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History
The
German spitz which go down from the dog of the peat bogs of the age of the stone
" Canis familiaris palustris Rüthimeyer " and of the " dogs of the lake cities "
posterior are the oldest race of the Central Europe. Many other races go down
from there. In certain nonGerman-speaking areas, the spitz wolf carries the name
of “Keeshond”, and dwarf Spitz that of “Pomeranian” (of Poméranie).
Character/Movement
German
Spitz always attentive, sharp and is extraordinarily attached to its Master. It
is very receptive and easy to educate. Its mistrust towards the unknown ones and
the absence of any instinct of hunting make of him an ideal guard for the house
downtown or the farm. It is neither timorous nor aggressive. Weather resistance,
robustness and longevity are other qualities which distinguish it.
Physics
Spitz
allure by the beauty of their fur rectified by an abundant undercoat. The neck
equipped with an opulent flange in the shape of mane and the bulky tail related
proudly to the back strike particularly. Its head with the sharp eyes pointing
out that of the fox and its small brought closer ears pointed confer on Spitz
its characteristic impertinent aspect.
Significant proportions:
The relationship between the height with the garrot and the length of the corp
of the dog is from 1 to 1.
Head, cranial area:
Of average size, the cranium of Spitz seen of top, is broadest in its posterior
part and is being reduced in the shape of corner to the point of the nose.
Stop:
Moderately with good marked, never abrupt.
Facial area
Truffle:
Small and round, it is of black color pure, except at maroon Spitz with dress
where it is of color brown-dark.
Muzzle:
It is harmoniously proportioned compared to cranium; it is not too long. (At
Spitz-loup/Keeshond, Large Spitz and average Spitz, the length report/ratio of
the muzzle/length of cranium is approximately of 2/3, at small Spitz and dwarf
Spitz/Poméranien approximately 2/4)
Lips:
The lips are not recovered. They are well tended and do not make a fold with
commissure. They are entirely black at Spitz of all the varieties of color,
except in the dogs of dress chestnut where they are of color brown dark.
Jaws/teeth:
Of a normal development, the jaws present one articulated out of scissors
complete formed of 42 teeth according to the dental formula of the dog. The
posterior face of the upper incisors recovers in close contact the former face
of lower, the teeth being established with the square compared to the jaws.
At small Spitz and dwarf Spitz/Poméranien, the absence of a restricted number of
premolars is tolerated. One articulated out of grip is tolerated at all Spitz.
Cheeks:
The cheeks are delicately round without being projecting.
Eyes:
Of average size, of slightly lengthened form and in a little oblique position,
the eyes are of dark color. The eyelids are pigmented in black in all the
varieties of color, except at maroon Spitz with dress where they are of color
brown dark.
Ears:
The small ears of Spitz are attached high, relatively close relations one of the
other, triangular and pointed; they are always carried drawn up with a quite
rigid point.
Neck:
Of the average, neck, broad length with insertion between the shoulders, has a
slightly bent nape of the neck. Without pennon, it is covered with a flange in
the shape of mane.
Body
Higher line:
It starts with the point of the ears carried right and drawn up well and is
prolonged after a soft curve in the short and horizontal back. The bulky tail
folded back on the back of which it covers a part completes the silhouette.
Garrot/Back:
The garrot, left well, is melted gradually in the back which is as short as
possible, right and solid.
Kidney:
Short, broad and powerful.
Croup:
The croup broad, short and is not swallowed.
Chest:
The chest is well descended and bent; the area sternale is well developed.
Line of the lower part:
The rib cage is developed as far as possible backwards; the belly is only
moderately raised.
Tail:
Attached and average length high, the tail, very bulky, is drawn up as of its
root, is folded back forwards and is rolled on the back, on which it is pressed
firmly. A double loop at the end of the tail is accepted.
Forelimbs
General information:
They are right and the front is rather broad.
Shoulders:
The scapula is long and oblique backwards. The arm, an about identical length,
form with the scapula an angle of approximately 90°.L' shoulder quite muscular
and is firmly attached to the rib cage.
Elbows:
The articulation of the elbow is solid, well against the thorax and round
neither in inside nor outwards.
Front armlever:
With average length, vigorous compared to trunk, perfectly right, its posterior
face is well furnished with fringes.
Metacarpus:
The metacarpus, solid and average length, forms with the front armlever an angle
of approximately 20° compared to the vertical.
Feet:
The former feet are as patits as possible, rounds, with the tight fingers (feet
of cat) and cambered well. The plantar nails and bearings are black in all the
varieties of color, except at maroon Spitz with dress, where they are of brown
color.
