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THIS PAGE IS FULL OF PICTURES DEMONSTRATING THE DIFFERENT COLORS FOUND IN POODLES.
Some of these are NOT my dogs and were copied to this web site with special permission!
Abstract: Defined as less than fifty percent white, with the remaining percent
any other acceptable solid color. They may have various markings from the tuxedo (white paws, chest, and legs) to small
white chests, some blazing may occur or other various markings. This marking used to be called a mismark. Since
then we have started calling them abstracts, which is a much nicer term. Abstract poodles are coming out with some
very usual markings. It makes for some really showy dogs. These markings are allowed in the UKC conformation
ring! These markings are registerable with the AKC also. You will usually find them registered as a color with
white markings, ie black with white markings. Abstracts may occur in any color in the poodle.
Examples of abstract colors:
Black with white markings abstract female poodle.
Red with white markings abstract male poodle.
My red and white abstract female "Fanci".
Parti-colored as defined by the UKC: At least fifty percent white, with spots or patches of any
other acceptable solid color. The head can be of a solid color but white muzzle, blaze, or white muzzle/blaze combination
(preferably symmetrical) are equally acceptable. Full or partial saddles are acceptable, as long as they do not exceed the
color proportion, but are not preferred. Ticking in the white of the coat is acceptable but not preferred.
Please note that no two partis are colored exactly alike. Each parti is unique.
Examples of parti colored poodles:
Our black and white parti minaiture female "Oreo"
Black and white male parti.
Blue and white female parti.
Cafe Au Lait and white parti male.
Thanks to Betty at Expressly Poodles for allowing us to show of her Cafe and white male Chipper!
Apricot and white parti male.
You can also have brindle and white partis.
Here is a brindle and white parti male that I produced.
UKC defines Phantoms as: Solid base color with sharply defined markings of a second color appearing
above each eye, on the sides of the muzzle, on the throat and forechest, or in a chin and forechest bowtie pattern as well
as on all four legs and feet, and below the tail. A phantom without clearly defined face markings or one that presents with
its whole face colored in the second color is acceptable, as long as it maintains all the other specified body markings. Any
combination of acceptable colors is allowed.
Examples of the phantom color in poodles:
A Black and red male phantom.
Our Black and Brindle female phantom "Checkerz".
Please note that her phantom colors are hard to see because of the brindling in her markings.
A Blue and white female phantom.
A Cafe Au Lait and Cream female phantom.
You can also have sables in the phantoms.
Here is a cream and silver sable phantom male that I produced.
UKC defines Brindle as: A coat that exhibits a tiger-striped pattern resulting from layered black
hair intermingled in areas of lighter color: ie: lighter color with black stripes. Reverse brindle occurs when the black
striping is so heavily concentrated that the lighter background, while clearly still present, is much more subdued, giving
the appearance of the coat being black in color with lighter stripes.
A Red and black brindle male puppy at 7 weeks.
UKC defines Sable as: A coat represented by black-tipped hairs on a background of any solid color,
with no particular pattern/location designated for such hairs.
Example of sable color in poodles:
Cream sable male puppy.
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