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Sedona, Arizona
Chocolate Tri American Bully for Sale
Nothing chocolate tri 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 chocolate tri puppies in the current group. The coat is rare 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 chocolate tri 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 chocolate tri at the front so you can judge it for yourself.
The genetics behind a chocolate tri coat
b/b at the B locus turns every scrap of black pigment in the dog brown, and over that sit at tan points and white markings for the third colour. The brown nose is the quickest tell, since a true chocolate browns the nose leather where a dark seal keeps it black.
Reading a chocolate tri, and what it gets muddled with
Taken for black tri, especially in photographs shot in shade where everything reads darker. The difference is in the pigment, not the coat: a chocolate tri is brown throughout, so the nose is brown, while a black tri with a sun-faded coat still carries a black nose. This one is easy to check and well worth checking.
Where chocolate tri sits in the breed
Chocolate tri is quietly one of the more sensible choices among the fashionable coats, for a reason that has nothing to do with looks: it carries none of the health baggage the diluted coats do. It is not diluted, so there is no colour dilution alopecia to worry about, and it has no connection to merle at all. If the tri pattern is what drew you in and you are weighing a chocolate tri against a lilac tri, the chocolate is the lower-risk dog of the two, full stop.
Genuinely uncommon, and it earns that without any of the risks that cling to the merle and diluted coats, which makes it a steadier buy than its scarcity alone would suggest. It does not get sold as aggressively as the merles, which is to your advantage as a buyer who is reading carefully.
To place it against its neighbours, here is how chocolate tri 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 chocolate tri.
What this coat means for the dog’s health
Nothing specific to the coat. Chocolate is full pigment rather than diluted, so the dilution alopecia that follows the blue and lilac coats simply does not apply here.
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 chocolate tri?
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.