As long as one of the parents was dark you should be fine though if the parent was dark with the same merle *spotting in the coat color* pattern within the dark colors there's still a possibility of double merle genetic problems. Honestly the first thing I thought when I saw pictures was double merle too but lets hope he's not! Cute as a button though, hope the parasites go away sooner rather than later and if you have any more food questions, there are a ton of opinions to be found in the Dog Food and Recipes section
(I'm a huge sucker for merles) The little guy actually looks a lot like Steve (the border collie) with a totally merle and white coat. Hope the breeder wasn't mixing BC's in!
Thanks for the compliment..Also we went with the canidae all life stages any evrything seems to be ok. We do have to take back a stool sample to the vet to see if the meds worked for the parasite issue.
SIDE NOTE : not sure if this matters but the breeder point out all of rileys family members ....Grandparents ,Parents, Uncles, Aunts ,Cousins ...he had the entire family tree there!!! Unless it was BS???? I cant be 100% sure cause my wife and kids went to pick the puppy up.