Hund 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 Hund 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 | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Ej erkänd | Ej erkänd |
| Afghanhund | 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)”) |
| AkitaJapansk | Standard (“brindle”) | Standard (“Shimofuri (grey/silver)”) | No ruling | Standard (“Brindle: defined striping”) | Standard (“brindle”) |
| AkitaAmerikansk | 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 |
| Amerikansk 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”) |
| Amerikansk 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”) |
| Amerikansk hårlös terrier | No ruling | Standard (“Any color or combination of colors is allowed”) | Fel (“silver (the extreme dilution of blue) (Coated variety)”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Bichon havanais | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors are acceptable; singly or in any combination”) | Standard (“Any colour or combination of colours permissible”) | Ej erkänd |
| Borzoi (rysk vinthund) | 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”) |
| Cairnterrier | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Ej erkänd |
| 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”) |
| Dogo canario | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Diskvalificerande | No ruling | Ej erkänd |
| Dvärgschnauzer | Standard (“Black/Silver”) | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | Standard (“Black and Silver”) | Standard (“Black and silver”) | Standard (“Black and silver”) |
| Hollandsk herdehund | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Standard (“Brindle, on either brown or gray ground”) | No ruling | Standard (“silver”) |
| Irländsk varghund | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“any other color that is found in the Deerhound”) | Ej erkänd | Ej erkänd |
| 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”) |
| Kinesisk nakenhund | 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”) |
| Lhasa apso | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All colors are acceptable”) | Standard (“any colour permissible”) | Ej erkänd |
| Löwchen (liten lejonhund) | 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”) |
| Mops | Standard (“Silver, apricot, fawn or black”) | Diskvalificerande | Standard (“silver or apricot, fawn and black”) | Standard (“Silver, apricot, fawn or black”) | Standard (“Silver, apricot, fawn, or black”) |
| Norsk älghund grå | 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”) |
| Pekinges | 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”) |
| Polsk låglandshund | 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 (dvärgspets) | Standard (“black-and-silver”) | Standard (“all colors ... are allowed”) | Standard (“any solid color”) | Ej erkänd (“Black and Silver”) | Ej erkänd |
| Pudel (dvärg) | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All solid colours”) |
| Pudel (stor) | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“All solid colours”) |
| Pudel (toy) | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver”) | Standard (“Blacks, silvers and blues”) | Standard (“Blacks, silvers and blues”) |
| 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”) |
| Pyreneisk mastiff | Standard (“grey-silver”) | No ruling | Standard (“grey-silver”) | Standard (“grey silver”) | No ruling |
| Rat terrier | No ruling | Standard (“White & Silver”) | Fel (“silver (the extreme dilution of blue)”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Riesenschnauzer | Standard (“Black/Silver”) | Diskvalificerande (“Markings other than specified”) | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Black and silver”) | Standard (“Black and silver”) |
| Rysk färgad 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”) |
| Schäferhund | 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”) |
| Schapendoes | Standard (“All colours are permitted”) | Standard (“Black & Silver”) | Standard (“All colors are permitted”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| 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 | Ej erkänd (“Silver and white not acceptable”) | Standard (“Silver & Tan”) | Fel (“Silver or white”) | Standard (“Silver & Tan”) | Ej erkänd (“Silver and white not acceptable”) |
| Skotsk terrier | Standard (“brindle of any shade”) | Standard (“Silver Brindle”) | Standard (“brindle of any color”) | Standard (“brindle of any shade”) | Standard (“brindle of any shade”) |
| Skyeterrier | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Standard (“silver platinum”) | Standard (“Silver”) | Ej erkänd |
| Slovakisk strävhårig vorsteh | 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 |
| Tibetansk 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”) |
| Tibetansk 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”) |
| Tjeckisk terrier | Ej erkänd | Standard (“any fairly uniform shade of gray ranging from charcoal to platinum gray”) | Ej erkänd | Standard (“Silver”) | Ej erkänd |
| Tjeckoslovakisk varghund | Standard (“silver-gray”) | Standard (“Silver Gray”) | Standard (“silver-gray”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Tysk spets | Standard (“black-and-silver (Medium, Miniature)”) | Standard (“black and silver”) | Standard (“all colors”) | Standard (“all colour varieties ... acceptable”) | Standard (“black-and-silver”) |
| Tysk spetsStor | Diskvalificerande | Ej erkänd | Standard (“all colors”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| 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”) |
| Belgisk vallhund tervueren | Diskvalificerande | Alternativ (“Silver & Black”) | No ruling | Ej erkänd | Diskvalificerande |
| Bouvier des Flandres | No ruling | Alternativ (“Silver & Gray”) | No ruling | Ej erkänd | No ruling |
Breeds where Silver is disqualified or not accepted
| Breed | FCI | AKC | UKC | KC | KUSA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgisk vallhund | Diskvalificerande | Diskvalificerande (“Silver”) | Ej erkänd | Ej erkänd | Diskvalificerande |
| Carolinahund | No ruling | No ruling | Diskvalificerande (“brown/silver”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Grand danois | Ej erkänd | Diskvalificerande (“Silver”) | Diskvalificerande | Ej erkänd | Ej erkänd |
| Labrador retriever | Diskvalificerande | Diskvalificerande | Diskvalificerande | Ej erkänd (“Silver”) | Ej erkänd |
| Leonberger | Diskvalificerande (“Faulty colours (... silver ...)”) | Diskvalificerande | Diskvalificerande (“Off colors, such as ... silver”) | Ej erkänd | Diskvalificerande (“Faulty colours (... silver ...)”) |
| Nova scotia duck tolling retriever | Diskvalificerande (“Silvery coat”) | Diskvalificerande (“Buff is bleached, faded, or silvery”) | Diskvalificerande (“Silvery coat”) | Ej erkänd | No ruling |
| Yorkshireterrier | Ej erkänd (“not silver blue”) | Diskvalificerande (“not a silver-blue”) | Diskvalificerande | Ej erkänd (“not silver blue”) | Ej erkänd (“not silver blue”) |