Often, future owners choose a Corgi puppy based on its color. At this stage, difficulty arises, since this breed has a multifaceted palette of coat colors and one cannot do without a hint.
There are two varieties of this breed: Pembroke and Cardigan, and this also complicates the task of choosing. Who do you like best? The small Pembroke Corgi, which looks like a fox and is always smiling, or the Cardigan Corgi, which has a serious expression on its face and a large body structure.
An article from which you can learn and analyze the possible nuances of standard Corgi colors will help you with your choice and get rid of future disappointments.
Standard Pembroke and Cardigan
According to the generally accepted world standard, the color of the Pembroke Welsh Corgi can have many basic shades of red, brick red, red wheaten, as well as elegant sable and fawn colors or classic black with white markings.
According to the standard, the Cardigan Corgi has more colors than its small brother Pembroke. The cardigan can have any color allowed for the Pembroke, as well as rare coat colors: brindle, harlequin and blue merle.
The most popular coat colors for the Corgi breed are red and white and tri-color, where white should never be the main color.
The red-white coat color ranges from pale red to bright red. The coat has reddish shades with snow-white spots.
Corgis with a tri-color color are black, red and white. The black shade is located throughout the body with reddish markings and white.
Incredibly, the color of a dog's fur affects its character in the future.
Despite the huge variation in colors, Beagles are allowed to have a certain number of colors. These include black, white, red, brown and all their shades. The arrangement of tones is not regulated by canine associations. Read here: Beagle colors.
The Pembroke Corgi cannot be brindle, blue merle or merle.
Small puppies can be two-colored, but with age their colors can change to tricolor, but for this both parents must be tricolored.
Content
- What is color and suit in dogs
- Welsh Corgi breed colors
- How to choose a healthy puppy
When a person chooses a pet, he gives preference not only to a certain breed, but also focuses his attention on the color; it comes in different shades and colors, striking with its beautiful patterns and appearance. Genetics is one of the main points in a dog’s appearance; the color, type of coat and proportions depend on it. Check out the colors of the Welsh Corgi breed.
Tricolor
Tricolor - this means that the dog’s coat has 3 colors, where one is the main color, and the other 2 colors will play the role of secondary ones. The tricolor color is divided into:
Blackhead
These dogs are almost black in color.
Black color is very insidious. It can simultaneously emphasize both the beauty of the dog’s exterior and reveal the dog’s external flaws.
And thanks to black, the dog looks slimmer, more elegant and appears smaller in size.
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Deep coloring
In this case, the coat has a bright reddish tint, deep black on the body and white on the chest, neck and muzzle area. Moreover, all three colors have uniform application.
A dog with a deep tricolor coat color looks amazing. In this case, the head is reddish, and dark spots are possible near the ears.
Redhead
With this coloring, the dog is almost all red. There is little black color (in this case) and only on the back. A common occurrence with a red-headed tricolor is pale yellow fur on the tummy, as well as in the chest area and on the “pants.”
Ginger
The red color of the coat is the most recognizable color for the Corgi breed. In this case, the red color can be the most diverse, ranging from pale red to bright red, and in addition a black “mask” on the muzzle is allowed. It is the black “mask” that makes the dog expressive and gives it seriousness.
Your puppy will have a black “mask” only if his parent has the same “mask”. The snow-white color in the red Corgi is usually present in the limbs, groin and face.
Sable
The true sable color of the coat looks amazing and gives the impression that the dog is glowing. Unfortunately, true sable color is a rare occurrence. The essence of sable wool is that at the base the hair has one color, and its tips are always a different color.
Usually the base of the guard hair is light or even red, red, sandy, and the tip of the hair is a more saturated dark, almost black color.
The sable color can appear in a Corgi puppy after 3 months and it starts from the head or in the chest area.
Deer
Deer color is one of the most ancient. Deer includes all shades of sand and golden tones, from the lightest to the deepest colors. However, in this case there should not be a manifestation of a palette of red tones.
A distinctive feature for deer colors will be the transition from dark to light tones on the hips, under the tail, on the limbs and on the belly of the dog.
You cannot call a deer's fur color fawn, sand or red, since these colors are a completely different phenomenon.
Cheprachny
Black-colored wool is conventionally classified as tricolor. These puppies are born almost gray rather than red, and then the gray tone goes away. The Corgi's similar color makes them look like real shepherds. The only difference is that the Corgi will have white markings on the chest area and on the front and back legs.
The saddle coat is a combination of the color palette of the main red and dark grayish or black “saddle blanket”, which covers the dog’s back like a blanket. In this variant, black hairs (starting from the base of the head) extend to the bridge of the nose, forehead, ears, shoulders and tail.
