{"id":14867,"date":"2020-03-28T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/?p=14867"},"modified":"2020-03-28T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:24:23","slug":"jase-and-his-coat-of-many-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/jase-and-his-coat-of-many-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Jase and His Coat of Many Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we found Jase two years ago, he was a mostly black puppy with a little tan and a light-colored underbelly. As he grew, he changed colors. Apparently, this is a known trait for German Shepherds (I only got curious enough to look it up yesterday). <a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-11-16.12.18-e1521387494612.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14122\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-11-16.12.18-e1521387468919-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Jase (8-week-old shepherd\/lab puppy)\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a>I thought the coloration on him when we got him in March 2018 was really nice. Here he is in May 2018. Not a lot of change yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6495-e1525461039766.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14206\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6495-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jase\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>But here&#8217;s November 2018. He almost looks like a different dog &#8212; but still wonderfully cute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1547-e1542487080854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14461 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1547-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Jase\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-06-13.58.23-e1542487052955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14460 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-06-13.58.23-e1542486956958-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see the tan has spread up to his shoulders and haunches as well as on his head and muzzle. Here he is in May 2019 (back when Scooter would still give him the time of day).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-04-23-10.48.19-e1556987693157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14526 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-04-23-10.48.19-e1556987677751-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Jase and Scooter\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0904-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14869 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0904-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0904-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0904-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Here he is this morning (on the right). He&#8217;s molting again, and it looks like his &#8220;saddle&#8221; is about to become more pronounced. The article I read says German Shepherds get their final colors at two years old. Jase turned two in January, yet, he appears to still be changing. (A side note &#8212; look at the girth on his tail. I think the Labrador is strong there &#8212; what a rudder!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we found Jase two years ago, he was a mostly black puppy with a little tan and a light-colored underbelly. As he grew, he changed colors. Apparently, this is a known trait for German Shepherds (I only got curious enough to look it up yesterday). I thought the coloration <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/jase-and-his-coat-of-many-colors\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-14867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets","tag-jase"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018-07-12-09.27.34-HDR-e1531594713300.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14870,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions\/14870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}