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Sedona, Arizona
Lilac American Bully for Sale
3 lilac puppies are standing with me in Sedona right now, raised in the house and seen by my vet before they go home.
Yes, there are 3 lilac American Bully puppies for sale here today. 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.
The other coats here this week
If lilac turns out not to be the one, here are the rest of the coats in the current group, closest to lilac first.
The genetics behind a lilac coat
Chocolate and dilution together: b/b at the B locus and d/d at the D locus in the same dog. Both parents have to carry both recessives for a lilac to appear, which is the whole reason it does not turn up by chance.
Reading a lilac, and what it gets muddled with
Taken for champagne and for a washed-out blue. Lilac comes from chocolate plus dilution, so it holds a brown warmth that blue never shows and a grey depth that champagne never reaches. The nose is the reliable check once again: a lilac reads a dusty mauve.
Where lilac sits in the breed
Lilac sits at the crossing point of two recessives, and that crossing point is the entire reason it is uncommon. Here is something worth knowing as a buyer: because it needs both parents to carry both genes, a kennel turning out lilac reliably is breeding deliberately for colour rather than stumbling into it. That is not automatically a bad thing, but it is fair to ask what else such a programme is selecting for, because a programme that puts coat first has quietly told you where its priorities sit. Mine is not one of them. Colour is the last thing I choose on.
Genuinely scarce, with the genetics to earn the label, which puts it in the company of coats the market pushes hard. Keep the two measurements apart in your head: scarce and well-bred are not the same word, and a lilac from a programme chasing colour is not a better dog than a plainer one from a programme chasing temperament.
To place it against its neighbours, here is how lilac 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 lilac.
| Coat | Rarity | Monthly searches |
|---|---|---|
| Lilac | Rare | 170/mo |
| Chocolate | Uncommon | 110/mo |
| Champagne | Rare | 110/mo |
| Lilac Merle | Very rare | 170/mo |
| Blue | Common | 590/mo |
What this coat means for the dog’s health
Colour dilution alopecia, since a lilac is a diluted dog by definition. The same D locus condition that follows the blue coats follows this one.
Plenty of diluted dogs carry a perfect coat their whole lives, so this is a thing to understand rather than a thing to fear. It isn’t painful and it isn’t dangerous. It is permanent once it appears, it needs managing, and it is tied specifically to the diluted coats, which is a detail the glossiest listings tend to leave out.
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.
Asking after a lilac puppy
Tell me roughly where you are and I’ll walk you through getting the puppy to you, whether that is me meeting you within a couple of hours of Sedona, ground transport, or a nanny who flies the puppy home in the cabin. I’ll also give you an honest read on whether this one fits your household.