GENERAL APPEARANCE
Well balanced, sturdy, heavy coated.

CHARACTERISTICS
Gay and assertive.

TEMPERAMENT
Alert, steady but somewhat aloof with strangers.

HEAD & SKULL
Heavy head furnishings with good fall over the eyes, good whiskers and beard. Skull moderately narrow, falling away behind the eyes, not quite flat, but not domed or apple-headed. Straight foreface with medium stop. Nose black. Muzzle about 4 cm (11/2 ins), but not square; length from tip of nose roughly one third total length from nose to back of skull.

EYES
Dark. Medium size, frontally placed, oval, neither large, nor small and sunk. No white showing at base or top.

EARS
Pendant, heavily feathered.

MOUTH
Upper incisors close just behind lower, i.e. reverse scissor bite. Incisors in a broad and as straight a line as possible. Full dentition desirable.

NECK
Strong and well arched.

FOREQUARTERS
Shoulders well laid back. Forelegs straight, heavily furnished with hair.

BODY
Length from point of shoulders to point of buttocks greater than height at withers. Well ribbed. Level topline. Strong loin. Balanced and compact.

HINDQUARTERS
Well developed with good muscle. Good angulation. Heavily furnished with hair. Hocks when viewed from behind parallel and not too close together.

FEET
Round, cat-like with firm pads. Well feathered.

GAIT/MOVEMENT
Free and jaunty.

TAIL
High set, carried well over back but not like a pot hook. Often a kink at end. Well feathered.

COAT
Top coat long, heavy, straight, hard neither wooly nor silky. Moderate undercoat.

COLOUR
Golden, sandy, honey, dark grizzle, slate, smoke, black, parti-colour, white or brown. All equally acceptable.

SIZE
Ideal height: 25.4 cm (10 ins) at shoulder for dogs; bitches slightly smaller. 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.

NOTE
Male animals should have two apparently testicles fully descended into the scrotum.