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Pays d’origine: le Tibet - Patronage: la Grande-Bretagne (Traduction Prof. R. TRIQUET) |
| GENERAL APPEARANCE: Well balanced, sturdy, heavy coated. CHARACTERISTICS: Gay and assertive. TEMPERAMENT: Alert, steady but somewhat aloof with strangers. HEAD & SKULL: Heavy head furnishings with good fall over the eyes, good whiskers and beard. Skull moderately narrow, falling away behind the eyes, not quite flat, but not domed or apple-headed. Straight foreface with medium stop. Nose black. Muzzle about 4 cm (11/2 ins), but not square; length from tip of nose roughly one third total length from nose to back of skull. EYES: Dark. Medium size, frontally placed, oval, neither large, nor small and sunk. No white showing at base or top. EARS: Pendant, heavily feathered. MOUTH: Upper incisors close just behind lower, i.e. reverse scissor bite. Incisors in a broad and as straight a line as possible. Full dentition desirable. NECK: Strong and well arched. FOREQUARTERS: Shoulders well laid back. Forelegs straight, heavily furnished with hair. BODY: Length from point of shoulders to point of buttocks greater than height at withers. Well ribbed. Level topline. Strong loin. Balanced and compact. HINDQUARTERS: Well developed with good muscle. Good angulation. Heavily furnished with hair. Hocks when viewed from behind parallel and not too close together. FEET: Round, cat-like with firm pads. Well feathered GAIT/MOVEMENT: Free and jaunty. TAIL: High set, carried well over back but not like a pot hook. Often a kink at end. Well feathered. COAT: Top coat long, heavy, straight, hard neither wooly nor silky. Moderate undercoat. COLOUR: Golden, sandy, honey, dark grizzle, slate, smoke, black, parti-colour, white or brown. All equally acceptable. SIZE: Ideal height: 25.4 cm (10 ins) at shoulder for dogs; bitches slightly smaller. 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 testicles fully descended into the scrotum. |
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