Origin : SWITZERLAND

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE STANDARD ORIGINATES THEM IN VIGOR : 28.11.2001

Use : conductor of cattle, dog from shepherdesses, guard and small farm. To the day today, also polyvalent dog of utilit and likeable dog from family.

Classification F.C.I. : Group 2: dogs of type Swiss Pinscher and Schnauzer, Molossoidi and bovari dogs. Section 3: Bovari Swiss. Without job test.

SHORT HISTORICAL NEWS the Entlebucher devout the the four small of Bovari Swiss. It comes from the Entlebuch, one goes situated them in the zone of the cantoni of Lucerna and Bern. The first description of this dog under the dialectal name "Entlibucherhund" laughed them to year 1889, but still wanted much time to us before differentiating the two breeds clearly: that one of the Appenzell and that one of the Entlebuch. In the 1913 canine allEsposizione of Langenthal, four exemplary of this small bovaro from the short tail to the birth were introduce you to the prof. Albert Heim, great promotore of the Bovari Swiss. To continuation of its judgments, these dogs were enrolled like quarter race of the Bovari Swiss in the Book of Origins Swiss (L.O.S.). The first Standard, for, was only written up in 1927, after the foundation, 26 August 1926, for initiative of the Dr.. B. Kohler, of the Swiss Club of the Bovaro of the Entlebuch, with the scope to promote breeders of this race in purity. As it attests the reduced number of the registrations to the L.O.S., the race svilupp a lot slowly. However, the Bovaro of the Entlebuch begins to provoke interest when, beside active and untiring its qualit atavistic of bovaro, they were discovered and put to the test also its remarkable dowries of dog of utilit. Today, although the number of the subjects is modest, this tricolour dog from the attractive aspect has found many estimative ones and one increasing popolarit like dog from family is being conquered.

General aspect : dog of ransom leggermente under the average, compact, of format leggermente lengthened, tricolour like all the Bovari Swiss, much dynamic and active one. Lively expression, clever and friendly.

Important proportions :

        Relationship Height: length body = 8:10

        Relationship length snout: length skull = 9:10

Behavior and character : lively, full of temperament, sure of s and lacking in fear; affectionate and faithful with the familiar persons, leggermente mistrustful with the strangers; incorruttibile guardiano; allegro and arranged to learn.

head : of harmonic proportions regarding the body, conical and leggermente dry; longitudinal aces of the devout skull and the nasal cane or little parallels.

 

CRANIAL REGION :

Skull: flat, rather relatively wide, the wide point devout between lattaccatura of the orecchie, is shrunk leggermente towards the snout; little visible swell occipita them, I furrow little marked facade

Stop: little pronounced depression skull-facciale.

Region makes them :

Tartufo: black, leggermente prominente regarding the arc formed from the labbra.

Snout: sturdy, very modeled, clearly demarcated from cheeks and the stop, that it goes progressively shrinking itself without to become to tip; a po' devout short of the distance between stop and the swell occipita them. Straight nasal cane.

Labbra: little developed very adherent to the jaw, pigmented of black

Set of teeth: sturdy, regular and it completes, with closing to scissor. Tolerated the closing to tenaglia, tolerated absence one or two PM1 (premolars 1). Lassenza of the molars 3 (M3) not taken in consideration.

Cheeks: little marked.

Eyes: small, rather round, from the dark brown to the nocciola. Lively, friendly and careful expression. Very adherent eyelids to the ocular globe, with the rhyme pigmented of black.

ORECCHIE: not too much large, attacked high and relatively wide; falling pavilions, of triangular shape, very round off you to the estremit; rigid auricular cartilage and very developed; in rest flat capacities along cheeks; in attention the junction leggermente raised and the orecchie are capacities turned in ahead.

Neck : of medium length, vigorous, dry, inserted in the logwithout interruption.

 

Log : sturdy, leggermente lengthened.

Back: , solid and straight wide; relatively along.

. Regione lombare: sturdy, elastic, not too much short.

Rump: leggermente tilted; relatively long.

Thorax: wide and deep, come down until the elbows. Emphasized chest, moderately bent ribs; the lengthened thoracic case and in section has the shape of a wide oval.

Inferior line and ventre: little it rises to you.

TAIL:

        tail of natural length in extension of the rump leggermente tilted; searched the oscillating tail or hanging capacity

        short tail from birth

The natural tail and the short tail from birth are equivalents.

LIMBS

 

FRONT : it equips you of one sturdy musculature, but not heavy; appiombi n too many straits, n too much wide; short, sturdy, straight legs front, parallels and very posizionate under the log.

