What color is best?

[PrincessCare]

What color is most exciting on a dog? I've been thinking about this intensely lately and assume that dogs evolved the colors they have in order to hunt (maybe even people) in the wild. I dont get how some pungent colors like that orange dog someone posted a picture of earlier could manifest themselfs in nature? thoughts? intellectual replies only, please.

[Diana]

I think a dog's color is as much a product of her evolutionary background as it is of the hand of man. Many breeds' colors are a result of very particular breeding. For example, the orange color one finds one a Brittany is the result of breeding between a mahagony-colored breed and a yellow-breed.

[PrincessCare]

I think a dog's color is as much a product of her evolutionary background as it is of the hand of man.

OBVIOUSLY I was not talking about painting or dying your pets with your hands. I meant how they developed over tons of years.

[Louise]

LOL!! :D i don't think that's what she meant, princess!

[BigDogBruiser]

I'm not sure about all that. I've taken classes on genetics and how traits are passed on from one generation to the next, and from what I understand, if a red cock and a white hen get it on, the chick will be either red or white, not pink. I'm note sure if mixing yellow and brown makes orange in the dog world.