ORIGIN
: Great Britain.
DATE
OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD
: 24.06.1987.
UTILIZATION
: Terrier.
Section 3
Bull type Terriers.
Without working trial.
GENERAL
APPEARANCE : Strongly built, muscular, well balanced and active with a keen,
determined and intelligent expression. A unique feature is a downfaced,
eggshaped head. Irrespective of
size dogs should look masculine and bitches feminine.
BEHAVIOUR
AND TEMPERAMENT : The Bull Terrier is the gladiator of the canine race, full of fire
and courageous. Of even temperament and amenable to discipline.
Although obstinate is particularly good with people.
HEAD : Long, strong and deep right to end of muzzle,
but not coarse. Viewed from front
eggshaped and completely filled, its surface free from hollows or indentations.
Profile curves gently downwards from top of skull to tip of nose.
CRANIAL
REGION
:
Skull
:
Top of skull almost flat from ear to ear.
FACIAL
REGION
:
Nose
:
Should be black. Bent downwards at
tip. Nostrils well developed.
Lips
: Clean and tight.
Jaws/Teeth
: Under-jaw deep and strong. Teeth
sound, clean, strong, of good size, regular with a perfect, regular and complete
scissor bite, i. e. upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set square
to the jaws.
Eyes
: Appearing narrow, obliquely placed and triangular, well
sunken, black or as dark brown as possible so as to appear almost black
and with a piercing glint. Distance
from tip of nose to eyes perceptibly greater than that from eyes to top of skull.
Blue or partly blue undesirable.
Ears
:
Small, thin and placed close together. Dog
should be able to hold them stiffly erect, when they point straight upwards.
NECK
: Very muscular, long, arched, tapering from shoulders to head and free from
loose skin.
BODY
: Well rounded with marked spring of rib and great depth from withers to brisket,
so that latter nearer ground than belly.
Back
: Short, strong, with backline behind withers level, arching or roaching
slightly over loins.
Loins
: Broad, well muscled.
Chest
: Broad when viewed from front.
Underline
: From brisket to belly forms a graceful upward curve.
TAIL
: Short, set on low and carried horizontally.
Thick at root, it tapers to a fine point.
LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS
: Forelegs have strongest type of round, quality bone ; dog should stand
solidly upon them and they should be perfectly parallel.
In mature dogs length of forelegs should be approximately equal to depth
of chest.
Shoulders
: Strong and muscular without loading.
Shoulderblades wide, flat and held closely to chest wall and have a very
pronounced backward slope of front edge from bottom to top, forming almost a
right angle with upper arm.
Elbows:
Held straight and strong.
Pasterns
:
Upright.
HINDQUARTERS
: Hindlegs parallel when viewed from behind.
Thighs
: Muscular.
Stifle
: Joint well bent.
Second
thighs
: Well developed.
Hock
: Well angulated.
Metatarsus
:
With bone to foot short and strong.
FEET
: Round and compact with well arched toes.
GAIT
/ MOVEMENT : When moving appears well knit, smoothly covering ground with free,
easy strides and with a typical jaunty air.
When trotting, movement parallel, front and back, only converging towards
centre line at faster speeds, forelegs reaching out well and hindlegs moving
smoothly at hip, flexing well at stifle and hock, with great thrust.
SKIN
: Fitting dog tightly.
COAT
HAIR
: Short, flat, even and harsh to touch with a fine gloss.
A soft textured undercoat may be present in winter.
COLOUR
: For White, pure white coat. Skin
pigmentation and markings on head not to be penalised.
For Coloured, colour predominates ; all other things being equal,
brindle preferred. Black brindle,
red, fawn and tricolour acceptable. Tick markings in white coat undesirable.
Blue and liver highly undesirable.
SIZE
:
There are neither weight nor height limits, but there should be the impression
of maximum substance for size of dog consistent with quality and sex.
FAULTS : Any departure from the foregoing points should be
considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded
should be in exact proportion to its degree.
N.B.
: Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into
the scrotum.
BULL TERRIER
MINIATURE
The Standard of the Bull Terrier Miniature is the same as that of the
Bull Terrier with the exception of the following :
SIZE :
Height should not exceed 35,5 cms (14 ins.).
There should be an impression of substance to size of dog.
There is no weight limit. Dog
should at all times be balanced.