Have you ever heard of....

….The Panda Shepherd?

The Panda Shepherd is in fact still a German Shepherd but is piebald colored. They are still a very strong and well proportioned dog yet the coat is 35% white with the remainder being black and tan, though the blood line doesn’t have white German Shepherd throughout its ancestry. This piebald color has occurred in a single German Shepherd bloodline. 

The Panda Shepherd has very little difference from a German Shepherd other than it’s coloring and the single blood line was bred through two pure German Shepherds in the U.S.A. The parents of the litter were a pure black and tan sire and a pure black dam. The entire little were pure black and tan except for the one Panda female, who also had two pure blue eyes. Many tests were conducted to determine how such a strange thing could occur. Both parents were deemed to be pure German Shepherds and neither had white German Shepherd blood lines. After this, the same parents were breed and produced another 3 litters, all pups were pure black and tan. 

The Panda pup, named Frankie was bred, once matured, to a traditional colored black and tan. Out of the four pups she bred three turned out with the Panda coat but did not produce the blue eyes that she did. 

 A common black and tan Shepherd with a Panda Shepherd.