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STANDARD
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GENERAL
APPEARANCE.
Large, powerful, symmetrical and well knit frame. A combination
of grandeur and good nature, courage and docility. The head is
general outline giving square appearance when viewed from any
point. Breadth greatly to be desired, and should be in ratio to
length of the whole head and face as 2 to 3. Body massive,
broad, deep, long, powerfully built on legs wide apart and
squarely set. Muscles sharply defined. Size a great desideratum
if combined with quality. Height and substance important if both
points are proportionately combined.
HEAD and SKULL
Skull broad between the ears, forehead flat, but wrinkled when
attention is excited, Brows (superciliary ridges) slightly
raised. Muscles of the temples and checks (tempels and
masseter), well developed. Arch across the skull of a rounded,
flattened curve, with a depression up the centre of the forehead
from the median line between the eyes, to halfway up the
sagittal suture. Face or muzzle short, broad under the eyes, and
keeping nearly parallel in width to the end of the nose;
truncated, i.c. blunt and cut off squarely, thus forming a right
angle with the upper line of the face, of great depth from the
point of the nose to the underjaw. Under jaw broad to the end.
Nose broad, with widely spreading nostrils when viewed from the
front, flat (not pointed or turned up) in profile. Lips
diverging at obtuse angles with the septum, and slightly
pendulous so as to show a square profile. Length of muzzle to
whole head and face as 1to 3. Circumference of muzzle (measured
midway between the eyes and nose) to that of the head (measured
before the ears) as 3 to 5.
EYES
Small, wide apart, divided by the space of at least two eyes.
'The stop between the eyes well marked, but not too abrupt.
Colour hazel brown, the darker the better, showing no haw.
EARS
Small, thin to the touch, wide apart, set on at the highest
points of the sides of the skull, so as to continue the outline
across the summit, and lying flat and close to the cheeks when
in repose.
MOUTH
Canine teeth healthy, powerful and wide apart, incisors level,
or the lower projecting beyond the upper but never so much as to
become visible when the mouth is closed.
NECK
Slightly arched, moderately long, very muscular and measuring in
circumference about one or two inches less than the skull before
the ears.
FOREQUARTERS
Shoulder and arm slightly sloping, heavy and muscular. Legs
straight, strong and set wide apart, bones being large. Elbows
square. Pasterns upright.
BODY
Chest wide, deep and well let down between forelegs. Ribs arched
and well rounded. False ribs deep, and well set back to the
hips. Girth should be one third more than the height at the
shoulder. Back and loins wide and muscular; flat and very wide
in a bitch, slightly arched in a dog. Great depth of flanks.
HINDQUARTERS
Broad, wide and muscular, with well developed second thighs,
hocks bent, wide apart and quite squarely set when standing, or
walking.
FEET
Large and round. Toes well arched up, Nails black.
TAIL
Put on high up, and reaching to the hocks or a litt1e below
them. Wide at its root and tapering to the end, hanging straight
in repose, but forming a curve with the end pointing upwards but
not over the back, when the dog is excited.
COAT
Short and close lying, but not too fine over the shoulders, neck
and back.
COLOUR
Apricot, silver fawn, or dark fawn brindle, In any case, muzzle,
ears and nose, should be black with black round the orbits, and
extending upwards between them.
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