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Thanks, my Grandfather kept telling me about his dogs in Sicily, and his favorite was a "Ghost" since hes no longer with us I had to keep looking until I found this one...( I was looking for a light blue/gray) but then I saw this pup he really stood out from his black, Blue and dk fawn with dk mask brothers..heres a cut and paste Coat’s colour Another element characterizing a dog’s tegument is the coat’s[1] colour. Is well known that in some animals the colour is extremely important for the survivor or the predation because allow them to camouflage in the surroundings. For the Cane Corso, not existing these kind of motivations[2], the coat’s colour – beyond some belief [3] – has always been a secondary aspect except for the fact that for some tasks were employed subjects that, under the same conditions of “work capacity and efficacy”, had a colour that would have “mimetically” favor them in the task [4]. So, for example, in the badger’s hunts – that were usually conducted during the night – were used “grey fawn (formentino)” coloured dogs to recognize them easily in the dark of the night, while for the watch-dogs were favored (always under the same conditions of aptitude) those with a dark coat because they could be better camouflaged in the darkness. The coat’s colour in a Cane Corso change depending on the different genetic blood lines; monochromatic coats comprend the black coat [5], fawn coat (in the different tonalities: dark, stag red and light), grey coat (in the different tonalities: slate, light and lead), brown coat and the grey fawn coat that, sometimes, could be so light to appear nearly white. [color=red]Among the most traditional and ancient coats we have the “ashen” coat (consisting in a mix of white and black hair), honey-coloured coat (consisting in a prevalence of fawn hair with some white or yellow hair which chromatic aspect remind the honey one)[/color] and a kind of coat made by two or three components consisting in a monochromatic found, interrupted by more or less visible streaks, large and delicate, called, according their characteristic direction and disposition, “brindled, straked or winding (serpature)”[6]. Link http://www.corsoluv.com/Cane_Corso_Infomation_CANE_CORSO_COAT_COLORS.html