Standing sporting-dogs,spaniels and retrievers.
Breedgroup:
Nature:
Very intelligent, nice and affectionate.
Average lifetime:
Maintaince fleece:
± 12-14 years.
Regularly combing and brushing.
Weight:
15-25 kg.
Talent:
Sportingdog: Pushes the wild animails and retrievers.
Association with
children:
Excellent.
Association with
other dogs:
Good.
Motionneed:
Every day minimum 1 hour letting the dog run and play.
Eyes:
Hazel or dark,medium size,neither prominent,or sunken,or showing haw.
Neck:
Long,muscular,clean in throat,neatly set into sloping shoulders.
Ears:
Set moderately low and hanging close to cheeks.
Comparatively small and gradually narrowing towards tip and shaped somwhat like a vine leaf.
Body:
Not long,strong and muscular.Length of body should be propotionate to length of legs.Loin muscular and slightly arched.Well coupled.
Forequarters:
Forelegs of medium length,straight,well boned.
Hindquarters:
Strong and muscular,wide and fully developend.
Hindlegs well boned,hocks well let down,stifles moderately angled,neither turning in nor out.
Feet:
Round,with thick pads.Firm and cat-like,not large or spreading.
Coat:
Straight or flat,silky texture,dense,never wiry or wavy.
Curly coat highly undesirable.
Forelegs and hindlegs above hocks moderately feathered,ears and tail lightly feathered.
Colour:
Rich red and white only.
Size:
Height: dogs 48 cm (19 ins) at withers; bitches 46 cm (18 ins) at withers.
This page was last updated 21-07-2008
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