I would be delighted to have you translate this article for your website! Please go ahead…

Cheers,
Jim Ha

This article is so interesting, i’ve already read something in Journal of Vet Behavior about this topic, and it’s surprisely how many factors affect (in different ways and proportions) phenotypic behavior of small animal.

Dr. Ha, I wonder if I could post a translate version of your article in our web site (http://tea-ethos.blogspot.com/) for people, veterinarians and all concerns get information about this item.

Thanks for your attention. Greetings and Merry Christmas!!!

I think that some of the best sources to keep an eye on are the science news summaries, like ScienceMag.org, ScienceDaily.com, and ScienceNews.org… they freq feature and summarize for the advanced layperson good articles about dog behavior.

Cheers,
Jim

No, there is very little scientific evidence of any relationships between coat color and behavior, other than the studies I cited above… that’s what made these so interesting. They are very preliminary, of course, but thought-provoking, and all the more so because we now understand how coat color is controlled through the genes in dogs, according to a more recent study that I found while researching your question.

So we know how chocolate, and most other coat colors, are produced in dogs (the same genes, it appears, that determine coat color in all other mammals). This allows us to understand how coat color might be related to, or “predict”, behavior, at least, behavior which has a genetic component to it, as we believe that most behavior does.

So, other than a study from a few years ago that indicates that chocolate-coat dogs are slightly more likely than random to be adopted from shelters (brindles were significantly LESS likely to be adopted), there is no other scientific literature on coat color and behavior!