- Senior Weight of 4 to 7 pounds.

(usually weighs 5-6).

- Three varieties: black, brown, and fawn.

- Very short, dense, snappy flyback coat.

- muscular, athletic type

- Silvering consists of white and white-tipped hairs

- Standard does not specify ideal amount of silvering

as long as silvering is even and bright.

- Curious, active temperaments

- Very old breed whose exact origin is not known, but was present in England in the late sixteenth century.

- Now bred worldwide.

- All silvered breeds decsended from the Silver.

- Senior Weight of 9 to 10 pounds

- One recognized variety: black. Blue Silver Foxes exist but are currently unrecognized.

- Long (1 1/2 inch) fur that stands upright to body when stroked from tail to head. About as opposite a coat from a Silver as you can get.

- Commercial type.

- Silvering consists of white ticking.

- Standard specifies ideal amount of silvering to strive for.

- Docile, low-key temperaments

- Developed in 1929 from a combination of several other breeds of the day. (Including the Silver.)

- Found only in America.