The poodle breed standard in every country that I have ever checked all state that poodles must be a solid color.
The poodle breed standard in every country that I have ever checked all state that poodles must be a solid color.
I found an English club (not Kruft's) that had Parti Poodles on their mains register and had set a standard for showing..but I don't remember its name and there are couple of other clubs that have accepted Parti's on mains for show in Europe, I am searching for them now..The poodle breed standard in every country that I have ever checked all state that poodles must be a solid color.
It reminds me of what happened with Paint and Quarter Horses. Back in the day you couldn't register a Quarter Horse if it had white on the neck or body. (White feet and facial marks were ok.) People who liked spotted Quarter Horses got together and started their own registry to welcome all the piebald cowponies. A few decades later the QH people decided spotted cowponies were ok after all and relaxed the registry rules. So now we have two registries for pretty much the same cowpony.The last I heard the campaign to get partis recognised in the FCI showring had hit a roadblock because the french club (who own the standard) refuses to allow it. Now they are changing tactic by trying to get it recog
It reminds me of what happened with Paint and Quarter Horses. Back in the day you couldn't register a Quarter Horse if it had white on the neck or body. (White feet and facial marks were ok.) People who liked spotted Quarter Horses got together and started their own registry to welcome all the piebald cowponies. A few decades later the QH people decided spotted cowponies were ok after all and relaxed the registry rules. So now we have two registries for pretty much the same cowpony.
The best parti breeders continue to include solids in their programs, selecting for diversity and the best traits. That's where we see 'parti factored' dogs, that is, solids that carry the parti gene.I think it is a problem, because every time you split off a group you separate that gene pool and it becomes smaller and less diverse. That shows up in multiple health problems in our dogs.