My Juneau is a chocolate and white border collie. She too had 8 pups. 6 girls/2boys. Her mate was Flynn, a lilac merle (mostly tan color) All the pups are very pretty. The were born last May. 1 male tricolor, mostly chocolate, 1 male tricolor lilac merle, 5 lilac merle females and 1 chocolate and white female. Juneau is a good mama, like Abby.