Forehead: Very slightly rounded.
Penalisation: Too flat, too rounded, too broad, sloping
on the eyes.
Top of muzzle: Nasal bridge flat.
Penalisation: Too long, weak, too short. Nasal bridge
convex (Roman nose).
Muzzle: Neither narrow nor pointed.
Penalisation: Pointed, narrow or too thick, pendulous
flews.
Nose: More square than round, always black,
strong and open.
Penalisation: Small nose, pinched, pointed, other than
black or with traces of pink.
Disqualification: Brown or lighter coloured nose, pink.
Teeth: Strong, white and perfectly adapted.
Penalisation:
Disqualification: Pronounced prognathism with loss of contact.
Absence of 2 premolars 4 (PM4) on the lower jaw or absence of
altogether 3 teeth whatever they are.
Eyes: Horizontal, well opened, quite large,
not slanting, of dark colour, intelligent and calm expression.
A grey eye in a grey dog is not to be penalized.
Penalisation: Eye too small, almond shaped or of a light
colour.
Disqualification: Eyes dissimilar, haggard, too light
in colour.
Ears: Set high, preferably cropped and
carried erect; not flat against the head and rather short if
uncropped. At equal quality, preference shall be given to the
dog whose erect carried ears have been cropped. The length of
the uncropped ear must be equal or slightly less than half the
length of the head, always flat and covered with long hair.
Penalisation: Covered with too short hair, too long,
carried badly.
Disqualification: Twisted ears, set too low below the
eye-line, covered with short hair, naturally erect, graft of
cartilage.
Neck: Muscular and disengaged from the
shoulders.
Penalisation: Reach of neck too long, frail or too short.
Back: Straight.
Penalisation: Slightly hollow, slight roach back.
Rump: Very slightly inclined, of a slightly
rounded shape.
Penalisation:
Quarters: Well muscled, with strong bone
and vertical limbs.
Penalisation:
Disqualification: Forelegs seriously not perpendicular.
Hocks: Not too near the ground and angled
with the leg nearing the vertical below the hock.
Penalisation: Too far from or too near the ground, bad
angulation.
Disqualification: Hindlegs seriously not perpendicular.
Tail: Entire, well furnished, forming
a hook at the tip, carried low, not deviated, reaching the point
of the hock or beyond it at most 5 cm.
Penalisation:
Disqualification:
Feet: Strong, round shaped (intermediate
between cat feet and hare feet).
Penalisation:
Disqualification: Feet seriously not perpendicular.
Nails: Black.
Penalisation: Grey nails.
Disqualification: White nails.
Pads: Hard.
Penalisation: Without elasticity, too flat, too soft.
Toes: Tightly closed.
Penalisation: Open toes, too long or held flat.
Coat:
Texture: Flexible, long, dry (type of goat hair), with a light
undercoat.
Penalisation:
Disqualification: Coat (hair) shorter than 7 cm. Coat soft
or woolly.
Colour: All uniform colours are admitted
apart from those mentioned below. The dark shades are to be
recommended. Not to be confused the bicolour with a slightly
lighter shade on the extrimeties which is nothing more than
a beginning of depigmentation. This shade, slightly lighter,
must remain in the same range of the fawn colours (dark fawn
or light fawn, dark black or lightened black, dark grey on lighter
grey, etc). The fawn must be warm and uniform, neither light
or washed out.
Penalisation:
Disqualification: White shade, brown (chestnut), mahogany,
bi-colour, white blaze, white hairs on tip of feet. Fawn coat
with black overlay forming a mantle. Colour too light.
Note: For the bi-colour, look at the colour
of the skin which will be bluish under the dark parts and pinkish
under the light parts.
Dewclaws: Double dewclaws on the back
legs (see explanatory sketch plate A). The dogs, even of very
goog type, who only have one dewclaw, will not be given an award.
Acceptance for breeding will be refused.
The double dewclaws must be made up of two bony
parts with nails, placed as near the ground as possible, assuring
a better setting of the foot.
Penalisation:
Disqualification:
Acceptance for breeding: ALL MOTIVES OF DISQUALIFICATION,
ALL QUALIFYING LESS THAN GOOD, WILL MEAN NO ACCEPTANCE OF THE
SUBJECTS FOR BREEDING.
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.
N.B. Male animals should have two apparently
normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.
Plate A: Conformation of double dewclaws, not
leading to any penalisation
Plate B: Conformation of double dewclaws, with penalisation
Plate C: Conformation of double dewclaws, not acceptable for
breeding
