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he proposed breeding them to a white dog to get 

 puppies of a desirable brindle. He seemed quite 

 surprised when told the only shades he could 

 reasonably expect would be black, white and 

 splashed, all equally undesirable. 



The system adopted in our kennels some years 

 ago to obtain seal brindles with correct mark- 

 ings and the desirable luster and reddish sheen 

 to the coat is as follows : 



We take a rich red, or light mahogany bitch, 

 with perfect markings, that comes from a family 

 noted for the brilliancy of their color, and with- 

 out white in the pedigrees for a number of gen- 

 erations, and mate her always to a dark seal 

 brindle dog with an ancestry back of him noted 

 for the same color. The pups from these matings 

 will come practically seventy-five per cent, me- 

 dium seal brindles. We now take the females 

 that approximate the nearest in shade to their 

 mother, and mate them to a dark seal brindle 

 dog always. The bitches that are the result of 

 this union are always bred to a dark seal brindle 

 dog. The females that come from the last 

 union are bred to a medium seal brindle dog, 

 but now comes the time to introduce a mahog- 

 any brindle dog as a sire next time, for if these 

 last bitches were mated to a seal brindle dog a 

 large per cent, of the pups would come too dark 

 or even black. This system is used indefinitely 

 and desirable seal brindles with white markings 



