www.KissMyCocoa.com -- Show people would like the general public to think Chocolate Danes are the "current fad" with those of us breeding for them, however, the truth is they have been around since the mid-60's. Below are pictures of a chocolate brindle with a chocolate nose shown in 1971 in a Dane magazine! She was eventually disqualified for not having the black nose required for a "standard" brindle. However, a chocolate brindle is suppose to have a chocolate nose so, she was marked correctly for the color she was. At least her owner was able back then to show for a short time what was a truly beautiful dog. I'd also like to mention that Butterscotch came from color pure lines!
I'm often asked how I have the colors I do because it would be genetically impossible to come up with some of the colors I have (or anyone else) based on the information on their pedigree. Well, it's an unspoken tradition that breed standard/show breeders register their "off" colored puppies (those they allow to live) under the wrong color because they don't want others knowing their breed standard dogs are producing off colors.
Chocolates were/are registered incorrectly as blacks, dilute chocolate as blue, chocolate fawns and blue fawns as fawns, chocolate brindles as brindles, fawnequins, brindlequins and porcelains as harlequins, etc. However, thanks to AKC & CKC recognizing these off colors and assigning specific codes to most of them and to breeders like me who are correctly registering a puppy by it's true color, those of us breeding for designer Danes will start having accurate (color) pedigrees and one day have color pure lines of chocolate Danes! Check out the detailed color chart I've made on our web site; there are 64 color variations!
Designer Danes do have good conformation and size so, I guess they can not compete simply because of their color! This is the equivalent of the KKK in the dog world and it's a shame the show circuit isn't more evolved than that! Most show and breed standard breeders either euthanize or abandon their off colored puppies! We prefer to give them great homes!!
The ironic thing is many show people have admitted the designer colors are beautiful, they just would never breed for them. I've seen this statement time and again posted on their blogs, and that some actually own one or want to own one. What hypocrites! In other words, they think the designer colors are beautiful and want them, they just don't have the backbone to breed for them themselves.
It is a known fact, even with the show people, a dog is pure colour bred if it is "clean" of other colours in the pedigree for 5 generations and that is exactly what the goal of our breeding program is. Let's not forget that the mantle and harlequin were not always "accepted" breed standard colors.
Bottom line, if someone is not interested in showing in conformation classes then why shouldn't they be allowed to have the choice to own whatever color of Dane they want? After all, this is America, land of the FREE!
Chocolate Danes can be Service & Therapy K-9. Chocolate Danes can compete in Agility, Rally and Obedience. Chocolate Great Danes are loving, beautiful, healthy and make wonderful companions.
A chocolate Dane will have a brown nose. The chocolate Dane has been around since the mid 1960's.
A Dane can be a recessive chocolate and show no outwards signs of carrying the chocolate gene. There is a DNA test to check you Dane for the chocolate gene or you can research your Dane's pedigree. Kiss My Cocoa's goal is to breed chocolate Dane to chocolate Dane thus ending up with pure chocolate lines. Chocolate Danes can be solid chocolate, chocolate harlequin aka choclequin, chocolate merle and even chocolate brindle.
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