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GENERAL
APPEARANCE: Head, in general outline, giving a square appereance
when viewed from any point. Breadth greatly desired: in ratio to
length of whole head and face as 2/3. Body massive, broad, long
powerfully buit, on legs wide apart and squarely set. Muscles sharply
defined. Size a great desideratum, if combined with quality. Height
and substance important in both points, are proportionately combined.
CHARACTERISTICS: large, massive, powerful, symmetrical
and well knit frame. A combination of grandeur and courage.
TEMPERAMENT: calm, affectionate to owners, but
capable of guardian.
HEAD AND SKULL: skull broad between ears, forehead
flat, but wrinkled when attention is excited. Brows (superciliary
ridges) slighty raised. Muscles of temples and cheeks (temporal
and masseter) well developed. Arch across skull of a rounded, flattened
curve, with a depression uo centre of forehead from median line,
between eyes, to half way up sagital suture. Face or muzzle, short,
broad under eyes and keeping nearly parallel in width to end of
nose; Truncated, i.e., blunt and cut off squarely, thus forming
a right-angel with upper line of face, of great depth from point
of nose to under-jaw. Under Jaw broad to end. Nose broad, with widely
spreading nostrils when viewed from front, flat (not pointed or
turned up) in profile. Lips diverging at obtuse angles with septum,
and slightly pendulous so as to show a square profile. Length of
muzzle to whole head and face as 1/3. Circumference of muzzle (measured
mid-way between eyes and nose) to that of head (measured before
the ears) as 3/5.
Eyes: small, wide apart, divided by at least space
of two eyes. Stop between eyes well marked but not too abrupt. Coloured
hazel brown, darker the better, showing no haw.
Ears: small, thin to touch, wide apart, set on at highest
points of sides of skull, so as to continue outline across summit,
and laying flat and close to cheeks when in repose.
Mouth: Canine teeth healthy, powerful and wide apart; incisors
level, or lower projecting beyond upper but never so much as to
become visible when mouth is closed.
NECK: slightly arched, moderately long, very musculas, and
measuring in circumference about one or two inches less than skull
before ears.
FOREQUARTERS: shoulder and arm slightly sloping, heavy and
muscular. Legs straight, strong and set wide apart; bones being
large. Elbow square. Pasterns upright.
BODY: chest wide, deep and well let down between forelegs.
Ribs arched and well rounded. False ribs deep and well set back
to hips. Girth one-third more than heigth at shoulder. Back and
loins wide, and muscular, flat and very wide in bitch slightly arched
in a dog. Great depth of flancs.
HINDQUARTERS: broad,
wide and muscular, with well-developed second things, hocks bent,
wide apart, and quite squarely set when standing or walking.
FEET:
large and roud. Toes well arched up. Nails black.
TAIL: set on high, and reaching to hocks, os a little below
them, wide as its root and tapering to end, hanging straight in
repose, but forming a curve with end pointing upwards, but not over
back, when dog is excited.
MOVIMENT: powerful, easy extension.
COAT: short and close lying, but not too fine over shoulders,
neck and back.
COLOUR: apricot-fawn, silver-fawn, fawn or dark fawn-brindle.
In any case, muzzle, ears and nose should be black with black around
orbits and extending upwards between them.
FAULTS: any departure from the foregoing points should be
considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should
be regarded in exact proportion to its degree.
Note: male animals should have two apparently normal testicles
fully descendend into the scrotum.
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