Character: Gay
and assertive, but chary of strangers.
Size:
Variable, but about 10 or 11 inches at
shoulder for dogs, bitches slightly smaller.
Color:
All colors equally acceptable with or
without
dark tips to ears and beard.
Body
Shape: The length from point of
shoulders to
point of buttocks longer than height at withers, well-ribbed up, strong
loin, well-developed quarters and thighs.
Coat:
Heavy, straight, hard, not woolly or
silky,
of good length, and very dense.
Mouth
and Muzzle: The preferred bite is
either level or slightly undershot. Muzzle of medium length; a square
muzzle is objectionable.
Head: Heavy
head furnishings
with
good fall over eyes, good whiskers and beard, skull narrow, falling
away behind eyes in a marked degree, not quite flat, but not domed or
apple-shaped; straight foreface of fair length. Nose black, the length
from tip of nose to eye to be roughly about one-third of the total
length from nose to back of skull.
Eyes: Dark brown, neither very large
and
full, nor very small and sunk.
Ears: Pendant, heavily feathered.
Legs: Forelegs straight; both forelegs
and
hind legs heavily furnished with hair.
Feet: Well-feathered; should be round and
catlike,
with good pads.
Tail and Carriage: Well-feathered,
should be
carried well over back in a screw; there may be a kink at the end. A
low carriage of stern is a serious fault.