brookcove
Posted : 10/7/2008 1:23:53 PM
The technical term for that color is bb liver or red. It is not a dilute, it's the expression of the recessive gene on the b locus.
It appears that of all the UKC coon hounds, only the blue tick and the Walker specifically disqualify the bb, because the dogs must be B black base color (tick is solid black genetically).
So that means the gene is in there, and if bred to a Visla could result in a pup like this. Which is, by the way, simply adorable. My mom's previous landlord adopted a lovely Visla mix that looked very similar to this dog, bt probably was actually a lba mix.