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 BLUE
PICARDY SPANIEL |
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HISTORICAL SUMMARY
| GENERAL APPEARANCE | - Quite low to the ground dog, well built for the job. General appearance on the whole, a true Picardy Spaniel. | |
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| PROPORTIONS | - (standard does not comment). | |
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| SIZE | - Height at the withers: 57 to 60 cm for the males, a little less for the females. | |
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length: (standard
does not comment).
- weight: (standard does not comment). |
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| TEMPERAMENT | - (standard does not comment). | |
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| SKIN | - (standard does not comment). | |
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| COAT | - Hair : Flat; or slightly wavy: legs and tail well furnished with fringes. | |
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| COLOUR | - Grey black speckled forming a bluish shade, with black patches. | |
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| HEAD | - | |
| - | Skull | - Oval, relatively wide without prominent parietal bones, occipital crest slightly visible. |
| - | Stop | - Moderately accentuated but marked. |
| - | Muzzle | - Long and quite broad. |
| - | Nose | - Broad, well open nostrils. |
| - | Lips/Flews | - Wide and pendulous forming a distinctly square muzzle. |
| - | Cheeks | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Jaw/Teeth | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Eyes | - Calm expression; eyes dark, large, well open. |
| - | Eears/Leathers | - Must be set slightly above the eye level, quite thick, framing the head; beautiful wavy silky hair; the leather stretched in its length must reach the tip of the muzzle. |
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| NECK | - Well set. A slight dewlap is permitted. | |
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| BODY | - | |
| - | Topline | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Withers | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Back | - Not too long, well sustained. |
| - | Chest | - Of medium depth. |
| - | Ribs | - Harmoniously sprung and descending to elbow level. |
| - | Belly | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Loins | - Not too long, well sustained. |
| - | Underline | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Croup | - Rather a little falling away. |
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| LIMBS | ||
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| - | Shoulders | - Shoulder and upper arm : Slightly oblique. |
| - | Upperarms | - Slightly oblique. |
| - | Elbows | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Forearms | - Strong and well muscled. |
| - | Carpus | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Pasterns | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Forefeet | - Round, a little broad but not flat, well furnished with hair in between tightly closed toes. |
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| - | Thighs | - Well muscled. |
| - | Stifles/knees | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Lowerthighs | - Long and furnished with profuse fringes. |
| - | Metatarsus | - (standard does not comment). |
| - | Hocks | - Bent without exaggeration and furnished with fringes from the hock to the foot. |
| - | Hindfeet | - Round, a little broad but not flat, well furnished with hair in between tightly closed toes. |
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| Tail | - Not extending too much beyond the hock and definitely without a hook. | |
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| Gait/Movement | - (standard does not comment). | |
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| Faults | -
should be regarded in exact proportion to its degree. Skull : Too narrow-lacking chiselling. Muzzle : Pointed. Eye : Light and too small. Leather : Short, set too high and too thin. Chest : Ribs too flat or too round. Foot : Flat, splayed or too broad. |
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| Severe Faults | - (standard does not comment). | |
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ELIMINATING
FAULTS -
Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified. |
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| NOTE: Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum. | ||