FCI-Standard N° 112 (breed cancelled)

Gråhund     Foto

Mit seiner quadratischen Statur, dem kecken, aufmerksamen Blick und der geringelten Rute war der "kleine graue Elchhund" ein typischer "Spitzhund". Sein Wesen wird als gutmütig und herzlich beschrieben, zudem folgsam und ruhig. Archäologen fanden Spuren solcher Hunde, die bereits vor 6000 Jahren lebten. Der Grahund wurde in seiner Heimat Schweden wohl vornehmlich zur Jagd nach Elch, Hirsch, Luchs und Bär in schwierigem Gelände und über große Strecken eingesetzt. Sein liebenswerter Charakter hatte den kompakten, kleinen Hund - der dem Norwegischen Elchhund zum Verwechseln ähnlich sah - aber auch zu einem geschätzten Begleithund gemacht. Wenn er in einem wärmeren Land lebt, muß er häufig gebürstet und gebadet werden. Laut FCI wird er der Gruppe 1, den Schäferhunden, zugeordnet.

Widerristhöhe: Rüden bei etwa 52 cm und Hündinnen ca. 49 cm.

Gewicht: ohne Angaben.

Farbe:
Grau in verschiedenen Schattierungen, dabei heller auf der Brust, dem Bauch, am Hals und an den Läufen, dunkel vor allem an Rücken, Ohren und Schnauze. Das Deckhaar sollte schwarze Spitzen aufweisen, die Unterwolle dagegen ausschließlich grau sein.

FCI-Standard N° 113 / 09. 11. 1995 (Dutch / Ned. standaard)

BRIARD (Berger de Brie)     Foto

Translation: Mrs. Peggy Davis

Origin: France.

Date of Publication of the Valid Original Standard: 06.05.1988

Utilization: Sheepdog.

FCI Classification:

Group 1 : Sheepdogs and Cattle Dogs (except Swiss Cattle Dogs)
Section 1: Sheepdogs
With working trial

GENERAL APPEARANCE:
Hardy dog, supple, muscular and well proportioned, of vigorous movement, balanced temperament, neither aggressive nor timid.

Penalisation: Aggressive, soft, timid, clumsy.

Penalisation: Cobby dog: no Excellent. Sizes superior to 0,68 m and 0,64 m.

Disqualification: Below the minimum. More than 2 cm above the maximum size. All subjects not reaching the minimum size cannot be confirmed.

HEAD:

 
Strong, long, pronounced stop midway between the top of the head and the tip of the nose, furnished with hair forming beard, moustache and eyebrows slightly hiding the eyes.

Penalisation: Short head, too long, no balance between muzzle and skull. Disproportion between head and body. Hairy head to the extent of hiding the shape; beard, moustache and eyebrows insufficient, stop too pronounced or non-existent.

Disqualification: The above mentioned faults too pronounced.

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:

• Absence of 1 incisor
• Defective mouth, slight prognathism without loss of contact.
• Absence of 1 premolar
• Absence of 2 incisors
• Absence of 2 premolars

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:

• Rump too inclined, too straight,
• Same faults accentuated,
• Rump definitely higher than the withers.

QUARTERS: Well muscled, with strong bone and vertical limbs.
Penalisation:

• Legs not vertical, loose shoulders, thighs set too much apart, weakness in pasterns or too straight, leaning on toes,
• Bad angulation of the shoulder, short hair on the legs, frail legs, weak bone structure.

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:

• A little too short, no hook, hair too short,
• Carriage very much exceeding the line of the back,
• Carriage below or under the belly,
• Carriage under the belly when in action.

• Carried on the back in hunting horn or perpendicular (stiff),
• Trace of operation rectifying the tail carriage.

• Feet too long, flat, splayed,
• Toeing in or out,
• Not sufficiently covered with hair.

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:

• Not dry enough, slightly curly, no undercoat. In case of requiring acceptance for breeding: postponement of 6 months,
• Too short
• Fine hair.

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:

• Black with too many reddish glints,
• Fawn not warm enough, white patch on chest,
• Blackening overlay to pronounced at the edge of the shading.
• Very light fawn, washed out.

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 good 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:

• Placed too high (midway of the hock),
• Lack of two nails,
• Lack of bony section in a double dewclaw (see explantory sketch, plate B).

• Single dewclaws,
• No dewclaws,
• Lack of two bony sections in a double dewclaw, even if the nails are there,
• Lack of one bony section in each double dewclaw, even if the nails are there (see sketch explaining - plate C).

