The Boston Terrier and All About It eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 130 pages of information about The Boston Terrier and All About It.

The Boston Terrier and All About It eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 130 pages of information about The Boston Terrier and All About It.
Head faults:  Skull “domed” or inclined; furrowed by a medial line; skull too long for breadth, or vice versa; stop too shallow; brow and skull too slanting.  Eyes small or sunken; too prominent; light color; showing too much white or haw.  Muzzle wedge shaped or lacking depth; down faced; too much cut out below the eyes; pinched nostrils; protruding teeth; weak lower jaw; showing “turn up.”  Poorly carried ears or out of proportion.

   3 Neck:  Of fair length, 5 neck:  Of fair length,
      slightly arched and without throatiness and
      carrying the head slightly arched.
      gracefully; setting
      neatly into shoulders.

      Neck faults:  Ewe-necked;
      throatiness; short and
      thick.

  15 Body:  Deep with good 15 body:  Deep and broad of
      width of chest; chest, well ribbed up.
      shoulders sloping; back Back short, not roached.
      short; ribs deep and Loins and quarters strong.
      well sprung, carried
      well back of loins;
      loins short and
      muscular; rump curving
      slightly to set-on of
      tail.  Flank slightly cut
      up.  The body should
      appear short, but not
      chunky.

Body faults:  Flat sides; narrow chest; long or slack loins; roach back; sway back; too much cut up in flank.
4  Elbows:  Standing             2  elbows:  Standing neither
neither in nor out.             in nor out.

   5 FORELEGS:  Set moderately 4 forelegs:  Wide apart,
      wide apart and on a line straight and well
      with the points of the muscled.
      shoulders; straight in
      bone and well muscled;
      pasterns short and
      strong.

5 HINDLEGS:  Set true; bent 4 hindlegs:  Straight,
at stifles; short from quite long from stifle
hocks to feet; hocks to hock (which should
turning neither in nor turn neither in nor
out; thighs strong and out), short and straight
well muscled. from hock to pasterns. 
Thighs well muscled. 
Hocks not too prominent.

5  Feet:  Round, small and       2  feet:  Small, nearly
compact, and turned             round, and turned
neither in nor out; toes        neither in nor out.  Toes
well arched.                    compact and arched.
Leg and feet faults:  Loose shoulders or elbows; hind legs too straight at stifles; hocks too prominent; long or weak pasterns; splay feet.

   5 Tail:  Set-on low; short, 10 tail:  Set-on low, short,
      fine and tapering; fine and tapering,

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