The German Shorthaired Pointer comes in eight different colors, and among those eight colors is black, white, black and white, liver, liver and white, black roan, liver and white, and liver roan. Typically, the dog’s nose hints at the dog’s color. A liver colored dog will have liver noses, a black GSPs will have a black nose, and so on.

Not long ago, a friend of NPDD advised us of the importance of noting that the Germans specifically developed a brown and white breed because they felt it better camouflaged their hunting dogs in the forests. Black was added through a cross to English Pointers around 1900, but it was kept as a separate breed they called, “Prussian Pointers,” until 1924 when they were added to the Shorthair stud book. Because of the historical preference for brown (called liver), there have always been a very small percentage of black dogs bred in Germany. Depending on the color of the parents, there may be liver and black puppies in the same litter. A black and (white) ticked dog bred to a solid liver is capable of producing solid liver, liver and ticked, solid black and black and ticked all in the same litter.

Our thanks to Sandra Kretz for this very interesting information!

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