1905 OESCA Standard
Ch.Fair Weather
DOB 1906
Margaret Collyer
Reprinted with permission by Bob & Carol Martin
| SKULL: Capacious and rather squarely formed, giving plenty
of room for brain power. The parts over the eyes should be well arched
and the whole well covered with hair.
JAW: Fairly long, strong, square and truncated. The stop should be well defined to avoid a deerhound face. ( The attention of judges is particularly called to the above properties, as a long narrow head is a deformity.) EYES: Vary according to the color of the dog, dark brown preferred, but in a glaucous or blue dogs, a pearl, wall or china eye is considered typical. (A light eye is most objectionable.) NOSE: Always black, large and capacious. TEETH:Strong and large, evenly placed and level in opposition. EARS: Small, and carried flat to side of head, coated moderately. LEGS: The forelegs should be dead straight, with plenty of bone, removing the body a medium height from the ground, without approaching legginess, and well coated all around. FEET: Small, round; toes well arched, and pads thick and hard. TAIL: Should not be any. When not natural born bobtails, however, puppies should be docked at the first joint from the body and the operation performed when they are three to four days old. NECK AND SHOULDERS: The neck should be fairly long, arched gracefully and well coated with hair. The shoulders sloping and narrow at the points, the dog standing lower at the shoulder than at the loin. BODY: Rather short and very compact, ribs well sprung and brisket deep and capacious. The loin should be very stout and gently arched, while the hindquarters should be round and muscular and with well let down hocks, and the hams densely coated with a long thick jacket in excess of any other part. COAT: Profuse and of good hard texture, not straight but shaggy, and free from curl. The undercoat should be a waterproof pile, when not removed by grooming or season. COLOR:Any shade of gray, grizzle, blue or blue-merled with or without white markings, or in reverse. (Any shade of brown or sable to be considered distinctly objectionable, and not to be encouraged.) HEIGHT: Twenty-two inches and upwards for dogs and slightly less for bitches, Type character and symmetry are of the greatest importance, and are on no account to be sacrificed for size alone. GENERAL APPEARANCE:A strong compact looking dog, of great symmetry, absolutely free from legginess or weaselness, profusely coated all over, very elastic in his gallop, but in walking or trotting he has a characteristic ambling or pacing movement, and his bark should be loud with a peculiar pot casse ring in it. Taking him all around, he is a thickset, muscular, able-bodied dog with a most intelligent expression, free from all Poodle or Deerhound character. |
| Scale of points 1905
Head...............................................................................5 Eyes................................................................................5 Color..............................................................................10 Ears................................................................................5 Body- loins and hindquarters.........................................20 Jaws..............................................................................10 Nose...............................................................................5 Teeth.............................................................................. 5 Legs...............................................................................10 Neck and shoulders....................................................... 10 Coat................................................................................15 |