1888 Standard
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Ch.Sir Victor Cavendish
DOB 1887
| This first Standard was first published in 1888 A History and
Description of the Collie or Sheepdog in His British Varieties by Rawdon
Lee.
SKULL:Capacious and rather squarely formed, giving plenty of room for brain power. The parts over the eyes should be well arched an the whole well covered with hair. JAW: Should be fairly long and square. The “stop” should be define, but not to a great extent. EYES: These ofcoarse vary in different colours of dogs. In the dark blue shades they should be dark brown. In the lighter colours they will be found to follow them, and become paler in shade, while where white predominates a wall or marble eye may be considered very typical. NOSE: Always black in colour, fairly large and capacious. TEETH:Strong and firm, and should be evenly placed in the jaw. Working dogs often have their incisors broken off. This is in no way detrimental. EARS: Medium size and carried close to the head coated with hair of moderate length. LEGS:The forelegs should be straight and possess plenty of bone. They should remove the body a medium height of the ground without approaching legginess. They should be well coated with hair. FEET: Moderately large; round; toes well arched and pads capacious and hard. TAIL: This is the most important point in the Old English Sheepdog. Without a doubt many dogs are bred without the slightest approach to a caudal appendage, while on the other hand, some litters will be found with, half, three quarters and whole length tails. The breeding of those with out tails should be encouraged and persevered with and given preference to in judging, providing dogs are good elsewhere. A tail of any length takes away the appearance and corkiness of the dog. A docked dog can generally be detected by the bluntness at the end of the stump. NECK AND SHOULDERS: The neck should be fairly long, arched and graceful and well coated with hair. The shoulders should be set on sloping, and the dog generally found to stand lower at the shoulders than on his hindquarters. BODY: Rather short and very compact. The ribs should be well sprung, and brisket deep and capacious. The loin should be very stout, and to a certain extent arched, while the hindquarters should be bulky, and the hams densely covered with coat, very often of a softer and more wooly description than is to be found on other parts of the body. COAT: Profuse and of good texture, i.e.,fairly hard and strong. There should be a double or undercoat. COLOUR: Varies, but preference should be given to dark blue, light or pigeon blue or steel grey dogs. These colours are generally intermixed with white, which imparts to the dog a more attractive appearance. White collars, legs chest and face should be encouraged. HEIGHT: Fair stand and measurement of the shoulder from 20 inches and upwards. The bitches of course, smaller than the dogs. Great height is not to be encouraged, for it takes away the corkiness and cobbines of the dog. GENERAL APPEARANCE: He is a strong, compact looking dog, profusely coated all over. He generally gallops with his head down, having a peculiar springing style of movement, and his whole make and shape of body would strike one as being very much after the style of a bear. An animal which people not conversant with the breed, will generally quote as an analogy. |
| Scale of points 1888
Shape of head and colour of eyes.................................20 Teeth.............................................................................. 5 Ears...............................................................................10 Neck and shoulders....................................................... 5 Legs and feet.................................................................10 Back, loins and hindquarters..........................................10 Coat................................................................................20 Colour(any shade of blue,grizzled or mirled, with or without white markings)...........................10 Size(weight from 45lb. To 60lb.)......................................10 |