"Phenomenal Franka" - Paw Talk

Tilt · #1 08-20-2004, 03:39 AM

I was just doing a bit of reading about a purebred GSD born the wrong color...or should I say colors?

Lewcinkas Franka Von Phenom CD TC CGC was born October 4th, 2001, to a black mother and a black/tan father. Though there is no white on either father or mother's side, Franka was born black, tan, and white. DNA testing has shown that her mother was not "gotten to" by an outside dog. She is just another color mutation. (Though definitely one I've never seen before in GSDs.)

The website of her breeder (http://www.lewcinkaskennels.com - head on over to the link "Phenomenal Franka" for info and pics) has photos of Franka, and Franka's pups...some of which have their mother's interesting coloring.

I'm curious what you guys think of "Phenomenal Franka" and her pups?

DirtySouthChins · #2 08-20-2004, 08:11 AM

Wow!!!! I can honestly say I have never seen anything like that before.... What a beauty she is, and wow at her pups.......

Formula86 · #3 08-20-2004, 08:49 AM

i haven't seen anything like that either kim! soooo beautiful. i have seen pure white gsd's on petfinder, though. on petfinder! wow. my friend jen is getting a gsd when she moves to my house (in a about a year). maybe she can try to rescue a white one.

good article, roz.

Seijun · #4 08-20-2004, 11:53 AM

I have talked to the breeder, the color comes from a mutated gene (according to scientists). The blue eye gene in her is reccesive. Piebalding is supposed to be reccesive too, but in this case, a gene seems to have mutated into a dominant piebald gene, which is even more strange because even the reccesive piebald gene isn't found in GSD's.

~Seij

dappledoxie · #5 08-20-2004, 02:14 PM

All I can say is WOW! That dog is absolutly stunning, how that happend is sooo odd and interesting. I wonder if it will become a new color that is seen alot more?

Chrisanne · #6 08-20-2004, 02:51 PM

I've seen her elsewhere, and was amazed. Beautiful GSD

veggiegirl · #7 08-20-2004, 03:34 PM

Wow, they are beautiful! Thats so cool.

lixx · #8 08-20-2004, 06:36 PM

She is beautiful, but personally I don't like it. Amazing occurance though!

Tilt · #9 08-20-2004, 09:32 PM

Don't like what, exactly, Lixx?

lixx · #10 08-20-2004, 10:50 PM

The colouring. Pie bald is not a colour combination I like. It's a ll personal preferance I guess. She is still gorgeous, but not a dog I would pick

Tilt · #11 08-20-2004, 10:51 PM

Ahh. Alright.

I'm just interested in the unusual, myself. I wouldn't buy a dog based solely on that, but it's interesting to look at the pics of Franka, anyway.

pihlaja · #12 08-23-2004, 02:48 AM

Wow.

When I first read what you wrote, Roz, I thought she just had a splotch of white on her chest or some other body part!

Boy, was I suprised!

Franka really is strange and foreign looking. It's certainly a dog that would NOT be lost within the crowd.

Thanks for sharing that!

Seijun · #13 08-23-2004, 09:41 AM

Despite the fact that this seems to be just a random mutation of sorts, having nothing to do with what the parents of the dogs were like, it still has the power to damage the breeder's reputation. The dog breeding world is very picky about things like that, if you produce anything 'different' or against the breed standard, it can really make the breeder look bad because it gives the impression that their female and/or stud dogs have "bad genes". Many breeders might have considered getting rid of these pups, or even killing them when they were first born to prevent anyone from knowing about them.

~Seij

Tilt · #14 08-23-2004, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Seijun


	Despite the fact that this seems to be just a random mutation of sorts, having nothing to do with what the parents of the dogs were like, it still has the power to damage the breeder's reputation. The dog breeding world is very picky about things like that, if you produce anything 'different' or against the breed standard, it can really make the breeder look bad because it gives the impression that their female and/or stud dogs have "bad genes". Many breeders might have considered getting rid of these pups, or even killing them when they were first born to prevent anyone from knowing about them. ~Seij

It's unfortunate that people are like that, and that others feel they must be rid of the "evidence." It's a living dog, and no different than any other GSD pup. Just more colorful

Formula86 · #15 08-24-2004, 04:10 AM

i agree with roz. those people that kill puppies are sick. just as sick as any other person that abuses animals.