United Pet Club

Câine pattern

Particolor

White with clearly defined patches of one or more colors, usually at least half white: parti-color Poodles, Cocker Spaniels and Yorkshire Terriers.

44 Câine breeds list Particolor. It is in a club standard for 31 breeds. At least one club disqualifies it in 16 breeds.

Breeds whose standards accept Particolor

BreedFCIAKCKUSAUKCKC
American Staffordshire TerrierStandard (“particolour, or patched”)Standard (“Patched”)Standard (“parti-colour, or patched”)No rulingNo ruling
AzawakhDescalificant (“invasive white”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Descalificant (“invasive white”)Standard (“parti-color”)Nerecunoscut
Bichon HavanezNo rulingStandard (“Parti-Color”)No rulingStandard (“All colors are acceptable; singly or in any combination”)Standard (“Particolour”)
Câine de Apă SpaniolStandard (“Bicoloured: White and black or white and brown in their different shades”)Standard (“parti-color where one of the colors must be white”)No rulingStandard (“Bi-color. White and any shade of black or brown”)Standard (“black and white or brown and white (particolour)”)
ChihuahuaStandard (“All colours in all possible shades and combinations are admitted”)Standard (“Any color - Solid, marked or splashed”)Standard (“Any colour or mixture of colours”)Standard (“All colors in all shades and combinations are acceptable”)Standard (“Black Particolour”)
Ciobănesc din Asia CentralăStandard (“Any”)Standard (“Any”)Standard (“Any colour”)Standard (“parti-colored”)No ruling
Cocker Spaniel AmericanStandard (“Parti-Colour variety”)Standard (“Parti-Color Variety”)Standard (“Parti-Colour Variety”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“Parti-colours”)
Cocker Spaniel AmericanPestrițStandard (“Parti-Colour variety”)Standard (“Parti-Color Variety”)Standard (“Parti-Colour Variety”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“Parti-colours”)
Cocker Spaniel EnglezStandard (“Particolours”)Standard (“Parti-colors”)Standard (“Particolours”)Standard (“PARTI-COLORS”)Standard (“Particolours”)
Epagneul BretonNo rulingStandard (“the standard parti-color or piebald patterns”)No rulingNo rulingNerecunoscut
KooikerhondjeStandard (“orange-red parti-coloured”)Standard (“orange-red parti-colored”)Standard (“orange-red parti-coloured”)Standard (“Distinct patches of clear orange-red color on a white background”)Standard (“orange-red parti-coloured”)
Lhasa ApsoStandard (“parti-colour”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“parti-colour”)Standard (“All colors are acceptable”)Standard (“parti-colour”)
LöwchenStandard (“All colours and combinations of colours are permitted”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“All colours and combinations of colours are permitted”)Standard (“All colors and color combinations are acceptable”)Standard (“Particolour”)
Mastiff SpaniolStandard (“parti-coloured”)Standard (“parti-coloured”)No rulingStandard (“parti-colored”)No ruling
OgarStandard (“any of these colours broken with white”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“any of these colours broken with white”)Standard (“Immaterial”)Standard (“any of these colours broken with white”)
OtterhoundNo rulingStandard (“Any color or combination of colors is acceptable”)No rulingStandard (“Any color or combination of colors is acceptable”)Standard (“Particolour”)
PapillonStandard (“All colours are admitted on a coat with a white background”)Standard (“Always parti-color or white with patches of any color(s)”)Standard (“White with patches: may be any colour except liver”)Standard (“The Papillon is always parti-colored”)Standard (“White with patches, which may be any colour except liver”)
PekinezStandard (“Parti-colours evenly broken”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“Parti-colours evenly broken”)Standard (“All colors and markings are equally permissible”)Standard (“Parti-colours evenly broken”)
PomeranianStandard (“coats with patches (white always as basic colour)”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“parti-coloured dogs”)Standard (“parti-color”)Standard (“parti-coloured dogs”)
Pudel (Miniatural)Standard (“Parti-coloured dogs, two colours”)Descalificant (“Parti-colored dogs shall be disqualified”)NerecunoscutNo rulingNerecunoscut (“Particolour”)
Pudel (Standard)Standard (“Parti-coloured dogs, two colours”)Descalificant (“Parti-colored dogs shall be disqualified”)NerecunoscutNo rulingNerecunoscut (“Particolour”)
Pudel (Toy)Standard (“Parti-coloured dogs, two colours”)Descalificant (“Parti-colored dogs shall be disqualified”)NerecunoscutNo rulingNerecunoscut (“Particolour”)
SalukiStandard (“Any colour or combination of colours is permissible”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours permissible”)Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is permissible”)Standard (“Black & White Particolour”)
Setter Irlandez Roșu și AlbStandard (“Base colour white with solid red patches (clear islands of red colour)”)Standard (“Red Patched”)Standard (“Base colour white with solid red patches (clear islands of red colour)”)Standard (“a large, red and white parti-colored dog”)Standard (“Clearly particoloured”)
Shih TzuStandard (“white tip to tail highly desirable in parti-colours”)Standard (“All are permissible”)Standard (“white tip to tail highly desirable in parti-colours”)Standard (“All colors and markings are acceptable”)Standard (“white tip to tail highly desirable in parti-colours”)
Spaniel TibetanStandard (“All colours and mixture of colours permissible”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“All colours and mixture of colours permissible”)Standard (“All colors and combinations of colors are acceptable”)Standard (“Particolour”)
Spitz GermanStandard (“coats with patches (Medium, Miniature)”)Standard (“Parti-Color”)Standard (“parti-colour”)Standard (“parti-colors”)Standard (“Black & White Particolour”)
Spitz GermanMareDescalificant (“any colour not mentioned in section "Colours"”)Standard (“parti-color of black, brown and sable”)No rulingStandard (“parti-colors”)No ruling
Terrier TibetanStandard (“parti-colour”)Standard (“Any color or combination of colors including white are acceptable”)Standard (“parti-colour”)Standard (“Any color or combination of colors, including white, are acceptable”)Standard (“parti-colour”)
TornjakStandard (“parti-coloured with distinct markings of various solid colours”)Standard (“parti-coloured with distinct markings of various solid colours”)No rulingStandard (“parti-colored, with distinct markings of various solid colors”)No ruling
WhippetStandard (“parti-colour”)Standard (“Color immaterial”)Standard (“particolours”)Standard (“Color is inconsequential”)Standard (“Black & White Particolour”)

