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Dog pattern
Parti-colour
White with clearly defined patches of one or more colours, usually at least half white: parti-colour Poodles, Cocker Spaniels and Yorkshire Terriers.
44 Dog breeds list Parti-colour. It is in a club standard for 31 breeds. At least one club disqualifies it in 16 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept Parti-colour
| Breed | FCI | AKC | UKC | KC | KUSA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Cocker Spaniel | Standard (“Parti-Colour variety”) | Standard (“Parti-Color Variety”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“Parti-colours”) | Standard (“Parti-Colour Variety”) |
| American Cocker SpanielParticolour | Standard (“Parti-Colour variety”) | Standard (“Parti-Color Variety”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“Parti-colours”) | Standard (“Parti-Colour Variety”) |
| American Staffordshire Terrier | Standard (“particolour, or patched”) | Standard (“Patched”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“parti-colour, or patched”) |
| Azawakh | Disqualifying (“invasive white”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“parti-color”) | Not recognised | Disqualifying (“invasive white”) |
| Brittany | No ruling | Standard (“the standard parti-color or piebald patterns”) | No ruling | Not recognised | No ruling |
| Central Asian Shepherd Dog | Standard (“Any”) | Standard (“Any”) | Standard (“parti-colored”) | No ruling | Standard (“Any colour”) |
| Chihuahua | Standard (“All colours in all possible shades and combinations are admitted”) | Standard (“Any color - Solid, marked or splashed”) | Standard (“All colors in all shades and combinations are acceptable”) | Standard (“Black Particolour”) | Standard (“Any colour or mixture of colours”) |
| English Cocker Spaniel | Standard (“Particolours”) | Standard (“Parti-colors”) | Standard (“PARTI-COLORS”) | Standard (“Particolours”) | Standard (“Particolours”) |
| German Spitz | Standard (“coats with patches (Medium, Miniature)”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“parti-colors”) | Standard (“Black & White Particolour”) | Standard (“parti-colour”) |
| German SpitzGiant | Disqualifying (“any colour not mentioned in section "Colours"”) | Standard (“parti-color of black, brown and sable”) | Standard (“parti-colors”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Greyhound | Standard (“any of these colours broken with white”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“Immaterial”) | Standard (“any of these colours broken with white”) | Standard (“any of these colours broken with white”) |
| Havanese | No ruling | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“All colors are acceptable; singly or in any combination”) | Standard (“Particolour”) | No ruling |
| Irish Red and White Setter | Standard (“Base colour white with solid red patches (clear islands of red colour)”) | Standard (“Red Patched”) | Standard (“a large, red and white parti-colored dog”) | Standard (“Clearly particoloured”) | Standard (“Base colour white with solid red patches (clear islands of red colour)”) |
| Lhasa Apso | Standard (“parti-colour”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“All colors are acceptable”) | Standard (“parti-colour”) | Standard (“parti-colour”) |
| Löwchen | Standard (“All colours and combinations of colours are permitted”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“All colors and color combinations are acceptable”) | Standard (“Particolour”) | Standard (“All colours and combinations of colours are permitted”) |
| Nederlandse Kooikerhondje | Standard (“orange-red parti-coloured”) | Standard (“orange-red parti-colored”) | Standard (“Distinct patches of clear orange-red color on a white background”) | Standard (“orange-red parti-coloured”) | Standard (“orange-red parti-coloured”) |
| Otterhound | No ruling | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is acceptable”) | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is acceptable”) | Standard (“Particolour”) | No ruling |
| Papillon | Standard (“All colours are admitted on a coat with a white background”) | Standard (“Always parti-color or white with patches of any color(s)”) | Standard (“The Papillon is always parti-colored”) | Standard (“White with patches, which may be any colour except liver”) | Standard (“White with patches: may be any colour except liver”) |
| Pekingese | Standard (“Parti-colours evenly broken”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“All colors and markings are equally permissible”) | Standard (“Parti-colours evenly broken”) | Standard (“Parti-colours evenly broken”) |
| Pomeranian | Standard (“coats with patches (white always as basic colour)”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“parti-color”) | Standard (“parti-coloured dogs”) | Standard (“parti-coloured dogs”) |
