What is an Albino Doberman?
In November 1976, a mutation occurred with the whelping of a cream colored Doberman. Her sire, dam, and litter-mates were normal colored black and tans. She had pale blue eyes, pink nose, eye rims, pads and membranes. Where tan markings would be they were Albino. She was bred to a dominant black male, producing 14 black and tan pups. A male and female were kept and all ran loose. Her son sired her next litter, which contained 2 Albino males. He was also bred to his sister and her litter contained 2 Albino bitches. Later, these Albinos were bred together producing all Albinos. These dogs have been highly inbred and have multiplied at an enormous rate, and unfortunately they are being bred into our top show lines. While we can readily identify an Albino, we cannot detect the mutant gene which is carried by a great many of our normal colored dogs. It has been proven that the Albino mutation is not related to our dilution genes (blue and fawn). In 1982, the AKC approved the DPCA’s amendmen
