german shepherd colour

Question
am looking at purchasing a german shepherd pup and am wondering about its colouring, at 3 weeks it was a greyish colour with a tinge of black here and there, its dad is balck/sable and absolute gorgous and exactly what we want, its mum is more of a greyish colour, there are 7 other pups in the litter, 3 females, all black and 4 males and they are all the similar smokey greyish colour, i was wondering if they change colour with maturity, or does mums colour dominate over dad, we are after a sable colour but am worried they will turn out grey, any ideas

Answer
Hi Russell,  All GSDs lighten up as they get older so if they have the sable color already, then just look at that to lighten up.  The black will diminish on the legs as they get older until they get their adult coat at a year of age.  There are a couple of different sable colors.  They grey is actually a grey sable, and there is also a red sable.  I think you are looking for that red sable look.  It's hard to judge color by mom because she has blown out all her coat due to hormones from giving birth, so her coat is not her true coat color.  Hope this helps,

Dawn