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GENERAL APPEARANCE |
Medium-sized dog with secondary
sex characteristics strongly marked, well balanced, sturdily
built and well boned. Muscles tough and clean cut. |
BEHAVIOUR
/ TEMPERAMENT |
Dog
of noteworthy endurance, showing dignity and naive feeling.
The temperament is faithful, docile, very alert and bold. |
IMPORTANT
PROPORTIONS |
-
The ratio of height at withers to length
of body is 10 : 11
- The ratio of skull to length of nasal bridge is 3 : 2.
- Length of skull equal to width of cheeks, being about one
fourth of height at withers.
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HEAD |
CRANIAL REGION :
Skull and forehead : Broad and slightly
flat.
Stop : Shallow, but defined.
FACIAL REGION :
Nose : Black, flesh colour permitted
with a white coat.
Muzzle : Wedge-shaped. Nasal bridge straight.
Lips : Tight, with black edges.
Jaws/Teeth : Strong, with a scissor bite.
Cheeks : Well developed.
Eyes : Relatively small, nearly triangular,
set well apart and dark brown in colour.
Ears : Small, triangular, slightly inclining
forward and firmly pricked.
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| NECK |
Powerful
and muscular, free from dewlap.
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| BODY |
Withers : High.
Back : Straight and strong.
Loins : Moderately broad and muscular.
Croup : Properly sloping.
Chest : Forechest well developed. Chest
deep and moderately broad; ribs well sprung.
Belly : Well tucked up.
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TAIL |
Set
on high, thick and carried over the back vigorously curled
or curved like a sickle, the tip nearly reaching hocks when
let down. |
| LIMBS |
FOREQUARTERS
:
Shoulders : Moderately sloping.
Forearm : Straight, clean cut.
Pasterns : Slightly inclining.
HINDQUARTERS : Powerful.
Hocks : Tough, sufficiently strong.
FEET : Toes well arched and tightly closed;
pads hard and elastic; nails hard and black or dark colour.
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GAIT/MOVEMENT
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Active,
quick, light and resilient. |
| COAT |
HAIR : Outer coat harsh
and straight; undercoat soft and dense. The hair on the
tail fairly long and off-standing.
COLOUR : Sesame (red fawn
hairs with black tips), brindle, red, black, black and
tan, white.
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| SIZE
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Height
at withers : Dogs 48,5 - 51,5 cm.
Bitches 45,5 - 48, 5 cm |
| FAULTS |
Any
departure from the foregoing points should be considered
a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should
be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree.
- Bitchy dog/doggy bitches.
- Slightly overshot or undershot mouth.
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ELIMINATING
FAULTS |
-
Extremely overshot or undershot mouth.
- Ears not pricked.
- Hanging or short tail.
- Shyness. |
| N.B. |
Male animals should have two apparently
normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.
Blue-Black colour in tongue is not a fault.
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