Libro Razas Españolas

Coxal-femoral angle: Of about 115°. Femoral-tibial angle: Of about 120°. Legs: Strong bones and muscles. Hocks: Must be well let down, parallel and vertical. Angle of hock: About 140°. Metatarsus (Rear pastern): Rather short, strong and vertical. Feet: Identical to front feet, but with low set double bony dewclaws. These dewclaws are joined together and joined to the first toe of the foot by a membrane. X. Gait / Movement Supple, typical of shepherd dogs. Gallop only obtained in very large spaces, but in the ring, the typical gait is a short trot, with that gait peculiar to all dogs with dewclaws. XI. Skin Rather thick, close and tight all over the body and the head. Well pigmented. XII. Coat Hair: Long, flat, or very slightly wavy, rough with abundant undercoat on the whole of the posterior third of the body. On the head we notice a beard, moustaches, tuft and eyebrows which do not affect the sight. Tail well covered with hair as are all the extremities. It is noticeable that during the moult we observe a typical phenomenon: the moult occurs in two times. First of all it affects the coat on the front part, giving the impression of two halves of dogs with different coats; then it is the turn of the hind part of the dog and everything becomes uniform again. Colour: Seen from the distance the dog seems to be unicolour and may have lighter shadings at the extremities. Seen close up, it is noticeable that the colour comes from the mixture of hairs of different tones: fawn, brown more or less reddish, grey, black and white. The basic colours deriving from this mixture are: - Fawn, in its light tones, medium or dark. - Sable, with chestnut hairs, fawn, white and black, also in its light tones, medium and dark. - Grey, made up of white, grey and black with shadings going from silver grey to blackgrey. If black is dominant and is simply combined with white, it gives a black which looks frosty. - There are also dogs with a mixture of black, fawn and reddish brown, which can dominate in one or several parts, giving the impression of black and tan subjects. Not admitted are white or black spots. Sometimes a few white hairs, as a star shape on the chest are tolerated, or on the upper part of the toes, but, in that case however, this must not be accompanied by white nails. XIII. Size Height at withers: From 47 to 55 cm for dogs. From 45 to 53 cm for bitches. XIV. 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. Las razas caninas españolas - Spanish canine breeds 40