| Poodle (Miniature) | Standard (“Parti-coloured dogs, two colours”) | Disqualifying (“Parti-colored dogs shall be disqualified”) | No ruling | Not recognised (“Particolour”) | Not recognised |
| Poodle (Standard) | Standard (“Parti-coloured dogs, two colours”) | Disqualifying (“Parti-colored dogs shall be disqualified”) | No ruling | Not recognised (“Particolour”) | Not recognised |
| Poodle (Toy) | Standard (“Parti-coloured dogs, two colours”) | Disqualifying (“Parti-colored dogs shall be disqualified”) | No ruling | Not recognised (“Particolour”) | Not recognised |
| Saluki | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours is permissible”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is permissible”) | Standard (“Black & White Particolour”) | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours permissible”) |
| Shih Tzu | Standard (“white tip to tail highly desirable in parti-colours”) | Standard (“All are permissible”) | Standard (“All colors and markings are acceptable”) | Standard (“white tip to tail highly desirable in parti-colours”) | Standard (“white tip to tail highly desirable in parti-colours”) |
| Spanish Mastiff | Standard (“parti-coloured”) | Standard (“parti-coloured”) | Standard (“parti-colored”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Spanish Water Dog | Standard (“Bicoloured: White and black or white and brown in their different shades”) | Standard (“parti-color where one of the colors must be white”) | Standard (“Bi-color. White and any shade of black or brown”) | Standard (“black and white or brown and white (particolour)”) | No ruling |
| Tibetan Spaniel | Standard (“All colours and mixture of colours permissible”) | Standard (“Parti-Color”) | Standard (“All colors and combinations of colors are acceptable”) | Standard (“Particolour”) | Standard (“All colours and mixture of colours permissible”) |
| Tibetan Terrier | Standard (“parti-colour”) | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors including white are acceptable”) | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors, including white, are acceptable”) | Standard (“parti-colour”) | Standard (“parti-colour”) |
| Tornjak | Standard (“parti-coloured with distinct markings of various solid colours”) | Standard (“parti-coloured with distinct markings of various solid colours”) | Standard (“parti-colored, with distinct markings of various solid colors”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Whippet | Standard (“parti-colour”) | Standard (“Color immaterial”) | Standard (“Color is inconsequential”) | Standard (“Black & White Particolour”) | Standard (“particolours”) |
Breeds where Parti-colour is a fault
| Breed | FCI | AKC | UKC | KC | KUSA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouvier des Flandres | No ruling | Fault (“parti-color ... to be severely penalized”) | Fault (“parti-color dogs”) | Fault (“white predominating ... highly undesirable”) | No ruling |
| Miniature Schnauzer | Fault (“Patchy coat in the colours black/silver and white”) | Disqualifying (“Parti-Color”) | Disqualifying | Not recognised (“Parti Black & White”) | Not recognised |
| Tibetan Mastiff | Disqualifying (“All other colours than above mentioned e.g. ... particolours”) | Disqualifying (“All other coat colors (e.g., ... particolors)”) | No ruling | Fault (“parti-colour ... undesirable”) | Disqualifying (“All colours other than above-mentioned e.g. ... particolours”) |
Breeds where Parti-colour is disqualified or not accepted
| Breed | FCI | AKC | UKC | KC | KUSA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Shar-Pei | Disqualifying (“patches”) | Disqualifying (“parti-colored”) | Disqualifying (“parti-colored”) | Not recognised (“Black & White Flowered”) | Disqualifying (“patches”) |
| Kangal Shepherd Dog | No ruling | No ruling | Disqualifying (“other parti-colored patterns”) | Not recognised | No ruling |
| Puli | Disqualifying | Not recognised | Disqualifying (“parti-colors”) | Not recognised | Disqualifying |
| Pumi | Disqualifying | Disqualifying (“parti-colored”) | Disqualifying | Not recognised | Disqualifying |
| Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka | No ruling | Disqualifying (“parti-color”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Sloughi | Disqualifying | Disqualifying | Disqualifying (“Extensive white markings such as parti-color”) | Not recognised | Disqualifying |
| Vizsla | Disqualifying (“Parti-coloured, not uniformly coloured”) | No ruling | No ruling | Not recognised | Not recognised |
| Wirehaired Vizsla | Disqualifying (“Particoloured, not uniformly coloured”) | No ruling | No ruling | Not recognised | Disqualifying (“Parti-coloured, not uniformly coloured”) |
| Yorkshire Terrier | No ruling | Disqualifying | No ruling | Not recognised | Not recognised |
| Chow Chow | Not recognised (“not ... parti-coloured”) | No ruling | No ruling | Not recognised (“not ... parti-coloured”) | Not recognised (“not ... particoloured”) |