Belgian Malinois Color Variations

For starters belgian malinois can also have one color.

Belgian malinois color variations. Their main color is fawn which is a golden yellow color to a yellowish tan and even mahogany. Fawn with a black mask. Sable is generally less red mahogany is more red fawn is typically tannish yellowish to so pale a yellow it is almost white hence the grey dog. The color variations appear in all varieties of belgian shepherds and lines are more likely to influence color than variety by itself.

The belgian malinois pronounced mal in wah is a medium size belgian shepherd dog that at first glance resembles a german shepherd dog. Sable is also used to describe the grey dogs as well. The mask and ears should always be black though. Then in the case of dutch shepherds there s more variety.

The nose is black without discolored areas the lips are tight and black with no pink showing on the outside the belgian malinois has a full complement of strong white teeth that are evenly set and meet in a scissors or level bite overshot and undershot bites are a fault an undershot bite in which two or more of the upper incisors lose contact with two or more of the lower incisors is a disqualification. Their ears are black the back of their heads are also darker and they have a black mask on their face. Malinois are shorthaired fawn colored dogs with a black. They may have white on their tails.

Where the malinois has short coarse hair the german shepherd has longer hair that is soft to the touch.