GREAT SWISS MOUNTAIN DOG

(Grosser Schweizer Sennenhund)

FCI-Standard N°  58   /  05. 05. 2003 / GB

TRANSLATION : Mrs. C.Seidler, revised by Elke Peper.

ORIGIN : Switzerland.

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 25.03.2003.

UTILIZATION : Originally watch- and draught dog.  Nowadays also companion, guard- and family dog.

CLASSIFICATION F.C.I. :   Group     2   Pinscher and Schnauzer-
                                                                  Molossoid breeds- Swiss
Mountain- and Cattle Dogs and other breeds.
                                               Section    3   Swiss Mountain- and
                                                                   Cattle Dogs.
                                               Without working trial.

BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY :  In 1908, at Langenthal, on the occasion of the jubilee show to mark 25 years of existence of the “Schweizerische Kynologische Gesellschaft” (Swiss Kennel Club) SKG, two short-haired Bernese Mountain Dogs were presented to the great promotor of the Swiss Mountain Dogs, Prof. Albert Heim.  He recognized them to be representatives of the old, vanishing, large Mountain Dog or butcher’s dog, whose ancestors had in the past been widely spread across Europe, bred as guard-, draught- or droving-cattle dogs.  In 1909 they were recognized by the SKG as a separate breed being registered in volume 12 of the Swiss Stud Book.  In 1912, the club for “Grosse Schweizer Sennenhunde” was founded in order to promote this breed and keep it purebred.  The first standard was published by the FCI not before February 5th, 1939.  Today these dogs are also bred in other European countries, they are especially appreciated as family dogs due to their calm, reliable temperament.

GENERAL APPEARANCE :  A tricolour, sturdy, heavy boned and well muscled dog.  In spite of his size and weight, he presents endurance and agility.  The difference between the sexes is distinctly obvious.

IMPORTANT PROPORTIONS :

• Body length (measured from the point of the shoulder to the point of the buttock) to height at withers      = 10 : 9.
• Depth of chest to height at withers                    =   1 : 2.
• Length of skull to length of muzzle                    =   1 : 1.
• Width of skull to width of muzzle                      =   2 : 1.

BEHAVIOUR /TEMPERAMENT : Self-confident, alert, watchful and fearless in everyday situations.  Good-natured and devoted towards people familiar to him.  Self-assured with strangers.  Medium temperament.

HEAD : Strong corresponding to the body, but not heavy.  Dogs stronger in head than bitches.

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Standard (the ICF n.58 of 09/04/93F)

