Solid Pointers are somewhat uncommon in much of the world (though they’re seen more often in Scandinavian countries, and part of Europe than in America), and very rarely, a tricolor Pointer is born, but as the Pointer Club of America states: “A good Pointer cannot be a bad color.”

Some cynologists believe that solid colored Pointers are the result of a cross made many, many generations ago to the Greyhound (which may account for the breed’s highly developed eyesight and its regal demeanor).  We’ve also heard some people wonder if solid colored Pointers aren’t lighter in substance and bone, but this is often an optical illusion.

Most solids carry the recessive for parti-color which means that when one is bred to a parti-color, about half the puppies will be solid-colored (and carrying the recessive for parti-color).  As recessives, the parti-colored pups won’t produce solids, or carry for it.  We get a “pure for solid” puppy by mating of two hybrid solids where approximately 75% of the litter will be solid-colored, and around 25% being “pure for solid.”

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