How do you tell them apart?

My goodness. How does a mother tell her children apart? They barely even resemble each other. Kirby has a high forehead and a cleft dome whereas Tiki's head is flatter and his eyelids are blacker.

Oh. You probably want something more obvious and simpler.

OK. The first two are Tiki. His collar and bling are red and he is often wearing a harness. He is a tri-color with blue ticking, which is a snotty purebred dog association way of saying he is the classic beagle black-tan-white combination but with spots. He has brown spots on his legs and black spots on his belly and chest. Also, Tiki has a white blaze between his eyes and another one down the back of his neck.






Kirby is a plain tri-color. His bling is blue, and he has no spots. His chest and legs are white.




They are both gorgeous, if you ask me.

Because they're rescue beagles, their parentage is unverifiable, so I don't know whether they are purebred or not.


UPDATE:

Someone, and I'm not naming names, lost Kirby's combination collar when he, I mean, this unnamed person, dropped The Boys off at the dog spa and resort. Kirby will be wearing Tiki's red combination collar until we get around to replacing the blue one. For the time being, Tiki is the one with the red bling, but the blue harness, and Kirby has the blue bling, but a red collar in addition to his regular blue collar. How's that for color coding?