Description: The White Aussies Project is dedicated to presenting information on homozygous merle dogs (also know as double merles, or incorrectly labeled as lethal whites), with emphasis on Australian Shepherds.
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This website began as a discussion topic on an Australian Shepherd list. A small circle of list members combined their talents to pull together some information on white Aussies. Our goal was to produce educational materials, for everyone's benefit.
The first project was to create a brochure. This brochure is available for anyone who wants it, to hand out wherever they wish. As we were working on it, we realized the limitations: there was so much more information that we wanted to include, but size constraints prevented us from doing so.
So the idea of a website was born. This website exists to help explain white coloration in dogs, as clearly as possible. It was constructed by Aussie folks, which explains why Aussies compromise the majority of the pictures! Some of the terminology is Aussie specific as well. Please be advised though, that much of the information is truly applicable to other breeds as well.