Finn is gorgeous, and I love your avatar. We were lucky enough to see three of Stroder's littermates when we picked him up. IW Mom and 10 pups were dumped and animal control ended up with them. IW Mom was picked up by an IW Breed Rescue, and pups were being adopted out. Of the four pups, none of them were alike--you'd never figure they were from the same litter. Strider was the only true merle--one was "frosted" grey--almost like a roan horse, with a short dane coat, one was a mantle with the longer fur, like a IW, and the last one was mantle with a short coat. Strider is really daney in appearance, except his face. He has the longer narrower face of an IW, less square qnd boxy face and head, tighter lips than a dane.Apparentl y he is less of a drooler too (Thank goodnes!!!), I've only had him drool once, because he really wanted a piece of my orange and I was making him wait and behave til I only had one piece left. I looked down and the poor guy was sitting in a drool puddle, and looked like he tried to swallow a tennis shoe and couldn't get the laces down. LOL
Stella