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Kennel
Club
Standard
for
Pomeranian
General
Appearance:
Compact,
short
coupled
dog, well
knit in
frame.
Exhibiting
great
intelligence
in
expression;
activity
and
buoyancy
in
deportment.
Characteristics:
Sound,
vivacious
and
dainty.
Temperament:
Extrovert:
lively and
intelligent.
Head
&
skull:
Head and
nose foxy
in
outline,
skull
flat,
large in
proportion
to muzzle
which
finishes
finely and
free from
lippiness.
Nose black
in white,
orange and
shaded
sable
dogs;
brown in
chocolate
tipped
sable
dogs, but
in other
colours
may be
"self-coloured",
never
parti-coloured
or flesh.
Eyes:
Medium
size,
slightly
oval, not
full, not
set too
wide
apart;
bright,
dark and
showing
great
intelligence.
In white,
orange,
shaded and
cream
dogs, rims
black.
Ears:
Small, not
set too
wide
apart, not
too low
down, but
carried
perfectly
erect.
Mouth:
Jaws
strong,
with a
perfect,
regular
and
complete
scissor
bit, i.e.
the upper
teeth
closely
over-lapping
the lower
teeth and
set square
to the
jaws.
Neck:
Rather
short and
well set
into
shoulders.
Forequarters:
Shoulders
clean and
well laid
back. Fine
boned
legs,
perfectly
straight,
of medium
length in
due
proportion
to size of
dog.
Body:
Back
short,
body
compact,
well
ribbed up,
barrel
well
rounded.
Chest
fairly
deep, not
too wide
but in
proportion
to size of
dog.
Hindquarters:
Fine
boned.
Legs
neither
cow-hocked
nor wide
behind;
medium
angulation.
Feet:
Small,
compact
and
cat-like.
Tail:
Characteristic
of breed,
high set,
turned
over back
and
carried
flat and
straight,
profusely
covered
with long,
harsh,
spreading
hair.
Gait/movement:
Free
moving,
brisk and
buoyant.
Coat:
Two coats,
an
under-coat
and an
outer-coat.
Former
soft and
fluffy,
the latter
long,
perfectly
straight,
harsh in
texture
and
covering
whole of
body; very
abundant
round neck
and fore
part of
shoulders
and chest;
forming
frill
extending
over
shoulders.
Forequarters
well
feathered,
thighs and
hindlegs
well
feathered
to hocks.
Colours:
All
colours
permissible,
but free
from black
or white
shadings.
Whole
colours
are:
White,
black,
brown,
light or
dark, blue
as pale as
possible.
Orange
which
should be
as self-coloured
and bright
as
possible.
Beaver.
Cream dogs
have black
noses and
black eye
rims round
eyes.
White must
be quite
free from
lemon or
any other
colours. A
few white
hairs, in
any of the
self-coloured
dogs
permissible
but
undesireable.
Dogs
(other
than
white)
with white
or tan
markings
highly
undesireable
and not
considred
whole
coloured
specimens.
In
parti-coloured
dogs,
colours
evenly
distributed
on body in
patches; a
dog with
white or
tan feet
or chest
not a
parti-coloured
dog.
Shaded
sables
should be
shaded
throughout
with three
or more
colours,
the hair
to be as
uniformly
shaded as
possible,
and with
no patches
of self
colour. In
mixed
classes,
where
whole
coloured
and
parti-coloured
Pomeranians
compete
together,
the
preference
should, if
in all
other
points
they are
equal, be
given to
the whole
coloured
specimens.
Size:
Ideal
weights,
Dogs:
1.8-2 kg
(4-4½
lbs),
Bitches:
2-2.5 kg(
4½ - 5½
lbs).
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
normal
testicles
fully
descended
into the
scrotum.
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