I don’t know the history of this color in pugs.
It may have always been there, or it could have been introduced through the small bulldogs that the pugs were used to create. The pugs and small bulldogs have often been backcrossed. My guess is the brindle hides out in some lines of black pug.
Or it could have come from Boston terriers at a later date.
Brindle is not a standard color in pugs, and although quite novel, I doubt that they are all that common or popular among the pug dog establishment.
Don’t you know, all brindle comes from Pit Bulls. Obviously these are pug/pit bull crosses!! :-)
Heh… I’ve heard all brindles come from boxers. *rolls*
If you have sighthounds, it all comes from Greyhounds.
Pugs of color.
http://www.pugcolorclub.com/3/miscellaneous5.htm
I like the silver color. They look like squished up, little Norwegian elkhounds.
When I had Danes we would have called that a smutty fawn.
does anyone know when the earliest depiction of a brindle dog is?
Peggy Richter
It’s got to be an old color.
It’s in a ton of different breeds with origins all over the world.
Brindle does appear in Dingoes occaisionally, but they are belived to be decendants of a cross with a domestic dog somewhere in their background. But it IS a color phase in Basenjis, a very old, primitive breed…….
Youre all wrong. It is from breeding the pugs with tigers. Cmon people.
However, with just a little research, I learned that brindle pugs have been around for hundreds of years. In 1730, the french artist Jean-Baptiste Ourdry painted this work of art entitled “Pug Dog.”
What’s more likely true is that the brindle coloring represents a supressed gene which breeders attempted to “breed out” of the pug species. When the Europeans began importing pugs from Asian, certain physical characteristics of the breed were considered more desirable than others. Today, the only colors officially recognized by the AKC are black and fawn. In actuality, there are other less well-known colors of pugs such as brindle, blue, silver-grey, and white. This is Created by Tina Dalton, a Library Sciences student at Drexel University.I thought you would like to read this portion of an article I read and the research makes sense. Traci Delaney
And yes one of the earliest depictions of the Pugs was a portrait painted by artist Jean-Baptiste Ourdry and the dog was in fact BRINDLE.