Libro Razas Españolas

hair variety, the plume must be abundantly covered with long hair. Tail hanging: while at rest, it just hangs or is slightly curved outwards, lightly touching the hock joints, considering a serious fault if the tip touches the floor. Waving and raised over the horizontal in a sickle, without rolling it, while in action. VIII. Limbs FOREQUARTERS: General Appearance: Strong legs, vertical; seen from the front and in profile, parallel and perpendicular to the floor. Shoulders: Oblique and strong. Scapular-humeral angle: 115°. Arms: As long as the shoulder blade. Elbows: No deviations, close to the thorax. Humeral-radial angle: 130°. Forearm: Strong, well angulated, perpendicular. Vertical bone structure, strong, long and straight. Metacarpus (Pastern): Short and slightly oblique. Forefeet: Almost harefeet (a bit shorter and wider than these), with semihigh, semiarched, placed together toes and a very hard and black pad. Without marked interdigital membrane. HINDQUARTERS: General Appearance: Muscled, strong; vertical. Attenuated and hard muscular relieves. Coxal-femoral angle: 115º, like the scapular-humeral. Upper thigh: Strong and muscled. Femoral-tibial angle: 130º, like the humeral-radial. Leg: Long and powerful. Hock joint: Little pronounced, very open angulation of 135º. The height of the hock joint is approximately inferior to the third of his height at the withers. Metatarsus (Rear pastern): Well marked. Hind feet: Almost harefeet, flat, semiarched and placed together toes. Hard and black pad. Arched, hard and black nails. Without marked interdigital membrane. He can be born with or without dewclaws, these have to be amputated in the first case. IX. Movement His gait must be firm and elegant. Trot in diagonal bipeds, slightly tilting the rear third with regard to the front one. Gallop is natural, coarse, quick, the hind legs well apart at the base, placing them on the outside part of the front legs, as if he moved jumping. The preferred gait and the working one is the gallop. X. Skin Elastic, without wrinkles, hard and light grey. XI. Coat Hair: Short and flat, its length varies between 1,5 cm and 3 cm at the loin; very thin subhair, scant thickness and very flat. In the long hair variety, it can be slightly wavy at the loin, of more than 7 cm approx. depending on the season of the year and corresponding the largest to the winter. Well distributed subhair and scant thickness, being longer in the plume of the tail, tip of the ears and rear part of the limbs. In both varieties, it must be soft, hard and thin enough. Las razas caninas españolas - Spanish canine breeds 24