Dog color
Silver
A bright, pale gray with a sheen: silver cats (white hair bases under dark tips), silver poultry and pigeons, silver-scaled fish, and the silver mane of a silver dapple horse.
64 Dog breeds list Silver. It is in a club standard for 55 breeds. At least one club disqualifies it in 12 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept Silver
| Breed | FCI | AKC | UKC | KC | KUSA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affenpinscher | Not recognized | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Not recognized | Not recognized |
| Afghan Hound | Standard (“All colours acceptable”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors are acceptable”) | Standard (“Black and Silver”) | Standard (“All colours”) |
| Akita | Standard (“any colour (American Akita)”) | Standard (“Silver, Black Overlay (Akita)”) | Standard (“any color including white (Akita)”) | Standard (“Silver & White (Akita)”) | Standard (“any colour (American Akita)”) |
| AkitaJapanese | Standard (“brindle”) | Standard (“Shimofuri (grey/silver)”) | No ruling | Standard (“Brindle: defined striping”) | Standard (“brindle”) |
| AkitaAmerican | Standard (“any colour”) | Standard (“Silver, Black Overlay”) | Standard (“any color including white”) | Standard (“Silver & White”) | Standard (“any colour”) |
| Alaskan Malamute | No ruling | Standard (“Silver & White”) | No ruling | Standard (“Silver & White”) | No ruling |
| American Cocker Spaniel | Standard (“Any solid colour other than black”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any solid color other than black (ASCOB)”) | Standard (“Silver Buff”) | Standard (“Any solid colour other than black”) |
| American Cocker SpanielASCOB | Standard (“Any solid colour other than black”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any solid color other than black (ASCOB)”) | Standard (“Silver Buff”) | Standard (“Any solid colour other than black”) |
| American Hairless Terrier | No ruling | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is allowed”) | Fault (“silver (the extreme dilution of blue) (Coated variety)”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Borzoi | Standard (“Any colours from white to black in any combination are acceptable”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is acceptable”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any colours from white to black in any combination are acceptable”) |
| Cairn Terrier | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Not recognized |
| Cesky Terrier | Not recognized | Standard (“any fairly uniform shade of gray ranging from charcoal to platinum gray”) | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Not recognized |
| Chihuahua | Standard (“All colours in all possible shades and combinations are admitted”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors in all shades and combinations are acceptable”) | Standard (“Any colour or mixture of colours”) | Standard (“Any colour or mixture of colours”) |
| Chinese Crested | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any color, or combination of colors, is acceptable”) | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours”) | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours”) |
| Czechoslovakian Vlcak | Standard (“silver-gray”) | Standard (“Silver Gray”) | Standard (“silver-gray”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Dutch Shepherd | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Standard (“Brindle, on either brown or gray ground”) | No ruling | Standard (“silver”) |
| German Shepherd | Standard (“black with ... light grey markings”) | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | Standard (“Black and Silver”) | Standard (“gold to light grey markings”) | Standard (“black with ... light grey markings”) |
| German Spitz | Standard (“black-and-silver (Medium, Miniature)”) | Standard (“black and silver”) | Standard (“all colors”) | Standard (“all colour varieties ... acceptable”) | Standard (“black-and-silver”) |
| German SpitzGiant | Disqualifying | Not recognized | Standard (“all colors”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Giant Schnauzer | Standard (“Black/Silver”) | Disqualifying (“Markings other than specified”) | Not recognized | Standard (“Black and silver”) | Standard (“Black and silver”) |
| Havanese | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors are acceptable; singly or in any combination”) | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours permissible”) | Not recognized |
| Irish Wolfhound | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“any other color that is found in the Deerhound”) | Not recognized | Not recognized |
| Keeshond | Standard (“Grey-shaded is a silver-grey with black hair-tips”) | Standard (“Silver & Black”) | Standard (“a mixture of gray, black and cream, which may vary from light to dark”) | Standard (“Silver Grey”) | Standard (“Grey-shaded is a silver-grey with black hair-tips”) |
| Kerry Blue Terrier | Standard (“Blue of any shade”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any shade of blue is permissible”) | Standard (“Any shade of blue”) | Standard (“Any shade of blue”) |
| Lhasa Apso | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors are acceptable”) | Standard (“any colour permissible”) | Not recognized |
| Löwchen | Standard (“All colours and combinations of colours are permitted”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors and color combinations are acceptable”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colours and combinations of colours are permitted”) |
| Miniature Schnauzer | Standard (“Black/Silver”) | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | Standard (“Black and Silver”) | Standard (“Black and silver”) | Standard (“Black and silver”) |
| Norwegian Elkhound | Standard (“Light grey undercoat”) | Standard (“Silver & Black”) | Standard (“The undercoat is clear, light and silver”) | Standard (“undercoat pure pale grey”) | Standard (“Light grey undercoat”) |
| Papillon | Standard (“All colours are admitted on a coat with a white background”) | Standard (“White & Silver”) | Standard (“white with patches of any color”) | Standard (“Silver & White”) | Standard (“White with patches: may be any colour except liver”) |
