Dogs With The Most Unusual Coat Markings And Color Variations / Mutations
Domestic dogs have been bred to become the most diverse species on the planet, and come in a dizzying array of body shapes and sizes, ear shapes, nose lengths, and coat colors. This is quite an achievement considering that most of the 400 or so dog breeds in existence have been around for only a few hundred years.
But even with all this variety, we occasionally encounter dogs that are so unique in their appearance that we have to pause and admire their beauty. Here are the dogs with the most unique fur markings and patterns we’ve ever seen.
1. This dachshund has a rare combination of several different coloring types.
2. This unique dog is a merle.
That’s a gene that creates mottled patches of color.
3. This unique puppy looks like he has a mask on.
4. Black-and-tan french bulldogs are very rare, and very cute.
5. A bi-colored pug.
6. A blue-eyed bulldog.
7. This remarkable Rottweiler has depigmentation due to vitiligo.
8. This unique yellow lab named Bull is suspected to be a Chimera.
A Chimera is single animal that genetically is two animals (an individual that is its own twin!).
9. A dappled dachshund pup.
10. This Frenchie resembles a tiny panda.
11. These mosaic labrador retrievers have a somatic mutation.
This genetic color mutation causes yellow labs to show black spots.
12. This dog kind of looks like a zebra…
13. The fur markings on this mother and pup resemble a heart.
14. So does the bottom of this Corgi….
15. And this Chihuahua pup.
16. A “dog on a dog” coat pattern.
17. This beautiful little guy is a red merle australian shepherd.
18. This beautiful dog has freckles!
19. These Chinese puppies created an Internet sensation when they were born looking like pandas.
20. A truly unique piebald Bernese Mountain Dog.
21. This stunning pup is a Pomeranian / Australian Shepherd mix.
22. An unusual spotted dog!
23. A “Panda German Shepherd” whose coloration is the result of piebaldism, a mutation.
24. Here are two other stunning German Shepherd color variants.
25. Another dog with Vitiligo.
26. This is a brown spotted Dalmatian.
Surprisingly, this isn’t the only rare dalmatian color variation – there are others.
Some of these coat markings are the result of a rare genetic variations or conditions such as Vitiligo and Piebaldism, but that doesn’t make these dogs any less stunning.
Which one is your favorite?
