#10 As for the color, initially it had three options: black dogs with long hair (Groenendael), red-brown short-haired (Malinois), gray wire-haired (Laquenois).

#11 However, this is the exclusion of many securities from dilution. Their resentful owners set up their own club and bred dogs in various shades of black, gray and brown.

#12 In 1885 the two clubs merged and the standard was changed.
