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• Back : Weak or slack back; roached back; sloping topline.

• Chest : Too broad; « barrel ribs »; ribs too flat or weak.
• Tail : A snapped or tightly curled tail; highly plumed tail; tail set

too low or too high.
• Shoulders : Straight shoulders; loose shoulders.
• Forequarters : Weak pasterns; too heavy bone; too narrow or too

wide in the front; out at the elbows.
• Hindquarters : Straight stifles, cow-hocks, too narrow or too wide

in the rear.
• Feet : Soft or splayed toes; paws too large and clumsy; paws too
small and delicate; toeing in or out.

• Gait/Movement : Short, prancing or choppy gait, lumbering or
rolling gait; crossing or crabbing.

• Hair : Long, rough, or shaggy coat; texture too harsh or too silky;
trimming of the coat, except as permitted above.

DISQUALIFYING FAULTS :

• Aggressive or overly shy dogs.
• Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities

shall be disqualified.
• Dogs over 23,5 inches (60 cm) and bitches over 22 inches (56
cm).

N.B.:

• Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully
descended into the scrotum.
• Only functionally and clinically healthy dogs, with breed typical

conformation should be used for breeding.

FCI-St. N° 270 / 24.01.2000

http://www.fci.be/Nomenclature/Standards/270g05-en.pdf