What color is your brown dog?

[] Golden Rust.

My little Gingerbread is liver and white. My absolute favorite colors for dogs are the liver and chocolate. In case anybody was wondering. lol

Red and white

Dodger is tan and white![]

Chloe is considered "red".

My chessie is deadgrass.

Talus is considered red....
 
 

Mine are black and tan.  (sounds like a tasty beverage too! [8D]    Tan being a form of brown, I thought I'd jump in too []  however I guess they also qualify as "tri-color", right?

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Black and Rust. []

 
Don't forget the "brown" Dobermans.    They're called red and rust.  There is also a fawn color, which, I believe, looks like a washed out red and rust.

Mine is a red sable - so I've been told... Looks brown to me, too!

Fawn

Rhodesian ridgebacks are often referred to as wheaten. I know that there's red and light wheaten...mine is kind of both for some reason!

"Brown" Dobes are called red, but I had this neighbor who insisted that the red color in a Dobe is called "chocolate".  Ummm, nope!

The dilute of the reds is fawn or also called "Isabella" - looks like a beige color.
Here's a shot of Gracie and her fawn friend Velvet at the Dobe rescue.

The tan points on the Dobe are rust, but some folks will call the black dogs "black and tan".

Emma is a "Tan tri", which means that she's brown and white, with a bit of black mixed in.

Teenie is probably the "wild boar" color. She isn't clear red. The red stag and wild boar (I think) refer to reds with black ticking or tails.

I just LOVE isabella! I'd love a fawn dobie or an isabella doxie (two breeds I enjoy, regardless of looks.

Border collies have several "brown" colors - just like the breed, the names are divided into working and conformation camps:

bb liver like a red aussie or chocolate lab):  working - red (red tri if with tan points); conf - chocolate.  This color can be merle which is just merle to anyone, or dilute, which is called lilac in the conf world and just weird or maybe grey in the working world (it is seldom seen there).

ee yellow like a golden retriever or an Irish setter (black pigment):  this is what the conf people call red - the terminology is borrowed from Australian use, where the conformation Border collie was developed seperately from the working breed for 75 years.  This color is very seldom seen, again, in working lines.  It's dominant but the lines that it ran in have all but disappeared into the mists of time.  The blonde color that results from the lightest version of this "brown" color, was part of the inspiration for calling these imported show dogs "Barbie Collies".  But it can be a sandy brown, too, or even the Irish setter color.  This color can also appear in merle (champagne) and in theory dilute though it would be impossible to tell.

Sable - some working lines throw true saddleback sable with minimal black markings.  Most of the time these dogs are called simply "tris" (ie, black tris) but when the sabling is extensive, working dog terminology falls to pieces.  Sometimes they are called brindles, incorrectly, or sometimes black-and-tans.  Conf people use the collie/sheltie terminology but this color isn't seen much - possibly they feel unconfortable at closing the gap between collies and Border collies.

Brindle:  several working lines throw brindle and heavily extended tri.  There's no set name for these colors - you'll hear all sorts of descriptions - "That ticked up brown dog of yours"  "His old tan-faced female"  :"That dog with the brown up his sides".  Two traditional working BC names used to indicate a dog with lots of tan or brindling, Mirk and Hemp (which means brown like the rope they use in fishing nets).  Brindle, extended tri, and sable all tend to run in the sort of lines that are not "pretty" overall, so I don't think they've been seen here in the US where they are allowed in the breed ring. I do not believe they are allowed in the breed ring overseas.