im going to buy a toy poodle the only problem is it has a black body and a chocolae face is this a problem?im going to pay 300 pound for the dog is it worth this amount with two coulers of fur? please email me an answer on jr002b2257.co.uk

is it a puppy or an adult?

Please please please please please e-mail me about this dog. I too have a 'two tone' poodle and would just love to know more about this little man and his pedigree. bec@jerakeen.fsnet.co.uk
On the money note I work on the basis that if you really want the dog then you will pay what it costs. Puppies cost the same to rear regardless if they are the wrong colour or not. My little girl is a mini poodle she is brown and cream, came all the way from Northern Ireland and cost me £500! But boy is she worth it she is wonderful.

My little man has a small patch of white/silver fur under his chin:D The rest of him is black.......

Lucky! I would love a parti coloured poodle.

I'm trying to contact some German breeders of parti poodles and the black and tans to see if I can get them to send some to me!

I live in the US and raise two colored parti poodles in toy and standard size. If anyone would like to see pictures I would e-mail them. I have wht/brn, wht/blue and wht/blk parti colors Cheryl

This puppy is a parti colour. It cannot be Kennel Club registered. It is according to the breed standard a major fault. The coat of a poodle should be one solid colour. This does not matter if you only want an unregistered pet but as these types of coats are becoming popular I presume this is why you have been asked for so much money.

Hi,

Just curiosity - surely even as a non-standard colour, this puppy CAN be KC registered - don't know if you have defined colours allowed for registrations, but even in breeds where this is the case there is normally an allowance for mismarks? - i.e. in Danes, all Merle and Boston puppies are registered as 'harlequin mismarks'.

Also, £300 doesn't sound extortionate for any pedigree puppy to me - is this expensive for a Poodle?

M.

As far as I am aware the KC does not recognise parti-colour poodles. You cannot show them. The AKC also does not recognise them. As far as I am aware Germany does. I presume you could register them by putting one colour down as the KC would know no better and they are always keen on taking your money. Perhaps the amount of money being asked is not too bad as these are becoming popular now. I don't have toys but if I had a standard parti-colour in a litter it would be sold unregistered for a maybe 150 to 200. These are very dofferent to mismarks. Mismarks have a small patch of a different colour on their chests or feet.

But surely any unapproved colour is just a mismark? In my opinion, KC should register all puppies, as if some are not registered it skews the figures on what is being bred and reared. In some breeds, such as Danes, you are only allowed to register puppies in the recognised colours - fawn, brindle, blue, black and harlequin - anything that falls outside this is registered as a harlequin mismark.

Re. showing, again I would dispute that anyone can stop you showing a particolour - it is a fault like any other, and with the political situation I guess you would be out of the ring fairly shortly after you went in - but that's down to personal choice?

Examples of this would be white GSDs, and people have certainly gone into normal showrings with these (and even won occasionally at lower levels, I believe) - and wasn't it the same situation with brindle Basenjis a few years ago?

M.

AKC does recognize the multicolored poodles even when we register them as wht with brn markings etc... It is the PCA Poodle Club of America that does not accept the parti or any multicolor dog in conformation. You can show colored poodles in Obedience or agility.

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I suppose you could try to take a parti colour in the ring but when the breed standard says solid colours only and lists them I think as you say you would be out faster than you came in. It is I suppose only one fault but it is a bit obvious. What worries me is people breeding parti-colours to make extra money (some people are already charging more for the rarer colours) with out going into it properly i.e. health tests etc. I do rescue and I know there are plenty of unwanted standards already without people buying just because it looks different and cute only to find they have a large active dog they cannot handle.

As this post is from last May I would have thought the poster would have made their mind up by now :)