Ahhh yes...thanks for the links. I remember reading about that now...and probably forgot because it made my head spin. LOL (Or it could be because the memory portion of my brain is made entirely of swiss cheese!)

It's certainly an interesting discussion...and I think we have years of breeding ahead before we start to pin down any definitive answers about the leopard.

And I'm not disagreeing with the possibility that het pieds are actually co-dom morphs resulting in the pied in its super form....it's just still my current opinion that the "visual" het pied is simply too variable and too subtle to consistently pick out in a crowd of normals. But that is simply my very inexperienced opinion based more on years of anecdotes and online imagery than on actual hands-on experience. As I said...those who actually breed pieds and have been working with them for years may be able to spot subtle differences that I can't.