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DIRECTIVES AND COMMENTS OF THE CLUB OF THE
GOS D´ATURA CATALÀ TO THE OFFICIAL STANDARD OF THE BREED
Translation: Alberto Toledano (Valdegoscan)
The Club of the Gos d´Atura Català has published in its magazine A L´AGUAI´T
23/00 of the spring of 2000 what next we translate and that we considered
for all the lovers of the Gos d´Atura Català very useful.
However,
being completely in agreement with most of the directives and comments to
the Standard, we allowed ourselves in our humble opinion to differ with
some of them (our discrepancies and commentaries are indicated in red
colour).
The
Club of the Gos d´Atura Català of Spain, at sight of the present state
of the Breed and the great disparity in the judgments that continuously
come producing, in an attempt to clarify the different tendencies that
have been developed in the lines of the Breed in these last years and, to
define the fundamental guidelines at the time of judging the dogs, has
considered opportune to do the following comments to the Standard,
emphasizing so much the desirable virtues as the aspects to correct, with
the objective that these directives are a practical extension of the
Standard and a unification of criteria at the time of judging the Breed.
By
agreement of all Members of the Board of Director of the Club the three
basic points that we have to comment are the following:
CHARACTER, FUNTIONALITY AND TYPE.
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Character. Value the vividness
and fixed and kind expression of the Breed. Penalize the
inexpressiveness. The Gos d´Atura Català can be distrusted, which is
not had to confuse with timid or unbalanced. He does not have to bite.
Facing the judgments in Ring, it is necessary to consider that our
Breed genetically is distrusted, reason why the Judges do not have to
settle down direct bonding and of abrupt form, but slowly and with
smooth gesture with the dog. Nevertheless, if coming this way the dog
he does not let himself touch and one is aggressive, he must be
disqualified, as much in puppy class as in young or opened class. It
is very important that the dog is always under the control of its
owner.
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Bitten and premolars. Totally eliminatory
the inferior or superior prognathism. The bite in clamp is tolerated,
as well as a superior tooth of distance backwards. The lack of one
premolar is allowed, not granting the "Excellent" from the
lack of two. It is not necessary to give importance to the lack of one
premolar, considering defect serious if they are two.
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Ears. They have to be triangular and flexible,
movable, avoiding excessively wide the Pointer type. Value the fine
and movable of insertion the rather high ones, penalizing wide and of
insertion the excessively low ones.
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Body.
Penalize
the excessively long trunks, the convexes backs, and low croups, as
well as in bitches the saddled backs. Why only
in bitches? We have seen males in Rings with saddled backs that they
have to be also penalized.
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Chest.
It
has to be wide and well developed, proportioned to the body and size
of the dog. Penalize the straits chests. The rib must be bent, non
neither flat nor barrelled. Our Gos d´Atura
that most of them does not work and takes a quite comfortable life, at
certain moments has passed periods of true thinness and, that why it
is important to differentiate a strait chest from a
thin dog.
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Tail.
Avoid
the tails rolled on the back (Afghan type), considering also those
sometimes are accompanied by convexes backs. Penalize those whose at
the end is transformed into spiral or those that have lateral
deviations. If the end gets to touch the back or the croup is an
eliminatory defect. Being totally in agreement with
the indicated, we would like to add that we have seen many tails badly
inserted and seem rags hanging. In movement the bearing of the tail
must be glad and to have, is worth the redundancy, movement.
Unfortunately we have seen many dogs that in movement take the tail
between the legs and it would have to be considering in the judgments.
It can denote or an important timidity that it must be avoided, or a
constitution or insertion defect that also would have to be consider
at the time of judging the dogs.
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Seriousnesses and angulations.
Front
quarters: Plumbed well, watching specially that the feet are not
opened towards outside. Back quarters: Avoid the later ones staked, or
that joins hocks excessively, opening feet, type hock of cow.
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Spurs. They have to be double, being perfectly
valid the existence of some without bone. They have to be double and
with membranes, not admitting simple, not granting importance to him
to the existence of some without bone, having to predominate the
global concept of the dog. We agree in which
there is to predominate the global concept of the dog. Although, we do
not agree absolutely for the fact that the spurs could be admitted
without bone. This is a genetic characteristic of our Breed that we
have to conserve like a treasure. It is obvious and evident that if we
make litters with males and bitches without bones in the spurs, in
very few generations we will finish losing this characteristic.
Luckily this is a dominant genetic characteristic and we have seen a
litter between an extraordinary bitch, with a spur without bone, with
a male with perfect spurs, has given all their puppies with perfect
spurs. For that reason we do not understand this directive of the Club
and, we showed for that reason ours deeper discrepancy. The Standard
says literally: “Identical to front feet, but with low set double
bony dewclaws (spurs). These dewclaws (spurs) are joined together and
joined to the first toe of the foot by a membrane.” It continues saying the Standard in its section of serious
defects: "Lack of
bone in the dewclaws (spurs) or single dewclaw (spur)." Why is made this comment by the Club that to neophytes confuses?
It is that it is tried to modify the Standard in this section? Our
Breed is as it is, we have to preserve this treasure so as we have
inherited it.
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Hair.
It has to be rough and slightly undulated, with sub hair. Avoid the
curly or excessively stirred up hair. Hairy, but without excesses, not
being it until the point that the excessive amount of hair stumps the
characteristics of the dogs. The quality of the hair is important.
Penalize the dogs of which the hair covers the eyes. You have to
consider that in our Breed has moments of dumb, reason why we must pay
attention more to the texture and quality of the hair that in its
length. Attention to the excessively straight hair: Our Race has sub
hair and sometimes its absence is expressed this way.
We allowed ourselves to congratulate to the Club by this comment
since it is often being allowed, dogs with great amount of hair and
with bad quality.
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Colour and pigmentation. In equal
conditions make your preference to the intense colours. The clear
tones always have to go accompanied with some dark hair in body, ears
and tail, being penalizeable their absence. Harness the intense
colours accompanied with good pigmentation in nose and lips. Pay
attention to that the edge of the flickers is pigmented in black, and
that as much nose as the lips is also of this colour. Special control
in the grey or brown dogs, that often has low pigmentation of mucous. Please
not confuse colour with pigmentation. They are had been awarding black
dogs in damage of other extraordinary dogs, simply because they were
of clear colours.
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Size. For some years a
noticeable difference of stature between the males and the females has
been observed who obtain the first positions in shows. It would have
to look for that the dogs tended to average statures within the rank
of the Standard. Being in agreement with which
what one is due to look for it is the average statures that he marks
the Standard, in our opinion a male of a female is due to identify
clearly of distant spot.
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Confirmations. The dog who present
an excessively fine puppy hair in the moment to be confirmed at the
age of a year, it would have to recommend to his owner a new
presentation after half year, to verify that this abnormal quality of
hair is not permanent what would constitute a defect
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Control of displasia of hip. The Club recommends
radiographing the dogs destined to the reproduction. It is tried to
propose to the R.S.C.E. that, in a term of two or three years, the dog
that has the “excellent” in the Monographic must present its x-ray
of control of displasia of hip. It is important to eradicate the
displasia of hip of our Breed, that why we congratulated to the Club by this initiative, hoping takes
to the practice to the greater brevity.
In addition to this, we suggested that in the moment of the
Confirmation of the Dog, by a Specialist Judge, the owner of the Dog
must present the Veterinary certificate as HD free. With this, we
avoid that one dog with displasie could have puppies. Not only the
dogs who are in competition to be Spain Champion.
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