American Breed Standard
Character: Gay and assertive, but chary of strangers. Size: Variable, but about 10 inches or 11 inches at shoulder dogs, bitches slightly smaller. Colour: All colours equally acceptable with or without dark tips to ears and beard. Body Shape: The length from point of shoulders to point of buttocks longer than height at withers, well ribbed up, strong loin, well-developed quarters and thighs. Coat: Heavy, straight, hard, not woolly nor silky. Or good length, and very dense. Mouth and Muzzle: The preferred bite is either level or slightly undershot. Muzzle of medium length: a square muzzle is objectionable. Head: Heavy head furniushings with good fall over eyes, good whiskers and beard: skull narrow, falling away behind the eyes in a marked degree, not quite flat, but not domed or apple-shaped: straight foreface of fair length. Nose black, the length from tip or nose to eye to be roughly about one-third of the total length from nose to back of skull. Eyes: Dark brown, neither very large and full, nor very small and sunk. Ears: Pendant, heavily feathered. Legs: Forelegs straight: both forelegs and hind legs heavily furnished with hair. Feet: Well feathered, should be round and catlike, with good pads. Tail and Carriage: Well feathered, should be carried well over back in a screw: there be a kink at the end. A low carriage of stern is a serious fault. |
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