What exactly is a BLUE WOLFDOG? Ever seen a wolfdog with that smoky, steel-grey, almost blue coat and wondered… what on earth is that? A blue wolfdog isn’t a breed — it’s simply a wolfdog that carries the dilution gene, the same gene that turns black pigment into that soft silvery “blue.” Genetically, it’s just a regular wolfdog… with a colour twist. So where does the blue come from? Not wolves — because in the wild, blue is not a natural wolf colour. The blue gene always comes from the dog side