General Appearance
Compact, short coupled dog, well knit in frame.
Exhibiting great intelligence in expression; activity and buoyancy in deportment.
Characteristics
Sound, vivacious and dainty.
Temperament
Extrovert, lively and intelligent.
Head and Skull
Head and nose foxy in outline, skull slightly
flat, large in proportion to muzzle which finishes finely and free from
lippiness. Nose black in white, orange and shaded sable dogs; brown in
chocolate tipped sable dogs, but in other colours may be 'self-coloured',
never parti-coloured or flesh.
Eyes
Medium size, slightly oval, not full, not set
too wide apart; bright, dark and showing great intelligence. In white,
orange, shaded sable and cream dogs, rims black..
Ears
Small, not set too wide apart, not too low down,
but carried perfectly erect.
Mouth
Jaws strong, with a perfect regular and complete
scissor bite, i.e. the upper teeth closely overlapping the lower teeth
and set square to the jaws.
Neck
Rather short and well set into shoulders.
Forequarters
Shoulders clean and well laid back. Fine boned
legs, perfectly straight, or medium length in due proportion to size of
dog.
Body
Back short, body compact, well ribbed up, barrel
well rounded. Chest fairly deep, not too wide but in proportion to size
of dog.
Hindquarters
Fine boned, legs neither cow-hocked nor wide
behind; medium angulation.
Feet
Small, compact and cat-like.
Tail
Characteristic of breed - high set, turned over
back and carried flat and straight, profusely covered with long, harsh,
spreading hair.
Gait - Movement
Free moving, brisk and buoyant.
Coat
Two coats, an under coat and an outer coat.
Former soft, fluffy, the latter long, perfectly straight, harsh in texture
and covering whole of body; very abundant round neck and fore part of shoulders.
Forequarters well feathered, thighs and hindlegs well feathered to hocks.
Colours
All colours permissible, but free from black
or white shadings. Whole colours are: White, black, brown, light, or dark,
blue as pale as possible. Orange which should be self-coloured and as bright
as possible. Beaver. Cream dogs should have black noses and black eye rims
round eyes. Whites must be quite free from lemon or any other colour. A
few white hairs, in any of the self-coloured dogs permissible but undesirable.
Dogs (other than white) with white or tan markings highly undesirable and
not considered whole-coloured specimens. In parti-coloured dogs, colours
evenly distributed in body in patches; a dog with white or tan feet or
chest not a parti-coloured dog. Shaded sable should be shaded throughout
with three or more colours, the hair to be as uniformly shaded as possible
and with no patches of self colour. In mixed classes, where whole coloured
and parti-coloured Pomeranians compete together, the preference should,
if all other points they are equal, be given to whole-coloured specimens..
Size
Ideal weight: Dogs 1.8 - 2 kgs.
Bitches 2 - 2.5 kgs.
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.
Note
Male animals should have two apparently normal
testicles fully descended into the scrotum.
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