Breeds where Particolor is a fault

BreedFCIAKCKUSAUKCKC
Bouvier des FlandresNo rulingDefect (“parti-color ... to be severely penalized”)No rulingDefect (“parti-color dogs”)Defect (“white predominating ... highly undesirable”)
Mastiff TibetanDescalificant (“All other colours than above mentioned e.g. ... particolours”)Descalificant (“All other coat colors (e.g., ... particolors)”)Descalificant (“All colours other than above-mentioned e.g. ... particolours”)No rulingDefect (“parti-colour ... undesirable”)
Schnauzer PiticDefect (“Patchy coat in the colours black/silver and white”)Descalificant (“Parti-Color”)NerecunoscutDescalificantNerecunoscut (“Parti Black & White”)

Breeds where Particolor is disqualified or not accepted

BreedFCIAKCKUSAUKCKC
Bolonka Țvetnaia RusescNo rulingDescalificant (“parti-color”)No rulingNo rulingNo ruling
Câine Ciobănesc KangalNo rulingNo rulingNo rulingDescalificant (“other parti-colored patterns”)Nerecunoscut
PuliDescalificantNerecunoscutDescalificantDescalificant (“parti-colors”)Nerecunoscut
PumiDescalificantDescalificant (“parti-colored”)DescalificantDescalificantNerecunoscut
Shar-PeiDescalificant (“patches”)Descalificant (“parti-colored”)Descalificant (“patches”)Descalificant (“parti-colored”)Nerecunoscut (“Black & White Flowered”)
SloughiDescalificantDescalificantDescalificantDescalificant (“Extensive white markings such as parti-color”)Nerecunoscut
VizslaDescalificant (“Parti-coloured, not uniformly coloured”)No rulingNerecunoscutNo rulingNerecunoscut
Vizsla cu Păr SârmosDescalificant (“Particoloured, not uniformly coloured”)No rulingDescalificant (“Parti-coloured, not uniformly coloured”)No rulingNerecunoscut
Yorkshire TerrierNo rulingDescalificantNerecunoscutNo rulingNerecunoscut
Chow ChowNerecunoscut (“not ... parti-coloured”)No rulingNerecunoscut (“not ... particoloured”)No rulingNerecunoscut (“not ... parti-coloured”)
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