GENERAL
APPEARANCE:
Smooth coated, well balanced, of great strength
for his size. Muscular, active and agile.
CHARACTERISTICS:
Traditionally of
indomitable courage and tenacity. Highly intelligent
and affectionate especially with children.
TEMPERAMENT:
Bold, fearless and totally reliable.
HEAD
& SKULL:
Short, deep through
with broad skull. Very pronounced cheek muscles,
distinct stop, short foreface, nose black.
EYES:
Dark preferred but
may bear some relation to coat colour. Round
of medium size and set to look straight ahead.
Eye rims dark.
EARS:
Rose or half pricked, not
large or heavy. Full, drop or pricked ears highly
undesirable.
MOUTH:
Lips tight and clean. Jaws
strong, teeth large, with a perfect, regular
and complete scissor bite, i.e. upper teeth
closely overlapping the lower teeth and set
square to the jaws.
NECK:
Muscular, rather short,
clean in outline gradually widening towards
shoulders.
FOREQUARTERS:
Legs straight and well boned,
set rather wide apart, showing no weakness at
the pasterns, from which point feet turn out
a little. Shoulders well laid back with no looseness
at elbow.
BODY:
Close coupled, with
level topline, wide front, deep brisket, well
sprung ribs; muscular and well defined.
HINDQUARTERS:
Well muscled, hocks well
let down with stifles well bent. Legs parallel
when viewed from behind.
FEET:
Well padded, strong and
of medium size. Nails black in solid coloured
dogs.
TAIL:
Medium length, low
set, tapering to a point and carried rather
low. Should not curl much and may be likened
to an old fashioned pump handle.
GAIT/MOVEMENT:
Free, powerful and agile with economy of effort.
Legs moving parallel when viewed from front
or rear. Discernible drive from hindlegs.
COAT:
Smooth, short and close.
COLOUR:
Red, fawn, white, black or blue, or any one
of these colours with white. Any shade of brindle
or any shade of brindle with white. Black and
tan or liver colour highly undesirable.
SIZE:
Weight - Dogs 28 lbs to 38 lbs. Bitches 24 lbs
to 34 lbs. Desirable height (at withers) 14
to 16 inches, these heights being related to
the weights.
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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