera as a baby and she has the same markings now.

And Baby Echo so she does not feel left out.

Here is an Adult Cream boy he is the half brother of the father of the pups.

Just love her colour so much.

Adorable little tongue pokes too.

How common are domino's in Australia?

There are a few born a year maybe between 4-10. It depends on which lines are involved.

Some more cream photos for the cream lovers

The hoard is growing

Lovely pictures

I though it was pretty common for foxes to live in Urban areas. Why not get an easy feed of scraps if you can. There are lots of parks and places from them to live in cities.

Yes the are a lot of fun to be around.

They are just starting to learn what teeth are good for.

The pups were 4 weeks old yesterday.

They are getting big now and have had a few visiters over and a couple of trips into the big wide world outside.

The pups were 4 weeks old yesterday and had another photo shoot.

The Pups had their first visit outside today.

OMG, he's pulled down a woolly mammoth!! :laugh:

With a kiss it is not a very tough mammoth.

Looks like similar variety of shade can occur. The red bcs are like golden retrievers and can be anything from very pale cream where it is difficult to pick the white areas, through to a deep rich golden red colour. My boy should end up somewhere in the middle of the range.

Yes the same can happen. You can get almost white dogs and also some so dark they can look brown.

Yes the colour changes a lot. Inititally you could see the white on his face and just around his collar and everywhere else it was hard to pick the line between red and white, it is quite obvious now and it turns out he has quite a large white tip whereas I did think he didn't have much at all.

I was wondering if the same sort of colour change will happen with your creams?

The little one is a lighter cream and will stay lighter.

Like this boy

The other is darkening up a little and will be a darker cream when older

Like this boy

He is getting a lot darker now

Poor Alera the pups are little whales.

The pups turned 2 weeks yesterday.

They all have their eyes open now and are all also over 1kg even my little boy. They are starting to want to play with each other.

So cute!! How many pairs of hands and how much time did that take? I struggle putting 2 in position. LOL

I have done all my photos by myself so far. I put them on the ground on a vet bed and quickly snap photos and they stayed like that for a while. Lucky for me none of them wanted to run off very quickly. They were more of a problem with the individual shots as they want to wonder.

I am sure it will be more trouble when they are older.

Here are the boys

and the girls