• Origin SWITZERLAND
• Use In origin dog from guard and shooting, hour also dog guides, from utilit and company.
• . CLASSIFICAZIONE FCI Group 2 (dogs of type Pinscher and Schnauzer - Swiss Molossoidi and Bovari). Section 3 (Bovari Swiss). Without job test.
• General aspect
  The Great Swiss Bovaro a tricolour, sturdy dog, equipped of a powerful skeleton and one strongly developed musculature. In spite of the weight and the ransom, agile and much resistant one.
• Important proportions   
  Length of the log: Height=10:9
  Height of the thorax: Height=1:2
  Length of the skull: length of the muso=1:1
  Width of the skull: width of the muso=2:1
• Behavior and character
  Calm, careful, alert and fearless to second of the situations, much cake and attacked its owners. Franc towards the disowned ones, of medium temperament.
• Head and skull
  In harmony with the log, the important and powerful head, but without esagerazione.
  The head of the devout males much massiccia of that one of the females. Wide and flat skull: I furrow median part from the depression skull-facciale and goes progressively disappearing on the sommit of the skull. Little pronounced Stop.
  Black Tartufo, straight nasal cane, without I furrow median: Powerful snout, devout along that high; if approval of profile or from the high, not d the impression to be to tip.
  Labbra little developed and very adherent, of black color.
• Set of teeth
  It completes, sturdy and regular, with closing to scissor. The absence of a premolar (PM1 or PM2) admitted. The M3 (molars 3) are not taken in consideration.
• Eyes
  To almond, of medium largeness, n infossati n sporgenti, of color from the nocciola to the brown, with wide awake and careful expression. The eyelids cover the ocular globe perfectly.
• Orecchie
  Of medium largeness, triangular and attacked rather high, in rest are perfectly hanging and flat along cheeks. When the dog in attention is capacities in ahead. The dense hair on all the parts.
• Neck Powerful and muscoloso, rather tarchiato. Without giogaia.
• Front limbs
  Posizionati rather wide, seen from is perpendicular and parallels.
  Wide, powerful, oblique bachelor, very inserted on the sidewalls of the thorax and many muscolose, that they form with the arms a nearly obtuse angle. Forearm with sturdy, vertical skeleton. Solid Metacarpo, approval perfectly straight, seen of profile leggermente tilted in ahead.
• Log
  Back of medium length, solid and straight. Wide lumbar region and much muscolosa. Long and wide rump that comes down leggermente rounded off towards the estremit. Powerful and wide thorax, come down until the elbows. The cross-sectional part of the thoracic case of shape leggermente oval. The thorax does not have to be n flat n to botte. Sterno the a lot developed and much wide one. Little retratti Ventre and flanks.
• Posterior limbs
  Seen perpendicular give GO BACK TO LIST, not too much sluices. Metatarsi and feet n in outside n in within. The spurs must be remove to you: Long, wide, powerful and muscolose thighs much that they form with the legs, that they are enough long, a very marked obtuse angle. Garretti dry, very angled.
• feet Solid and parallels to the median plan of the body, with fingers very sluices and strongly rounded off. Sturdy nails.
• Tail
  Much large, long one until the garretti. Hanging in rest. High capacity with light curving on the left when the dog in attention or in motion. Capacity does not have never to be rolled up or on the back.
• sailing point
  Lengthened, regular, uniform. Good extension of the front ones with energetic push of the posterior ones; to the trot, approvals of forehead or GO BACK TO LIST, the limbs move in parallel with the median plan of the body.
• Cape
  Double hair, with closed hair of cover, of medium length and sottopelo often, from the dark gray to the black one. A hair of cover short admitted if the dog supplied of sottopelo a much dense one.
• Color
  Tawny-rossicce secret fund with focature and spots symmetrical white women. The focature are found between black and the white man, on cheeks, above the eyes, in the inner part of the orecchie, to sides of the chest, the four feet and under the tail.
  The white man finds on the skull (star) and the nasal cane (list), under the throat and to the chest (without interruption), to the feet and the tip of the tail. Between the list white woman and the focatura on the eyes list of black color must is to us one. A spot white woman on the nape and a collar white man are tolerate to you.
• Ransom Height for the males: 65-72 cm.; Height for the females: 60-68 cm.
• DEFECTS
  All varying in connection with said how much over must be considered like defects and will have to be penalized in function of theirs gravit.
  Disarmoniche proportions, ransom in compliance with the limits does not indicate to you from the standard.
  Serious defects of stature and construction. Secondary sexual characters little pronounce to you. Light or too much too much heavy skeleton. Insufficient musculature.
  Head too much massiccia or too much tightened. Labbra falling. Orecchie attacked high, too much too much low or too much GO BACK TO LIST. Closing to tenaglia, prognatismo or enognatismo. Absence of devout of a PM1 or PM2. Entropion, ectropion. Eyes of clear color. Insellata back. Tail badly capacity. Insufficient angle-shot of front and the posterior ones. Open fingers. Sottopelo brown, yellow or clear gray.
  Absence of white man in head. Too much wide list. White man of the snout that clearly exceeds the angle of the mouth towards cheeks. White man jumps of it white women (who exceeds the metacarpo and the metatarso). Not symmetrical spots. Colors alter to you or slavati.
• Involving defects disqualification
  Not tricolour subjects. Color of bottom of the not black cape. Blue eye. Short hair of cover and without sottopelo. Long hair. Behavioural serious defects of character and (frightening or aggressive dogs much).
• Famous The males must have two testicoli of normal appearance, completely reductions in the scroto.

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