Appearance of puppies
Welsh Corgi puppies are adorable, soft little bundles of love that you can't resist.
The puppy's tail is straight and long without kinks, the eye color is brown, in cardigans it can be blue . Puppies look like plush toys thanks to their medium-length coat.
Two-color
A two-color black and white coat palette is not uncommon for Corgis.
Black and white
In this version, the dog will be black in body with pure white markings in the muzzle, collar area, chest, at the withers, limbs and tip of the tail. Moreover, there should be no white hairs on a black background, and the presence of black hairs on a white background is not allowed.
brindle
The name brindle speaks for itself. This color has a transverse striped pattern. Transverse dark stripes are located on wool with a yellow, brown, fawn, or earthen background.
The most beautiful and correct brindle is represented by a light brown and golden main background of the coat, decorated with intense dark stripes (half rings), which disappear in the groin area and connect on the back.
In this case, there is often a black mask on the Corgi's face, and the presence of pure white spots does not serve as a flaw.
Brindle color is allowed for the Cardigan Welsh Corgi, but the Pembroke Corgi does not have it.
Marble or Blue Merle
Marble coloring or blue merle is a miracle of nature and a real fantasy. In this variant, the main coat of the Corgi is white-gray, white, gray with blue tones. The secondary tone of the spotting should be much darker.
Small marks resembling small dots, blots or stripes are scattered in a chaotic manner throughout the dog’s body. Interestingly, the Blue Merle palette also allows for white spots on the body. The peculiarity of these colors is that the main part of the guard hair is light, and the tip is dark.
Funny video
Watch a funny video in which you will see a wonderful representative of the Blue Merle Cardigan Welsh Corgi.
Types of pets by parameters
Based on the presence of various parameters, there are several types of Welsh Corgis. Let's look at the main ones.
No tail
There are Prembroke Welsh Corgis with a very short tail or almost no tail.
There are two reasons for this:
- the dog had his tail docked;
- congenital absence of a tail (bob tail).
Congenital absence of a tail is caused by the presence of the bobtail gene in the dog's parents.
With a tail
The Cardigan Welsh Corgi always has a long tail, they have never had their tails docked, nor have they been bred to bobtails.
Since in many countries societies for the protection of wildlife have achieved a ban on tail docking, you can also find prembrokes with tails of different lengths depending on the genes of their parents.
Longhair
Cardigan and Prembroke Welsh Corgi puppies may be born “shaggy”, i.e. with long and fluffy hair influenced by the shaggy gene, which is called fluffy.
This is where the subspecies of corgi came from - fluffy . Experts classify such individuals as defective, and they do not take part in exhibitions. However, this fact does not prevent many owners of such pets from loving and admiring their animals.
According to owners, long-haired corgis have a very good character and excellent health..
Shorthair
Prembrokes have a medium-length coat, thick and silky; short-haired individuals are more common among Cardigan Welsh Corgis, which have a dense two-layer coat and a dense short undercoat.
As a rule, short-haired dogs of this breed do not require special care for their coat; it is enough to brush it 1-2 times a week; you should not bathe your pet often.
With blue eyes
This unusual and attractive eye color is found among cardigans. The shade can vary from blue tones to light blue.
Most often, blue eye color is characteristic of individuals of blue merle or merle colors..
The species is considered endangered in its homeland due to the greater distribution of its fellow species, the Prembroke.
Compare with colors of other dog breeds
- Beagle
- Basenji
- Miniature Schnauzer
- Sheltie
Despite the huge variation in colors, Beagles are allowed to have a certain number of colors.
These include black, white, red, brown and all their shades. The arrangement of tones is not regulated by canine associations. Read here: Beagle colors. The Basenji is an ancient indigenous dog breed. Its development took place without human participation, for this reason their colors are very diverse. White shades in certain areas of the Basenji's body are mandatory. Read the article: Basenji colors.
In the standard, only absolutely black (the undercoat must also be this color), pepper and salt, black and silver and white with a snow-white undercoat are acceptable. More details here: Miniature Schnauzer colors.
This breed has four main colors, but their shades are varied and rich. In all varieties (and for black it is mandatory) white spots are allowed on the forehead, collar area, chest, tips of the paws, and tail. Read the article: Sheltie colors.
What do boys and girls look like and how do they differ?
It is not difficult to distinguish a corgi girl from a boy; females look smaller than males..
Girls of the Prembroke species weigh 9-11 kg, and Cardigan - 11-15 kg, while boys of both species weigh 2 kg more.
They are also distinguished by character traits: girls are calmer and more obedient than boys, and they are also more affectionate . Males, on the other hand, are distinguished by their mobility and activity.
