Sometimes it is hard to picture a color or how it looks from a person's description. This page will, hopefully, clearly illustrate the different minpin colors that we raise and make it easier to understand what I am meaning if we speak on the phone.

There are some common misconceptions out there about the dilute colors---blue in particular.  Here is some information to help people with understanding about the blue color.

1.  Blue can have skin/coat problems, BUT, others have good skin and coat.  Some of this depends upon genetics,  some on diet, and some on contentment.  Happy dogs have better coats.

2.  Blue can be AKC registered.

3.  Blue can't be shown in the U.S., but can be in Canada and Great Britain.

4.  A fawn has been successfully shown to championship status in Canada.

5.  Breeding a blue dog to another minpin doesn't necessarily produce blue puppies.  Both parents must carry the dilution gene to produce blue color.

6. Any color is only skin deep.

A blue is a dilute black and rust. The black color has been diluted down into a blue.  Very striking to look at, and a real attention getter, some blue dogs do have skin or coat problems.  Some of these problems are more common in different bloodlines.

I believe on all of the dilute colors that the environment, and diet have as much to do with the coat as the genetics

This is a two year old blue beauty, a daughter of Amy and Riley.  She has a wonderful dark blue coat, and is just generally beautiful.  She is shown with her black and rust daughter.  (Amy and Riley's grand daughter).

She was sold to Cynthias Pups, and is living in Maryland.  Take a good look at this girl, and you can see that blue is beautiful. 

This little girl is a dilution of the clear red color.  This is shown by the fact that the leather and skin on her body is a blue shade in areas where it would be black on a normal clear red color.  She is registered with AKC as a tan.  In the right lighting it is obvious that there is also a "peachy" shade to the red.