another thing to keep in mind, since eventually someone will have pictures of siblings to try to guess - every dog in a litter can have a different father.
plus, if one of both parents are mixes, the pups can inherit traits that aren't expressed in the parent. So you can take a mom that is...
actually, herding is simply channeled prey drive. so many herding dogs will kill livestock more frequently than even some hunting breeds because they haven't been trained to channel that drive.
solid black is completely showable. and black GSDs are very very very common.
Fawns, however, are not as pale and washed out colors are faults in the breed.
Since the movie Max, everyone is wanting a Mal.
To the OP,
The problem with guessing breeds is that many traits are...
99% of Panda GSDs being sold are actually mutts. It is a spontaneous mutation that appeared in ONE dog. that was supposed to never be bred. Now you see them everywhere and most of them bear little resemblance to the breed. However, they do look a lot like cattle dogs and breeds that...