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

1. Dewclaws with complete bony sections
2. Dewclaws with bony sections fused or attached together
3. Dewclaws with complete bony parts and two partially bony parts - or long, floating dewclaws

1. One empty dewclaw = no C.A.C.I.B.
2. One dewclaw empty + one floating dewclaw = no C.A.C.I.B

1. Missing one bony part in each double dewclaw = acceptance for breeding refused
2. Missing two bony parts in one or two dewclaws = acceptance for breeding refused

TRANSLATION : Mrs. Peggy Davis.

ORIGIN : France.

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 06.05.1964.

UTILIZATION : Pointing dog.

CLASSIFICATION F.C.I. : Group 7       Pointing Dogs.

                                              Section 1.2  Continental Pointing Dogs, « Spaniel » type.

                                              With working trial.

GENERAL APPEARANCE : Stocky and vigorous dog.

HEAD

CRANIAL REGION :

Skull : Round and developed at the top, occipital crest prominent; the parietals are rather round. The forehead rising towards the topknot which must be very curly and well placed on the top of the skull, leaving the forehead bare.

Stop : Forming a weak angle, although marked.

FACIAL REGION :

Nose : Brown, protruding perceptibly above the front of the lips, rather pointed.

Muzzle : Long, arched in the middle part.

Lips : Fine and slightly let down, making the muzzle rather pointed.

Eyes : Dark amber or hazel, rather small, well set into the socket; kind and frank expression.

Ears : Medium thickness, flat, set on rather low in such a way as to keep them away from the cheeks; long and furnished with long silky very curly hair, joining the top knot to show a beautiful curly wig really framing the head.

NECK : A little arched, neat, well muscled, joining finely to the head and solidly to the shoulders.

BODY :

Back : Straight or slightly convex.

Loin : Quite short, broad, solid, muscular.

Croup : Very slightly oblique.

Chest : Deep, broad, going down fully to level of the elbow; ribs ong and protruding, the last rib close to the hip.

Flanks : Flat and a little raised.

TAIL : Set almost at the level of the loin line, carried quite straight, generally docked to one third of its length; thick at the base, well feathered with curly hair which should surround the tail completely. When the tail is not docked, it must be of medium length, carried a little curved.

LIMBS : The legs must be rather short, the dog being rather low to the ground, yet without falling into the Cocker type.

FOREQUARTERS :

Shoulders : Strong, long, sloping, close at the point where they join the spinal column.

Upper arm : Strong and muscled.

HINDQUARTERS :

Haunch : Prominent and reaching the height of the back.

Thighs : Straight, well let down, muscular, fleshy, with culottes. Point of buttock prominent.

Hock joint : Broad and straight, without deviation either in or out.

Hocks : Rather short, furnished especially at the back with a curly fringe. Dewclaws to be avoided.

FEET : Round, set true, furnished with long, curly hairs between the toes.

COAT

HAIR : Curly and slightly ruffled.

COLOUR : Brown, preferably brown and grey mottled, with dead leaf glints.

SIZE  : 52 - 58 cm.

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.

·      Skull flat on the sides, forehead parallel to the muzzle; lack of topknot, topknot reaching to the superciliary arches or topknot formed by hanging hair.

·      Stop forming a weak angle, although marked.

·      Nose black, pale, dudley nose or round.

·      Muzzle short or too convex.

·      Lips thick, with flews.

·      Eyes too light, set level with the head surface or too sunken. Look unfriendly or vicious.

·      Ears thick, folded, too short, set too high, carried either forward or backward.

·      Neck too heavy, flat on its top line, too thick in its junction with the head.

·      Back long, narrow or hollow.

·      Loin long, narrow or flat.

·      Croup falling steeply away, too straight.

·      Chest insufficiently let down, too round or hollow; ribs flat or too close together.

·      Flanks too fleshy, too deep.

·      Tail set too high or too low, too curved, carried sabre fashion with a plume.

·      Shoulders short, straight, wide apart at the summit.

·      Upper arm thin.

·      Haunch low set.

·      Thigh flat.

·      Hock joints deviated, straight, too wide apart or too close together.

·      Hocks long, oblique from back to front or deviating to the right or the left, without fringes.

·      Feet narrow, much too broad, too hairy; fleshy pads.

·      Coat too flat, too curly, too hard or too fine; topknot not curly or falling as in the Poodle.

·      Colour black or black and white, presence of tan markings.

Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.

N.B. : Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.

TRANSLATION : John Miller and Raymond Triquet.

ORIGIN : France.

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD: 25.03.2003.

UTILISATION : Pointing breed used principally on feather but can also hunt fur bearing game.

CLASSIFICATION F.C.I : Group 7         Pointing Dogs and Setters

                                             Section 1.2    Continental Pointing Dogs

                                             With Working Trial

BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY : It is a descendant of dogs obtained by crossing an English pointer with a Continental pointer.

