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I'm curious. I just got my first Showdog Boxer (though I have had them in RL) and looking at the Boxer Specialty, I see that there is a white Boxer entered. I thought they were inadmissable per AKC standards.

On the Showdog game, colors that would be considered a fault in real life AKC shows can be shown.

Gotcha.

So you can show white GSDs?

Any color in any breed that exists in the game can be shown.

I breed Dachshunds and if I wanted, I could show and finish a double dapple dog.

Alexandria

They can't be shown in RL but in the game of SD colours are just for fun and have no impact on showing.

Yes, undesired colors in certain breeds in RL are show able in the game however some breeds when making their color/genetic modules chose to exclude some colors from the game, GSDs for instance, white does not exist, and neither does "panda" and their are no long coats. These are disqualifying faults in RL, where Livers, and Blues are just seen as "serious faults".

Yes, this is a decision that was taken at the breed level. In poodles, the color requirements follow AKC breed standards.

K

I believe some of the colours in certain breeds were omitted because the coding was very difficult. I.e. The white in gsd's and in malamutes we hard trouble coding Pure whites and black and whites, so for the sake of the game and making things easier we opted to leave them out, even though in RL both are absolutely allowable, showable colours.

Actually, in GSDs in RL, longcoats are not a DQ, and blues and livers ARE a DQ, because they do not have black noses. Just wanted to clarify that.

It's true, gsd's with long coats are only a minor fault and can and do finish their championships.

I always thought liver and blues often didn't survive to adult hood because of genrtic conditions associated with those colour genes? I could be wrong but I thought I once read or heard that.

White GSDs are showable in UKC and ARBA, which is a rare breed group, in the U.S., but not in AKC shows. Don't know about UK.