It’s not unusual for this crossbreed to be tri-color. If the puppy follows in the footsteps of its Border Collie parent, it will usually sport a double coat. Once again, there are no rules here.

Coats can be black with white markings, red with white, bi-colored, tri-colored, merle, or sable. Border Collies ... that it causes rather than the color. The merle gene causes a mottling or ...