Tri-color is NOT black spots on a liver dog. The dog is actually striped, and is NOT a mixture of black and liver. These two obviously brindle-marked dogs are also purebred Dalmatians. The dog on the left was registered as a liver - because they KNEW he wasn't black, and figured he must be liver. Brindle is not a color, but rather a pattern of dark stripes on a fawn background.
Geneticists disagree on the exact inheritance of brindle.
For a larger sharper brindle picture click here . These tri-colored Dalmatians also carried the genes for brindle. The black spotting covers the brindling over most of the body, but the brindling shows through in the tan areas. Mosaics These dogs are not tri-colors. These dogs each have a single spot of a different color.