I'm just curious if Lycus is considered a splash coat. Lol, I've never really put much consideration into what type of fur color he would be categorized in so I'm hoping for a few opinions.

To me this was the closes one but I could be completely wrong lol.
http://www.huskycolors.com/cassy.html

Here is the best picture I could get of his color.

Hmm. He's such a light color that it's almost hard to tell, but I would say he is. His back is darker and seems to break at the shoulders and go white. Alki has a splash coat. He's black on his back and head white on the neck.

Nope, I would say he's just grey. Nothing wrong with that. My female has a small white patch on her back, but I don't think of her as a splash coat.

Thanks for the responses guys!

mheath0429 wrote:

Nope, I would say he's just grey. Nothing wrong with that. My female has a small white patch on her back, but I don't think of her as a splash coat.

What would make a splash coat then? Lol, I'm just curious. Would they have to have a darker color?

I thought the white break between the colors like that was indicative of it. Whoops. D: learn something new every day. Haha.

CatDen wrote:

I thought the white break between the colors like that was indicative of it. Whoops. D: learn something new every day. Haha.

You and me both haha!

From what I know, it needs to be more than just one little patch on the neck for splash - it's like a piebald, but the more dark than white, but it should eb significant splashing.

mheath0429 wrote:

From what I know, it needs to be more than just one little patch on the neck for splash - it's like a piebald, but the more dark than white, but it should eb significant splashing.

Oh I see! Thanks for the info!

however Delilah has a cute little white patch too - and I love it. Just like that.

Having the white break on the neck is called a shaw or 'collar' like this dog-


Having a splash coat is like the color is just 'splashed' onto them vs the more traditional patterning-

Ohhh! I've always considered Alki a splash! :/

So is Sophie a splash coat? I've always called her one.

Haha, Alki and Sophie have almost the same exact markings...and freckles!

Thanks for the info Lani! Very helpful! As far as Sophie and Alki, maybe Lani can confirm!

CatDen wrote:

Haha, Alki and Sophie have almost the same exact markings...and freckles!

Yeah, they do.

I think he might be a slight saddleback actually...

http://www.huskycolors.com/saddle.html

Oh man. Now I'm even more confused! What are Alki and Sophie then?

Jennet&Embry wrote:

I think he might be a slight saddleback actually...

http://www.huskycolors.com/saddle.html

Whoah, so many options!

I'd call Alki a black/white with a shaw and Sophie a red/white with a shaw. The reason I would do this is because their body color is the more traditional 'blanket' color you'd see just with the white collar break vs having a sloppy pattern to the body color.

But since splash is just a pattern, not a registrable trait I suppose you could say they were whatever makes you the happiest, lovely huskies

HuskyMom09 wrote:

I'd call Alki a black/white with a shaw and Sophie a red/white with a shaw. The reason I would do this is because their body color is the more traditional 'blanket' color you'd see just with the white collar break vs having a sloppy pattern to the body color.

But since splash is just a pattern, not a registrable trait I suppose you could say they were whatever makes you the happiest, lovely huskies

Thanks, that's what i thought Sophie would be called at first but was confused because she doesn't really have a mask.

HuskyMom09 wrote:

I'd call Alki a black/white with a shaw and Sophie a red/white with a shaw. The reason I would do this is because their body color is the more traditional 'blanket' color you'd see just with the white collar break vs having a sloppy pattern to the body color.

But since splash is just a pattern, not a registrable trait I suppose you could say they were whatever makes you the happiest, lovely huskies

Ahh, all these new names I didn't know. Haha.
I thought Alki would be a splash just because his coat doesn't look standard where the black meets the white on his side on both sides and he has like a white splotch on his neck. Woops. D:

What do you call it when they have just a little splash of white on their neck, but it doesn't go all the way around like the others posted?

You'd call that a white spot LOL, not every little mark has a unique name, it's certainly a unique identifying mark though.

Her dad has a similar mark and I've seen it on a few others like Fizzy. Just thought it might be called something. Oh well. Yeah, Elara is very unique. She's the only siberian I know that has a cowlick on her muzzle!