09-30-2007, 02:15 PM
(click on links for bigger versions; the pics are a bit uncontrasty, but I didn't want to Photoshop them too much, because I wanted to make sure the color came out accurately...)
... my friend gave her to me. She is a silver sable -- this is obtained by combining the genes which give sable (eeU_ -- that's cream, ee, plus Umbrous, U_) with the silver grey gene (Sg_) ... what the silver grey does is to remove the brown and cream colors that are normally present in the agouti coloring, and on top of a sable, it therefore produces a solid light-to-medium grey that I really like (and it also removes any cream the sable might normally have). For reference, here's what a plain silver grey looks like:
I'm thinking of names... given what happened recently, I'm thinking maybe Tatiana, but am still deciding (I also like "Diana"). If I can socialize her well, I'll definitely use her for breeding...