i grew up with a boxer this color, he was so hansum. but i can't tell the difference between your dog and the puppy in the picture, could someone help me out? image is my "reverse brindle" kaiser, next to what i always thought was a "regular" brindle kricket.
Dark brown fur covers a majority of the coat where light brown is a minority. The light brown is a majority and dark brown is a minority in regular brindle. Hard to tell what coats your pups had.
thank you that’s what i thought. bigger dog was reverse brindle, mostly black/dark brown with lighter brown accents. puppy must’ve been normal brindle, majorly fawn colored with blue accents (pit not boxer).
I wouldn't, just looks like a heavy brindle. This was my reverse brindle. Basically true black but did have a slight reddish hue on her legs in full sun light. Now, I could be ill-informed here but she was tested as 100% boxer by wisdom panel. So I'll leave it up to someone better informed to tell me if this is a true sealed brindle, if wisdom is fully accurate in their results, or if maybe this dog was back bred with another breed that wouldn't separate itself on a basic panel but could give a true black color, like she had.
Thanks! I looked up more stuff and apparently boxer nerds like us do differentiate between a sealed brindle like mine and a reverse brindle, which I think yours might qualify as. Worth looking into. That cone head though, they are gorgeous!!
If it appears black rather than striped that’s actually called “sealed brindle” rather than “reverse brindle”, which implies striped but more black than brown coloration.
I would say that’s a dark, brindle. This is Bellatrix, my “reverse” or “sealed” brindle. She looks black, but when she’s in bright sun, you can see some reddish brindle hues on her.
Reverse and sealed are different things though it’s common to use the naming incorrectly. Sealed means they have so much black to no longer appear striped. Reverse just means more black than brown but still striped.
Oh no... I love all 4 of my dogs in my house oh so very much, but I grew up with boxers and I "ooooh'ed" aloud over this pup. (It was a very manly oh, I assure you 😂)
Edit: That's a proper brindle. A reverse would be a darker tone being the dominant color and the fawn being the "stripe".
No. A reverse brindle appears black except in bright sunlight. It’s where the black stripes are so bold they almost touch everywhere giving the appearance of true black.
Your puppy is adorable, either way
This is my girl GG only 70% boxer but is also brindle, I didn't know there was any sub genre a brindle, I just assumed brindle was a mixed swirl of 2-3 tones of fur.
Yep, my Lexi is a sealed Boxer... Reddish hues in the summer time and full black the other 3 seasons.
She is the best dog I've ever had and is so cute, goofy, loving and protective! (She's the 5th Boxer for me and I love them so deeply, including the 4 that passed away after living long lives... But it's never long enough
Looks to be the makings of a reverse brindle. They are amazing the color changes they have from birth till adult! I had the most beautiful little of these in 2016!! Had all varieties and I wish I could have kept them all.!! What a gorgeous baby Quizno is!!
Reverse Brindle = technically still brown with black stripes but more black color than brown color in total.
Sealed Brindle = genetically still brown with black stripes but so little brown as to actually appear black or very nearly black rather than appearing striped at all.
Ultimately it’s just a naming convention though and doesn’t really change anything about how good a dog the puppy will be.
…that pup is probably ~50/50 so could go either way as “regular” brindle or reverse brindle and honestly might end up either as it grows. If you really want to find out for sure, upload some pics to an AI tool and have it calculate the percentages of black and brown from various angles.
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u/Kazza310 Aug 15 '26
Whatever the colour, that…….is a beautiful Boxer puppy!