New litter

It is with great pleasure that I announce the birth of 8 puppies, safely and easily delivered by Friendy on July 18.

Individual posts on each pup will be published shortly.

Ndougouman, Toubab Dialaw, Petite Côte, Sénégal

When I was in Senegal, I noticed that the dogs were slightly taller (about 55cm/ 22in at the withers) than our Gulf of Guinea dogs. They also have softer ears that are quite mobile, but floppy when at rest.

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Achimota, Accra, Ghana

A couple of tricolour puppies for sale at the roadside in Achimota, a suburb of Accra. Whether their black overlay and part of the tail will remain that way in adulthood is less than certain, a lot of local dogs being born with an overlay and / or a tail that is up to two-thirds black, but don't show a single trace of black once fully grown.

Here is an example with one of my own dogs: on the first two pictures, he's about six months old and clearly shows a dark overlay and two thirds of the tail are almost completely black.

Only one year later, he is the most uniformly red dog I've ever met.

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