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(9.6.1999)
GENERAL APPEARANCE
Active, compact, short-coupled and essentially well balanced, leonine in appearance, proud, dignified bearing; well knit frame; tail carried well over back.
HEAD
CRANIAL REGION:
Skull: Flat, broad; well filled out under the eyes.
Stop: Not pronounced.
FACIAL REGION:
Nose: Large and wide in all cases black (with exception of cream and near white in which case a light-coloured nose is permissible, and in blues and fawns a self-coloured nose).
Muzzle: Moderate in length, broad from eyes to end (not pointed at end like a fox).
Flews: LFlews and roof of mouth black (blue black), gums preferably black. Tongue bluish black.
Jaws/Teeth: Teeth strong and level, jaws strong, with a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, i.e. the upper teeth closely overlapping the lower teeth and set square to the jaws.
Eyes: Dark, oval shaped, medium sized and clean. A matching coloured eye permissible in blues and fawns. Clean eye, free from entropion, never being penalised for sake of mere size.
Ears: Small, thick, slightly rounded at tip, carried stiffly and wide apart but tilting well forward over eyes and slightly towards each other, giving peculiar characteristic scowling expression of the breed. Scowl never to be achieved by loose wrinkled skin of head.
COAT
Either rough or smooth.
Rough: Profuse, abundant, dense, straight and stand-off. Outer coat rather coarse in texture, with soft woolly undercoat. Especially thick round neck forming mane or ruff and with good culottes or breechings on back of thighs.
Smooth : Coat short, abundant, dense, straight, upstanding, not flat, plush-like in texture.
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BEHAVIOUR / TEMPERAMENT
Quiet dog, good guard, bluish-black tongue; unique in its stilted gait. Independant, loyal, yet aloof.
NECK
Strong, full, not short, set well on shoulders and slightly arched.
BODY
Back: Short, level and strong.
Loins: Powerful
Chest: Broad and deep. Ribs well sprung, but not barrelled.
TAIL: Set high, carried well over back.
LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS: Forelegs perfectly straight, of moderate length, woth good bone.
Shoulders : Muscular and sloping.
HINDQUARTERS : Hindlegs muscular.
Hock joint: Well let down, with minimal angulation, essential to produce the characteristic stilted gait. Never flexing forward.
Hock : From hock joints downwards to appear straight.
FEET:
Small, round, cat-like, standing well on toes.
GAIT / MOVEMENT: Short and stilted. Forelegs and hindlegs moving parallel to each other and straight forward.
COLOUR
Whole coloured black, red, blue, fawn, cream or white, frequently shaded but not in patches or parti-coloured (underpart of tail and back of thighs frequently of a lighter colour).
SIZE
Height at withers
Dogs: 48 – 56 cm at shoulder.
Bitches: 46 – 51 cm at shoulder.
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