yes, the bottum set, from the nursing female down, are all dapples. as they nurse from left to right are two silver dapples, a black & tan dapple, and a long hair patchwork silver dapple. we are registering the last one silver, but she is a cream. we won't register her as a cream because there aren't any creams in her dams pedigree. cream is recessive like th, pha, and angus red gene; both parents have to be carriers for the baby to have it. Dad is a pedigreed carrier but moms breeder wouldn't know cream if it were in his soup bowl (i guess he would have been called a multiplier rather than breeder). the nursing female is a patchwork red dapple piebald.
the puppy that gage, the youngest whom turns 2 tomorrow, holds is a dark red dapple. he was the only one in his litter and is spoiled rotten. when he was four weeks old, he and mom went on a labor day weekend trip to visit my in-laws. my three nephews got to stay with the grandparents that weekend ; 10 people, 6 < 17 years of age, in a 3BR house is a blast. on friday night, one of the 15 yo twin nephews, whom i am certain was deprived of O2 during his birth experience, took the mom outside to do outside things and managed to scare her to death and chase her off to the running creek. we looked that entire weekend; covered about 5000ac with no luck. braindead nephew had to sleep with puppy that weekend; he was pretty tired by monday. managed to keep him alive. if you ever need help keeping a puppy alive, i can help; we are getting to be pretty good at it. we thoought the mom was coyote food but believe it or not a family friend found her in a cattle guard on the 12th 11 days after she was chased away. she is now home and doing extremely well.
the middle group of pups, from gage down to the nursing litter, are the first litter out of a fa male we bought out of deplorable conditions as a puppy. it took her two weeks to quit growling viciously and another six to actually submit to touching, the litter consists of, from left to right in the litter picture, a long-hair dark red piebald, a long-hair black & tan dapple piebald, a chocolate dapple piebald (he will probably be sold as a stud), another dark red dapple piebald (although short-hair), and a chocolate & tan (the only female). shasta has progressed greatly in the last year or so; despite her wild beginning she got to whelp in a whelping bed in the floor on my wife's side of the bed just like all the other dogs.
the dogs are my wife's past-time but i am tinkering toward breeding a red-neck-roan.