Ask the French Bulldog Geek - Tiger, Tiger, Burning.. striped?
admin August 5th, 2008
Hi! I am buying a French Bulldog puppy, but I am a bit confused. The Breeder says it is a “Tiger” French Bulldog, and I do not know what this means!
I know it sounds silly but I am afraid to ask her in case she thinks I’m an idiot. lol! Could you tell me?
Carol writes -
Oh, the joys of French Bulldog color terminology! Fraught with so much drama, so much terror, so much potential for misunderstandings.
One of the mixed joys of a breed with as much color diversity as French Bulldogs is the concurrent potential for misunderstanding. For example, I just watched as one of my favorite French Bulldog email lists battered itself to pieces over the topic “Clear Pieds - just what the hell does that mean, anyways?”. It was fun, like a boot to the head is fun.
For every color, there are a hundred different terms used to describe it, and a hundred people willing to tell you that your term of choice is wrong.
Take brindle, for example. Brindle is pretty simple, in theory. A fawn dog (aka tan or cream or reddish yellow or buttercup, or whichever beige/brown/gold shade you like), with a pattern of black stripes over top of it. Easy!
Or not.
Because for every brindle dog, there’s a difference in shading, or thickness of brindle stripes, or deepness of background coat color, or, or, or.
And so we come to ‘Tiger’. I’m going to assume that your future puppy is either a very orange dog, with thin black stripes, or a sort of orange dog with a lot of black stripes.
Of course, there’s always the possibility that what you’ve accidentally contacted is an exotic pet ranch, and they’re getting ready to ship you a tiger cub.
Photographs in advance would be highly recommended, just in case.
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