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Kennel Club, London 1994 F.C.I. Standard No. 122
GENERAL
APPEARANCE Strongly built, short coupled, very active; broad in skull; broad and deep through chest and ribs; broad
and strong over loins and hindquarters.
CHARACTERISTICS Good tempered, very agile. Excellent nose,
soft mouth; keen love of water. Adaptable, devoted companion.
TEMPERAMENT Intelligent, keen and
biddable, with a strong will to please. Kindly with no trace of aggression or undue shyness.
HEAD AND SKULL
Skull broad with defined stop; clean cut without fleshy cheeks. Jaws of medium length, powerful not snipey. Nose wide, nostrils
well-developed.
EYES Medium size, expressing Intelligence and good temper, brown or hazel.
EARS Not large or heavy, hanging close to head and set rather far back.
MOUTH
Jaws and teeth strong with a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, i.e. Upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth
and set square to the jaws.
NECK Clean, strong, powerful, set into well-placed shoulders.
FOREQUARTERS Shoulders long and sloping. Forelegs well-boned and straight from elbow to ground when viewed
from either front or side.
BODY Chest of good width, and depth, with well sprung barrel ribs.
Level topline. Loins wide, short coupled and strong.
HINDQUARTERS Well-developed not sloping to
tail; well turned stifle. Hocks well let down, cowhocks highly undesirable.
FEET Round, compact;
well-arched toes and well-developed pads.
TAIL Distinctive feature. very thick towards base, gradually
tapering towards tip. medium length. free from feathering. but clothed thickly all round with short, thick, dense coat, thus
giving 'rounded' appearance described as 'Otter' tail. May be carried gaily but should not curl over back.
GAIT
AND MOVEMENT Free, covering adequate ground; straight and true in front and rear.
COAT
Distinctive feature, short dense without wave or feathering. giving fairly hard feet to the touch; weather resistant undercoat.
COLOUR Wholly black, yellow or liver/chocolate. Yellows range from light cream to red fox. Small
white spot on chest Permissible.
SIZE Height: Dogs 56 - 57 cm (22 1/2 - 24 1/2 in.) at withers;
Bitches 54.5 - 56 cm (21 1/2 - 23 1/2 in.) at withers.
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.
NOTE Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into
the scrotum.
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