Shoulders: long, oblique and very adherent muscolose, bachelor.

Arms: of equal devout length or hardly po' a court of the bachelor. Bachelor-humeral angle of 110-120

Elbows: very adherent

Forearms: relatively short, straight, dry , with sturdy skeleton

. Metacarpi: approvals give extend the straight line of the forearms, side approvals are leggermente angled; relatively short.

POSTERIOR : very muscolosi. Appiombi straight and parallels, not too much sluices seen give GO BACK TO LIST.

Thighs: rather long and forming to the ginocchio, with the legs, an angle opened enough. Wide and strong thighs.

Legs: long nearly how much the thighs, dry.

Garretti: solid, relatively low, very angled.

Metatarsi: short, sturdy, rather vertical and parallels. The spurs must be remove to you, to exception of the countries in which such removal prohibited for law.

feet : round, sluices, with arched fingers; straight capacities and parallels; short and sturdy nails, thick and resistant bearings.

sailing point : melted movement, covering much land, with light step and one powerful push of the posterior one. Approvals give and give GO BACK TO LIST, the limbs are lead straight in ahead.

 

Cape :

 

Hair : hard hair. Hair of short, very adherent, sturdy cover and diamond; sottopelo driven in. The hair leggermente waved on the garrese and/or the tolerated, but not searched back.

 

COLOR And DESIGN : typically tricolour. Secret fund with focature from the yellow to the rust and spots white women, devout possible the symmetrical ones. The focature are found over the eyes, on cheeks, the snout and the throat, to sides of the chest and on four legs between black and the white man. Sottopelo from the dark gray to the brown .

• Spots White women:

•         list tight and very visible white woman, that it comes down without interruption from the skull until the nasal cane and that completely covers in part or the snout.

•         zone white woman that it leave from the mento and comes down on the throat without interruptions until the chest.

•         white man to the four feet

•         when the tail of natural length, searched lestremit white woman

Not wished, but tolerated, the small spot white woman on the neck (not devout large of average palm)

Ransom

Height : males:    44-50 cm. tolerance until 52

females: 42-48 cm. tolerance until to 50

 

Defects: every diversit from the points on cited to consider defect to estimate in relation to the degree of removal from the demanded ideal and to penalize to second of the gravit.

•          Little defined secondary sexual characters

•          In a marked manner wrong proportions

•          Heavy or too much too much light skeleton

•          Insufficient musculature

•          Rounded off skull

•          Stop much marked one

•          Short snout, too much along or too much appuntito, nose raised (from montone), not rectilinear nasal cane

•          Light prognatismo

•          Lack of teeth to exception of two premolars 1 (PM1)          Eyes clear, infossati or too much too much sporgenti

•          Closing of the eyelids defective

         Orecchie attacked too much low, too much small and too much appuntite, not adherent, with folds.          Back too much short, insellato or cifotico          Raised rump or strongly tilted          Flat thoracic case or to shape of botte. Chest undeveloped .          Tail broken off, tail capacity on the back

         Angle-shot of the front limbs too much opened

         Front cagnoli or mancini

         Crushed articulation of the metacarpo cedevole or

         Angle-shot of the posterior limbs too much opened, appiombi vaccine, cagnoli, too much tightened          Feet lengthen to you, with open fingers

         Sailing point with short, rigid steps, too much near the ground, intercrosses to you

•          Defects of design:

• or         list interrupted white woman

• or         spot white woman on the nape that exceeds average palm

• or         white man who exceeds the carpi clearly

• or         the four feet do not introduce all the design white man

• or         collar uninterrupted white man (serious defect)

• or         pettorina interrupted white woman (serious defect)

• or         absence of the focature color rust between the white man and the black one of the front limbs (serious defect)

• or         absence of the design white man on the head, completely black head (defect much serious)

         Uncertain character, lack of temperament, light aggressivit.

Defects from disqualification

•         Frightening or aggressive dogs

•         Enognatismo, emphasized prognatismo, arched dentale which had

•         Entropion, ectropion

•         Yellow eyes from rapace, blue eyes, also only part of the iride

•         Rolled up tail

•         Hair too much along or too much soft, Absence of sottopelo

•         Defects of color:

• or        Not tricolour cape

• or        color of various bottom from the black one

•         Dog that does not catch up the inferior limit of the ransom or that it exceeds the advanced limit of tolerance.

NB : the males must have two normal testicoli, completely reductions in the scroto.