Headprofile and proportion to the body
Perfect volume and shape of head
Head too small and not round
Skull too flat in nosebone
Skull and muzzle width
Perfect round skull from all sides
excellent width between the eyes
Spoonshape and well furred ears
Perfect spoonshape ears nicely carried together
Thin and weak ears very poorly carried backwards Such ears faulded together have poor fur and do look pink
Ears should also be judged from the backside
spoonshape and open with good substance they should look like this.
Vertical earcarriage without showing light in between
Perfect sideview ears perfect carried erect
From the frontview the ears should not show any daylight in between.
These ears are way too course and almost carried like a lop.
Earsubstance and length in proportion to the body
Perfect short and open ear well in proportion to the body (Ears between 5.0 & 5.5 cm "fit" best)
Ears thin and weak and too long
Ears too heavy and too round at the tops
Size and boldness of the eyes
Perfect bold eye right in the middle of the skull
Perfect bold eye right in the middle of the skull
Such small eye does not look vital at all
Chestwidth
Perfect wide chest
Narrow chests puts the frontfeet together
Narrow chests puts the frontfeet together
Shoulderdepth and headposition
Perfect depth of body (chest)
with head placed "on" the chest
A good shoulderdepth with the headposition backwards:a "stargazer" (ears not vertical)
A long neckregion puts the head in front of the body; not ON the chest....
Frontleg position
Perfect position under "earline"
Perfect position under "earline"
A long neck puts the frontlegs too far backwards
Frontlegstability-length and use
Perfect short and strong frontlegs
with correct use of frontfeet
Not used front legs with very weak frontfeet:
a very common failure
Too long front legs put the head too high
Backlinelength and shape
The perfect dwarf: short, cobby with excellent rearend-profile and headposition
A long, flat and weak backline
Too long (horizontal)
in the shouldersection to be called cobby
Rearlegs wide and parallel
Perfect parallel rear legs
Exorotation of rearlegs
(=cawhawks)
Cawhawks
Backend-profile
Ideal round curve
Too flat over the rear end