Rear limbs
General information:
The rear limbs are very muscular and carry to the bulge of the abundant
breeches. The posterior ones are right and parrallèles.
Thigh and leg:
The thigh and the leg are roughly of the same length.
Knee (grasset):
The articulation of the grasset only is moderately angled; it is solid and in
the movement, is off-set neither towards the interior nor towards outside.
Métatarse:
Of average length, the métatarse, very robust, is perpendicular on the ground.
Posterior feet:
The posterior feet are as small as possible, rounds, with the fingers tightened
well and cambered (feet of cat); the bearings are resistant. The color of the
nails and the bearings is as dark as possible.
Paces:
By the effect of a good impulse the movement of German Spitz is running and
elastic; the members are driven right in front.
Skin:
The skin, quite adherent with the body, does not form any fold.
Wrap:
Nature of the hair
German Spitz has a double hair: a hair of cover long, right and isolated and a
short thick and padded undercoat. The head, the ears, the former faces of the
forelimbs and posterior and the feet have a short and dense hair (velvety); the
remainder of the body has a long and abundant hair. Neither undulated, neither
buckled, nor hirsute, it forms line on the back. The neck and the shoulders are
covered with abundant a mane. The posterior faces of the forelimbs are well
furnished with fringes, the rear limbs present croup to the bulge opulent
breeches and the tail is bulky.
Color of the hair:
A) Spitz-loup/Keeshond A: Gray-wolf (gray-cloud).
B) Large Spitz:
Black, brown, white.
C) Average Spitz:
Black, brown, white, orange, gray-wolf (gray-cloud) and other colors.
D) Small Spitz:
Black, brown, white, orange, gray-wolf (gray-cloud) and other colors.
E) Dwarf Spitz/Poméranien: Black, brown, white, orange, gray-wolf (gray-cloud)
and other colors.
Black Spitz:
For the dress of black Spitz, the undercoat and the skin owe beings also of dark
color. On the surface, the color is of a black enamelled without trace of white
and unspecified mark.
Maroon Spitz:
The dress of maroon Spitz must be maroon dark also distributed and uniform.
White Spitz:
The dress must be of a pure white, without shade no, in particular in the
nuances jaunâtrescomme one rather often meets it on the soreilles.
Orange Spitz:
The dress of orange Spitz must be also distributed and uniform in an average
nuance.
Spitz gray-wolf (gray-cloud) /Keeshond:
The gray-wolf is a carbonized silver plated gray (with black at the end of the
hairs). The muzzle and the ears are dark. Around the eyes there is a drawing in
“branch of glasses " clearly marked, formed of a black line delicately drawn
going in skew of the external angle of the eye at the lower point of fastener of
the ear, associated with clear hatchings and ranges shades forming of the short
and expressive eyebrows. The mane and the area of the shoulders are clearer. The
forelimbs and posterior are of a gray silver plated without black spots below
the elbows and the knees, with share of small black spots lengthened in blow of
pencil on the fingers (pencilling). The point of the tail is black. The lower
face of the tail and the breeches are of a clearly silver plated gray.
Spitz of other colors:
Under this denomination the dresses of all the other colors appear: cream,
cream-sable, orange-sable, black and fire, shandy. The mixed dogs must have a
white bottom of dress and the spots of color black, brown, gray or orange must
be distributed on all the body
Cut and weight:
A) Spitz-loup/Keeshond 49cm+/-6cm A,
B) Large Spitz 46cm+/-4cm,
C) Average Spitz 34cm+/-4cm,
D) Small Spitz 26cm+/-3cm,
E) Dwarf Spitz/Pomeraniens 20cm+/-2cm.
The subjects below 18cm are not required.
Defects
Any variation compared to what precedes must be regarded as a defect which will
be penalized according to its gravity.
serious defects:
* Constructional defects.
* Head too punt, head in the marked apple shape.
* Truffle, eyelids and lips of color flesh (miser).
* Absence of teeth at Spitz-loup/Keeshond, Large Spitz and Spitz means.
* Too large eyes or too prominent lights, eyes.
* Defective paces.
* Absence of the drawing characteristic of the face at Spitz-loup/Keeshond.
Eliminatory defects:
* Persistence of the fontanelle one.
* Higher or lower prognatism.
* Entropion or ectropion.
* Broken ear.
* Small white spots well defined in all the varieties of size.
N.B.: The males must have two testicles of normal aspect completion descended in
the scrotum.
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