Merle Staffordshire Terrier

Merle Staffordshire Terrier A merle Staffordshire terrier has a striking pattern. These dogs have irregular-shaped patches of diluted pigment, while the rest of their coats are fully pigmented. This is because only the diluted eumelanin (black) pigment is present in the merle patch. Merles are the product of a mutated gene, known as MC1R, in … Read more