11/08/2026
Heureusement qu'il y a encore des connaisseurs de la race pour réagir à ce type de conneries.
I’m seeing this bad AI “infographic” with incorrect information being shared around social media and wanted to post the ACTUAL breed standard for nose colors!
Summarized it is that black-based poodles (black, blue, and silver) must have black noses. Brown-based poodles (brown, cafe au lait, and silver beige) must have brown noses. Red-based poodles (white, cream, apricot, and red) may have either black or brown noses but black is the preferred color and brown, while permitted, is undesirable.
🇨🇦 CKC Breed Standard
“Brown and café au lait Poodles may have brown coloured noses, eye rims and lips, dark toenails and dark amber eyes. Black, blue, grey, silver, cream, and white Poodles have black noses, eye rims and lips, and black or self coloured toenails, and very dark eyes. In the apricots, while the foregoing colour is preferred, brown noses, eye rims and lips and dark amber eyes are permitted, but not desirable.”
🇺🇸 AKC Breed Standard
“Brown and cafe-au-lait Poodles have liver-colored noses, eye-rims and lips, dark toenails and dark amber eyes. Black, blue, gray, silver, cream and white Poodles have black noses, eye-rims and lips, black or self colored toenails and very dark eyes. In the apricots while the foregoing coloring is preferred, liver-colored noses, eye-rims and lips, and amber eyes are permitted but are not desirable. Major fault: color of nose, lips and eye-rims incomplete, or of wrong color for color of dog.”
🏆 UKC Breed Standard
“Nose leather is liver for dogs with brown, caf-au-lait, or silver beige coat color. Dogs with coats of all other colors must have black pigment, except that dogs with apricot or red coats may have liver nose pigment but it is not preferred. Serious Faults: Incomplete nose pigment or of wrong color for color of coat.”
🇪🇺 FCI Breed Standard
“Black nose in black,white and grey subjects; in two-coloured black, two-coloured grey, black and fawn and in tricoloured subjects; brown nose in brown subjects, in two-coloured brown and brown and fawn. In fawn (apricot/red) and in two-coloured fawn subjects, the nose should be black or brown according to the intensity of the fawn colour. In light fawn subjects the nose should be as dark as possible.”