FCI-Standard No 134 / 07. 08. 1998 / GB

TRANSLATION : Mrs. Peggy Davis

ORIGIN : France.

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 06.05.1988.

UTILIZATION : Pointing dog.

CLASSIFICATION F.C.I. : Group 7 Pointing Dogs. Section 1.1 Continental Pointing Dogs, type « Braque ». With working trial.

The small size French Pointing Dogs « Pyrenean type » show, while keeping all proportions, with more reduced dimensions and lighter shapes, the same general characteristics as those of the « Gascogne type ». They only differ on the following points :

GENERAL APPEARANCE

Rustic dog, not heavy but sufficiently muscled. Skin tighter than that of the Gascogne type.

HEAD

FACIAL REGION :

Nose : Chestnut-brown in colour, nostrils well opened.
Lips : The lips are less pendent or less convex than in the Gascogne type.
Leathers : Set on above eye line, barely folded. The tips of the leathers must end at 2 cm from the nose leather.

NECK

Slight or no dewlap.

BODY

Belly : Belly less let down than in the Gascogne type.

TAIL

Fine; can be docked or naturally short.

LIMBS

FOREQUARTERS : They are lighter than in the Gascogne type.
Shoulders : Muscular and moderately sloping.

HINDQUARTERS :

Feet : Tight.

COAT

HAIR : Finer and shorter than that of the Gascogne Type.

SIZE

Male: 47 - 58 cm. Female : 47 - 56 cm.
The size of 50 to 55 cm is the one to aim for which covers the most numerous utilizations.

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.

• Dog too heavy or hyperlight.


• Lips too droopy or too light.


• Round eyes caused by the exaggeration of the zygomatic and superciliary arches.


• Leathers set at eye level, too long (touching the nose).


• Belly too tucked up (whippety).


• Splayed feet.

ELIMINATING FAULTS

• Aggresive or overly shy.


• Split nose, pronounced depigmentation of the nose leather.


• Entropion, ectropion, pink spots at the base of the eyelids.


• No tail (anury).


• Syndactyly (toes grown together), surplus toes, absence of toes.

Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.

N.B. : Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.