The breed was created around 1830 in the royal kennels at Compiègne, then in Saint Germain en Laye.

This dog was in great vogue until the beginning of the 20^th century and was the most shown pointing breed in the first dog shows, notably at the first French dog show of 1863.

The French breed club was created in March, 1913.

GENERAL APPEARANCE : A breed of medium general proportions with planes of the head and of the muzzle parallel, or very slightly divergent, and with a moderately marked stop.

The bone is relatively heavy, the muscular system adapted to work requiring endurance.

The coat is fawn and white in colour, without any black being present.

In action, its quest is of average range and its gallop regular and supple.

BEHAVIOUR / TEMPERAMENT : Hunter above all, it is very sociable, equable and affectionate and won’t suffer brusque treatment during its training. Everything considered, it is easy to train.

It hunts with passion pheasant, partridge and woodcock on any terrain, retrieving with a soft mouth.

Very close to man, it appreciates living with the family.

HEAD

CRANIAL REGION :

Skull: Slightly rounded, ogival at the rear, with a prominent occipital protuberance. The zygomatic arch is hardly emphasized.

Stop: Not too pronounced.

FACIAL REGION :

Nose: Broad, with well-open nostrils, dark pink in colour.

Muzzle: Bridge of the nose straight or very slightly convex; muzzle of the same length as the skull.

Lips: They completely cover the lower jaw; they are relatively fine and devoid of black spots.

Jaws/Teeth: The jaws are sturdy, of equal length; the teeth are large, well aligned. Scissors bite.

Palate: Devoid of black.

Eyes: Well open, relatively large, golden-yellow in colour, well set in the orbits; the look is candid and mild.

Ears: Set on level with the eye, not too long. The pinna presents a longitudinal crease. They are rounded at their extremities and are slightly detached from the head.

NECK : Muscled, relatively long, somewhat arched, a very slight dewlap is tolerated.

BODY :

Back: Horizontal.

Loin: Relatively short, broad and sturdy. 

Croup: Slightly slanting.

Chest: Long, deep and broad. The point of the sternum is slightly protruding. The ribs are long and well sprung.

Abdomen: Slightly tucked-up and joining the chest progressively, without rupture. The chest being long, the flank is short.

TAIL : Set relatively low, it doesn’t reach further than the point of the hock, is thick at the beginning and terminates in a point; in action, it is carried horizontally.

LIMBS : Good bone, at rest the muscles are discernable under the skin.

FOREQUARTERS :

Shoulder : Long, oblique, muscled, as suits a galloper.

Arm: Slightly sloping.

Forearm: Strong, muscular, vertical.

Metacarpus (Pastern): Short, very slightly sloping seen in profile.

Foot: Long, toes tight, toenails very light in colour, even white, pads firm.

HINDQUARTERS : Limbs well poised when seen from behind.

Thigh: Long and muscled.

Lower Thigh: Well muscled.

Hock: Broad and in the axis of the body.

Metatarsus (rear pastern): Short, vertical, dry.

Foot: Identical to the forefoot.

GAIT/MOVEMENT : The normal gait is the gallop; it should be supple, balanced and capable of being maintained; its reach is average.

At any gait, the head is carried slightly above the topline, never lower.

The Saint Germain pointer covers ground well, whatever the gait.

SKIN : Rather fine.

COAT

HAIR : Short, not too fine.

COLOUR: Dull white with orange (fawn) markings; some mottling is tolerated, but not sought after. The ear is fawn (a very sparse amount of white is tolerated but not sought after).

HEIGHT

MALES:          56 cm minimum (22”)

                        62 cm maximum (24,4”)

                        with a tolerance of +2 cm (0,8”) for exceptional subjects

FEMALES:      54 cm minimum (21,3”)

                        59 cm maximum (28,7”)

                        with a tolerance of +2 cm (0,8”) for exceptional subjects

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.

• Skull :  Too broad.

• Eyes: Small, wild looking, lemon-coloured.

• Ears: Reminding one of the corkscrew ears of scent hounds.

• Croup: Too slanted.

• Feet : Splayed, presence of dewclaws.

ELIMINATING FAULTS :

• Temperament: Aggressive or overly shy.

·      Lack of type:  Insufficient breed characteristics, which means the animal on the whole doesn’t resemble other samples of the breed.

• Jaws/Teeth: Absence of more than one tooth, aside from the first premolars; faulty position of the teeth. Overshot or undershot mouth.

• Eyes: Brown or black in colour.

• Abnormal markings: Presence of black, notably:

On the nose

On the lips

On the palate

In the nails

• Height: Outside the limits defined by the standard.

 Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.

 N.B. : Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.

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