| Pekingese | Standard (“All colours and markings are permissible and of equal merit”) | Standard (“All coat colors and markings are allowable and of equal merit”) | Standard (“All colors and markings are equally permissible”) | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Standard (“All colours and markings are permissible and of equal merit”) |
| Perro de Presa Canario | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Disqualifying | No ruling | Not recognized |
| Polish Lowland Sheepdog | Standard (“all colours and patches are acceptable”) | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | No ruling | Standard (“all colours other than merle”) | Standard (“all colours and patches are acceptable”) |
| Pomeranian | Standard (“black-and-silver”) | Standard (“all colors ... are allowed”) | Standard (“any solid color”) | Not recognized (“Black and Silver”) | Not recognized |
| Poodle (Miniature) | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All solid colours”) |
| Poodle (Standard) | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All solid colours”) |
| Poodle (Toy) | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Blacks, silvers and blues”) | Standard (“Blacks, silvers and blues”) |
| Pug | Standard (“Silver, apricot, fawn or black”) | Disqualifying | Standard (“silver or apricot, fawn and black”) | Standard (“Silver, apricot, fawn or black”) | Standard (“Silver, apricot, fawn, or black”) |
| Puli | Standard (“grey in any shade”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“all shades of gray”) | Standard (“grey in various shades”) | Standard (“grey in any shade”) |
| Pumi | Standard (“grey in various shades”) | Standard (“Silver Gray”) | Standard (“varying shades of grey”) | Standard (“Grey – in various shades”) | Standard (“grey in various shades”) |
| Pyrenean Mastiff | Standard (“grey-silver”) | No ruling | Standard (“grey-silver”) | Standard (“grey silver”) | No ruling |
| Rat Terrier | No ruling | Standard (“White & Silver”) | Fault (“silver (the extreme dilution of blue)”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka | No ruling | Standard (“Silver”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Saluki | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours is permissible”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is permissible”) | Standard (“Silver Grizzle”) | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours permissible”) |
| Schapendoes | Standard (“All colours are permitted”) | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | Standard (“All colors are permitted”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Scottish Terrier | Standard (“brindle of any shade”) | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Standard (“brindle of any color”) | Standard (“brindle of any shade”) | Standard (“brindle of any shade”) |
| Shih Tzu | Standard (“All colours permissible”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors and markings are acceptable”) | Standard (“All colours permissible except merle”) | Standard (“All colours permissible”) |
| Siberian Husky | Standard (“all ranges of the allowable colours”) | Standard (“all ranges of the allowable colors”) | Standard (“all colors, from black to pure white”) | Standard (“Silver Grey & White”) | Standard (“all ranges of the allowable colours”) |
| Silky Terrier | Not recognized (“Silver and white not acceptable”) | Standard (“Silver & Tan”) | Fault (“Silver or white”) | Standard (“Silver & Tan”) | Not recognized (“Silver and white not acceptable”) |
| Skye Terrier | Not recognized | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver platinum”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Not recognized |
| Slovakian Wirehaired Pointer | Standard (“with varying lighter and darker shadings”) | Standard (“Silver Gray”) | No ruling | Standard (“grey of any shade”) | Standard (“with varying lighter and darker shadings”) |
| Teddy Roosevelt Terrier | No ruling | Standard (“Silver & White”) | Standard (“any variety of colors”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Tibetan Spaniel | Standard (“All colours and mixture of colours permissible”) | Standard (“Silver Sable”) | Standard (“All colors and combinations of colors are acceptable”) | Standard (“Silver Sable”) | Standard (“All colours and mixture of colours permissible”) |
| Tibetan Terrier | Standard (“in fact any colour ... permissible”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors, including white, are acceptable”) | Standard (“in fact any colour permissible”) | Standard (“in fact any colour ... permissible”) |
| Weimaraner | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Silver Gray”) | Standard (“silver-gray”) | Standard (“silver grey”) | Standard (“silver”) |
| Whippet | Standard (“Any colour or mixture of colours”) | Standard (“Color immaterial”) | Standard (“Color is inconsequential”) | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Standard (“Any colour or mixture of colours”) |
| Belgian Tervuren | Disqualifying | Alternate (“Silver & Black”) | No ruling | Not recognized | Disqualifying |
| Bouvier des Flandres | No ruling | Alternate (“Silver & Gray”) | No ruling | Not recognized | No ruling |
Breeds where Silver is disqualified or not accepted
| Breed | FCI | AKC | UKC | KC | KUSA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgian Shepherd | Disqualifying | Disqualifying (“Silver”) | Not recognized | Not recognized | Disqualifying |
| Carolina Dog | No ruling | No ruling | Disqualifying (“brown/silver”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Great Dane | Not recognized | Disqualifying (“Silver”) | Disqualifying | Not recognized | Not recognized |
| Labrador Retriever | Disqualifying | Disqualifying | Disqualifying | Not recognized (“Silver”) | Not recognized |
| Leonberger | Disqualifying (“Faulty colours (... silver ...)”) | Disqualifying | Disqualifying (“Off colors, such as ... silver”) | Not recognized | Disqualifying (“Faulty colours (... silver ...)”) |
| Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever | Disqualifying (“Silvery coat”) | Disqualifying (“Buff is bleached, faded, or silvery”) | Disqualifying (“Silvery coat”) | Not recognized | No ruling |
| Yorkshire Terrier | Not recognized (“not silver blue”) | Disqualifying (“not a silver-blue”) | Disqualifying | Not recognized (“not silver blue”) | Not recognized (“not silver blue”) |