A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales. Thus a piebald black and white dog is a black dog with white spots. The a

Tri-coloured refers to a horse with three different coat colours in a pinto spotting pattern of large white and dark patches, usually bay and white. This colouring is also commonly called skewbald. In