COAT COLORS WHITE and LEMON SABLE

WHITE & LEMON SABLE Lemon sable Papillons are an extremely pale shade of yellow or cream with interspersed black hairs. Unlike the other shades of sable, a lemon sables' color is produced by a separate gene which dilutes the red pigmented hairs to a pale yellow or cream shade. This diultion gene doesn't affect the black hairs so that is why lemon sables still have black hairs. This light coat color is caused by the same gene that produces the light shade of color in a lemon Papillon. The difference between a lemon sable and a lemon Papillon is that a former has black hairs whereas a lemon has no black hairs. Like lemon Papillons, lemon sable Papillons are usually born white or off-white. Unlike typical sables who lighten with age, lemon sables darken with age. Even though they darken with age, lemon sable Papillons will always remain a pale cream shade. They will not darken to a typical sable shade of red.

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BELOW ARE PICTURES OF WHITE & LEMON SABLE PAPILLONS AND PHALENES. . .

Above, Avonmoor White Crusader at Claretta, illustrates a lemon sable.	Above is another picture of Avonmoor White Crusader at Claretta. Although the picture is very small, you can see that he has some black in his fringe.

Above, Eng CH Caswell Copper Connection. You can clearly see the black hairs which are interspersed throughout his coat.	Above is another picture of Eng CH Caswell Copper Connection. He is illustrating the darkest that a lemon sable can be.

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