ARBA announces its new Senior Master Championship today in Cheltenham.
Maryland. In order to earn this championship your dog must already be a Master
Champion and your dog
must earn four group ones over the year..
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American Rare
Breed Association
FCI-Standard N° 306 / 19.08.1996 / GB
WEST SIBERIAN LAIKA
(Zapadno-Sibirskaïa Laïka)
TRANSLATION : Mrs. C. Seidler.
ORIGIN : Russia.
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD :
03.06.1980.
UTILIZATION : Polyvalent hunting dog.
CLASSIFICATION F.C.I. : Group 5 Spitz and primitive
types.
Section 2 Nordic hunting dogs. With working trial.
BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY : This breed was established
by crossing the closely related Chanteisker and
Mansijaker strains of Laiki with the dogs of the Russian
hunters of the Northern Ural and Western Siberia. Apart
from the native stock in the areas where hunting is
practised, this breed is widely distributed in the
middle zone of Russia, where there is a big number of
these dogs producted at large breeding establishments.
In quite a few hunting areas there are special kennels
for the breeding of West Siberian Laiki.
GENERAL APPEARANCE : Medium size; strong and clean
constitution; bone structure well developed but neither
massive or nor coarse; muscles strong and well developed.
IMPORTANT PROPORTIONS : Index of format (length of the
body x 100 : height at withers) in dogs 103-107, in
bitches 104-108.
BEHAVIOUR AND TEMPERAMENT : Balanced, lively.
HEAD : Not large.
CRANIAL REGION :
Skull : Similar in shape to an equilateral triangle.
Stop : Transition from skull to muzzle gradual, barely
noticeable.
FACIAL REGION :
Muzzle : Long and pointed. Lips dry, close fitting.
Jaw/Teeth : White, large; scissor bite.
Eyes : Oval, slanting, dark in colour.
Ears : Pricked, set on high, pointed.
NECK : Muscular, dry.
BODY :
Withers : Very pronounced.
Back : Strong, straight.
Loins : Short, supple.
Croup : Broad, muscular, slightly sloping.
Chest : Well developed.
Belly : Slightly tucked up.
TAIL : Strong curl; carried over back or buttocks.
LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS : Legs long; muscular, slanting shoulders;
pastern not long, slightly inclined.
HINDQUARTERS : Muscular, strong, with well defined
angulations of hocks. Dewclaws should be removed.
FEET : Oval, arched with tight toes.
GAIT/MOVEMENT : Typical movement : short trot,
alternating with gallop.
SKIN : Thick, without any folds.
COAT
HAIR : Guard hairs of outercoat hard, well developed
undercoat. Top coat straight and coarse. Thanks to the
well developed dense undercoat, it is somewhat “stand
off” and appears profuse. On head, ears and front side
of the limbs, the coat is short; on withers, neck,
shoulders and rear side of the limbs, the hair is
longer; it forms a beard on the cheek-bones, a collar on
the neck and slight feathering on rear of limbs.
COLOUR : White, pepper and salt, red and grey in all
shades; black colour permitted, also particolours and
with patches of the same colours.
SIZE :
Height at the withers : Dogs 54 to 60 cm.
Bitches
52 to 58 cm.
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.
ELIMINATING FAULTS :
Aggressive or overly shy.
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.
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