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Sedona, Arizona
Black American Bully for Sale
Nothing black in the current group, and I’d sooner tell you that than steer you toward a coat that is close and hope you don’t look twice. Everything I do have is further down.
I’ve no black puppies in the current group. The coat is common in the breed, and the first thing worth saying is that scarcity and quality are two separate measurements. I’m Greg Harpson, I’ve bred American Bullies here since 2015, and coat is the last thing I select for, well behind temperament and behind structure.
Nothing black standing this week
Coats turn over litter by litter, and dressing up a near match as the real thing helps nobody. Tell me the coat you’re set on and I’ll say plainly whether it’s on the way. What’s actually here is just below.
Here’s what is here instead
These coats are in the group today, and I’ve put the nearest thing to black at the front so you can judge it for yourself.
The genetics behind a black coat
Full, undiluted pigment and nothing else layered on. KB at the K locus gives solid colour with no dilution and no pattern overlay. Genetically it is the simplest coat the breed has.
Reading a black, and what it gets muddled with
Confused with seal, which reads black in most light but throws a reddish or brownish cast under direct sun. A true black holds black even under a hard light. It is a distinction almost nobody bothers with commercially, which is part of why black stays honest ground for a buyer.
Where black sits in the breed
Black is the most overlooked coat in the breed and, measured by anything other than fashion, the one with the fewest strings attached. No dilution gene, so no coat condition risk. No merle, so no hearing or sight risk. It is just a dog carrying full pigment. It is also the coat that shows a dog’s structure most clearly, because there is no pattern breaking up the outline, which is why breeders and judges often like to assess an animal in black. If you care about the dog rather than the photograph, a good black is quietly among the soundest choices you can make here.
Common, unglamorous, and sold without any of the scarcity theatre that surrounds the fashionable coats, which from a buyer’s seat is entirely to the good. On every measure except fashion it is the same dog as the showier coat standing beside it in the pen.
To place it against its neighbours, here is how black compares on how scarce it really is and on how often buyers go looking for it. The coats beside it in the table are the ones people most often weigh against black.
What this coat means for the dog’s health
None. No dilution, so no coat condition. No merle, so no hearing or sight concern. No extensive white, so no white-linked deafness. There is nothing colour-linked to flag on a black.
Beyond the coat, the rest is about the breed rather than the colour. The full picture is here, and you can see how every coat lines up.
I don’t screen or certify the parents and I won’t pretend otherwise. What I do stand behind: every puppy is examined by Bell Rock Veterinary Clinic before it leaves, it has had DHPP with the booster and the canine influenza shot by ten weeks and been dewormed between two and ten weeks, the written record travels with it, and you take it to your own vet inside the first week. Any dog I breed can come back to me at any point in its life.
Set on a black?
Tell me what you’re after and I’ll say honestly whether it’s coming, rather than take a deposit against something I can’t promise.