Fawn
Fawn puppies can be either lighter colored or darker when they’re born, and lighter or darker as adults depending on the fading gene they inherited. The AKC Standard says:
Shades of fawn from pale cream to red, with some black or gray shading desirable.
At Birth
Fawn puppies can be born light or dark colored. These are newborns:
As Babies
They gradually lighten as they grow older:
At 5-7 Months
By six months old, puppies can still have quite a bit of black on the the tips of their hair, but underneath you can see the fawn growing in.
A black and tan (DQ) will have black/grey going clear down to the roots (see DQ photos below).
Adults
An adult fawn Pumi with the correct gray shading will look like most of these below. Black or grey shading is desirable on a fawn, but even if they appear nearly white, on close examination there will be black hairs on the ears and tail.
Less Desirable – Apricot (ee)
Although the Wheaten standard calls for the black/grey to fade out, the Pumi standard prefers the gray shadings to distinguish it from “Apricot” (e gene- red/yellow/white gene). This color is not preferred because there are no grey shadings. But it’s not a disqualification.
Disqualifying Colors
The color disqualification in the AKC Pumi standard (“any multiple-color pattern or patches, e.g., black and tan pattern, piebald, parti-colored”) applies to dogs like these:
