Caramel should be the color of real caramel. The range of color can vary between gold and red. Caramel coloured dogs need to have a brown (known as liver or rose) nose.

 

The difference between apricot and caramel is that apricot dogs have black noses and caramel dogs have brown noses.

 

All dogs with an "ee" pair will be Cream (cream means any of the following colors: white, cream, apricot, red, yellow (as in Labs), golden (as in Goldens)

• BBee is a cream dog

• Bbee is a cream dog carrying recessive brown

• bbee is a cream dog with brown pigment (caramel)

• Shades of those basic colours are modified by other genes