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**osteoftex** · 03-25-2009, 08:14 PM

EDIT - forgot to add, as for your dog ishy, maybe the "black" hairs you're seeing are actually chocolate or dark blue? I have a rednosed male & it looks like he has one black toenail, but if you look closely in the sun, you can see his toenail is not black, but actually dark chocolate.

I have always heard the best way to tell is to look at the whiskers. A sable dog has black whiskers, where a non-sable ("clear" red) will have red whiskers. Rednoses can be either brindled, clear, or sabled but in brindles & sables the whiskers can be either be blue or chocolate. Clears almost without exception have red.

Hope this helps!

03-25-2009, 08:14 PM	#17
osteoftex Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 542 Senior Member	EDIT - forgot to add, as for your dog ishy, maybe the "black" hairs you're seeing are actually chocolate or dark blue? I have a rednosed male & it looks like he has one black toenail, but if you look closely in the sun, you can see his toenail is not black, but actually dark chocolate. I have always heard the best way to tell is to look at the whiskers. A sable dog has black whiskers, where a non-sable ("clear" red) will have red whiskers. Rednoses can be either brindled, clear, or sabled but in brindles & sables the whiskers can be either be blue or chocolate. Clears almost without exception have red. Hope this helps!
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