Weimaraner Puppies Blog

To make it short: practically nothing.
The commonly known Weimaraner is called gray, the blue Weimaraner is considered rare, and is quite controversial. However, the breed is the same, only the colors differ, the Weimaraner Club of America voted to disqualify the blue coat color in 1971.
But why? How did it all start?
The first blue Weimaraner, Tell was imported from Germany to the US in the late 1940’s. First, the German Weimaraner Club considered him as purebred, so the AKC accepted it too, but not long after, the GWC changed their point of view. Most of the papers have disappeared through the World War, and it is still controversial if Tell was crossbred, or simply a strongly dark-colored Weimaraner. They can take part in AKC events, but aren’t recognized as purebred Weimaraners.

Want to know some more interesting facts about your Weimaraner? Take a look at this change the trivial things into points of discussion when you meet your friends and fellow dog lovers! The Weimaraner’s popularity was due to the efforts and creativity of an American photographer named William Wegman, who used his dog, Man Ray to pose as a model wearing various costumes. In the art world, Wegman and his works are very well recognized.

Having his dog pose in various positions and various themes such as posing with a banjo, balancing itself on a bridge, imitating real life situations wherein they are doing human chores, as well as aesthetically fun scenes. William Wegman’s eye for photography has certainly brighten and added to the artistic collective as well as given the world a very different way of looking at the Weimaraner!

This wonderful video captures the magic of a Weim. Starring “Gypsy”…

The Weimaraner has a short,fine, sleek gray coat. The color ranges from a mouse gray to a silver gray. The distinctive color led to this breed being nicknamed the Silver Ghost or Gray Ghost. The Weimaraner’s coat color is a rarity among dog breeds. Every so often an even rarer blue color can be found. The warm, slate-gray color, otherwise known as “blue” in the Weimaraner dog is the result of what the science of genetics calls a mutation. Available evidence appears to indicate that this same mutation has appeared at rare intervals during the entire history of the breed. So far as is known, this blue mutation has occurred only twice in the last quarter of a century, both times in Europe. A famous example of a “blue Weimaraner” was called: “Natassja’s Stormy Sky” as can be seen below. Strangely enough: the blue color in the Weimaraner is dominant over the more common silver-gray color, when speaking Genetics. The blue color is definitely not a recessive trait, as was incorrectly believed to be. However, the majority of Weimaraners remain the better-known gray.The blue Weimaraners in America are direct descendants of one of Germany’s most renowned Weimaraner families. Blue Weimaraners are just as pure-bred as any gray that ever lived; their continued existence constitutes no threat to the future of the breed, other than the continuing defeat of other bloodlines by his offspring, either blue or gray.

The Gray color:

The Blue color: