PASTOR BELGA MALINOIS BLACK FREE

PASTOR BELGA MALINOIS BLACK FREE

Gait/Movement: Lively and free movement at all gaits the Belgian Shepherd is a good galloper but its normal gaits are the walk and especially the trot limbs move parallel to the median plane of the body. Feet: May be light oval toes arched and well closed pads thick and springy nails dark and strong. Back pastern (metatarsus): Solid and short dewclaws not desirable. Hock: Close to the ground, broad and muscled, moderate angulation. Lower Thigh: Medium length, broad and muscled. Stifle: Approximately on the plumb line from the hip normal stifle angulation. Upper thigh: Medium length, broad and strongly muscled. Hindquarters: Powerful, but not heavy in profile hindlegs are upright and seen from behind perfectly parallel. Feet: Round, cat feet toes arched and well closed pads thick and springy nails dark and strong. Front Pastern (metacarpus): Strong and short, as perpendicular to the ground as possible or only very slightly sloping forward. Elbow: Firm, neither turning out nor tied in. Upper Arm: Long and sufficiently oblique. Shoulder: Shoulder blade long and oblique, well attached, forming a sufficient angle with the humerus, ideally measuring 110-115 degrees. Forequarters: Bone solid but not heavy muscle dry and strong front legs upright from all sides and perfectly parallel when seen from the front. Tail: Well set on, strong at the base, of medium length, reaching at least to hock, but preferably further at rest carried down, with tip curved backwards at level of hock more raised when moving, although without passing the horizontal, the curve towards the tip becoming more accentuated, without ever at any time forming a hook or deviation. Underline: Begins below the chest and rises gently in a harmonious curve towards the belly, which is neither drooping nor tucked up, but slightly raised and moderately developed.

Chest: Little broad, but well let down upper part of ribs arched seen from the front forechest little broad, but without being narrow. Croup: Well-muscled only very slightly sloping sufficiently broad but not excessively so. Loins: Solid, short, sufficiently broad, well-muscled. Topline: Upper line of back and loins is straight. Body: Powerful without being heavy length from point of shoulder to point of buttock approximately equal to height at withers. Neck: Well standing out, slightly elongated, rather upright, well-muscled, broadening gradually towards the shoulders, without dewlap, nape slightly arched. Ears: Rather small, set high, distinctly triangular appearance, well-rounded outer ear, pointed tips, stiff, carried upright and vertical when dog is alert. Eyes: Medium size, neither protruding nor sunken, slightly almond-shaped, obliquely set, brownish color, preferably dark black rimmed eyelids direct, lively, intelligent and enquiring look. Cheeks: dry and quite flat, although muscled. Jaws/teeth: Strong, white teeth, regularly and strongly set in well-developed jaws. Lips: Thin, tight and strongly pigmented.

Muzzle: Medium length and well chiselled under the eyes narrowing gradually toward the nose, like an elongated wedge bridge of the nose straight and parallel to the continuation of the topline of the forehead mouth well split, which means that when the mouth is open the commissures of the lips are pulled right back, the jaws being well apart.

Cranial Region: Of medium width, in proportion with the length of the head, with a forehead flat rather than round, frontal groove not very pronounced in profile, parallel to imaginary line extending muzzle line occipital crest little developed brow ridges and zygomatic arches not prominent. Skull and muzzle are roughly equal in length, with at the most a very slight bias in favour of the muzzle which puts the finishing touch to the whole head. Head: Carried high, long without exaggeration, rectilinear, well chiselled and dry.

Pastor belga malinois black