Are pure breed chihuahua's one color?

Time to set the facts straight with regard to the Animal Welfare Act & the breed standards. First, Rayven is wholly incorrect that it was the "animal welfare nuts" that brought about a change in the legislation in England which made the practise of docking illegal {save for the narrowly construed working dogs exemption}. The change in the law stemmed from the EU after they reached a consensus & in common with the majority of the Western Eurpeon countries, was incorporated into domestic legislation.

Next, the revision of the breed standards. This was not the work of the moment & nor as it appears to be commonly held to be, a reaction to "Pedigree Dogs Exposed" program. The Kennel Club in *conjuction" with the breed clubs had been working for some time to revise those breed standards & amended {by that I mean did more than clarify the language where there may have been ambiguity}, to aid interpretattion by judges/breeders}, only a *minority* of the breed standards.

The breed standard itself in no more than a blueprint which describes the recognised appearance, temperament & charactersistics of a breed, & implicit in that is that a dog should have the ability to do the type of work it was orignally created to do & have the health to do it. What I would like is for a judge to have the b*lls to excuse dogs which did not fit the standard, for the judges not to be appointed by breed clubs to judge championship shows & for working dogs to prove that they had the work drive/dominant characterists/soundness in mind by an independent {again of the breed club} expert, before the dog was allowed to pass its genes to future litters.

Maybe I didn't read into it all the way, but it seems like not entirely a bad thing. The intro paragraph that they say they are adding really just seems to state several times that the breed standards are there to create the ideal dog, but that the health and well-being of the dog should be put first. Nothing wrong there, IMO.

As for breed standards, I really just skimmed the Aussie standard, as it is the one I am most familiar with (as far as AKC anyway). It appears in the KC standard, they've added a lot of info, particularly to the "Color" section...info that I believe has been in AKC standard for awhile now anyway. The rest didn't seem so different from original or from AKC.

>>I'm actually surprised that a lot of the stuff from the "color" section wasn't there anyway..particularly the stuff about white not dominating the head and covering/surrounding the eyes and ears.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.