Libro Razas Españolas

Colour: The only accepted colour is black, in its varieties of jet black, common and pitch. White is just accepted on the chest, as a thin tie below the neck and on the fore and hind feet, resting points according to its visibility in nails and tiptoes. Jet black is the best considered, losing value the common black and the pitch black. XII. Size and weight Height at withers: - Between 66 and 73 cm. for males, - Between 62 and 68 cm. for females. Dogs with a height one centimetre over or below the mentioned limits are admitted; in this case, some points can be deducted. Weight: Around 40 kg. XIII. 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. SERIOUS FAULTS - Slobbering dogs. - Blunt canines (tusks) cut. - Very raised ears at rest, very big and separated from the face or completely close to it. - Tucked up belly (greyhound-like). - Rolled up tail; white tip of tail. - White spot on the chest over 1 dm². - All the toes of a foot white. ELIMINATING FAULTS - Aggressive or overly shy. - Mastiff head, very wide and heavy or greyhound-like, long and narrow with a scarcely pronounced stop. - Pink or white nose. - Upper or lower jaw prognathism over 3 mm. - Eyes with different colours; eyes not being between the colour of the rosemary honey (light) and carob honey (dark); very light eye. - Cropped ears, straight in action and nearly straight at rest. - Neck with double dewlap, thicker close to the skull than at the base, longer than 10% of the length from the nose to the occipital crest. - Too long or short body; height to the upper part of the croup a 3 % higher than the height at the withers. - Very thick tail or the same thickness at the base and at the tip; excessively long touching the floor; docked or lacking 2 cm to the hock joint; with abundantly plume in the variety of short hair, or without plume in the variety of long hair. - Another colour but black, or in black dogs, one white or other colour fore or hind foot, any of the limbs with a short of white shoe; no totally black body (except the chest, any hair on the belly, prepuce or tip of the tail), whose spots, not disqualifying, will noticeably rest points. It will not rest points the white hairs consequence of bites, traumatisms or other similar bounds, nor the white hairs of the face typical of the age. White toes are not disqualifying, unless the animal has more than six, noticeably resting points each toe; one only white or other colour toe in the fore feet disqualify the dog. Las razas caninas españolas - Spanish canine breeds 25