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Apron: Fringe of long
hair on chest.
Apple-headed: Rounded
skull.
Backtracking: Not following a trail, but
scenting back towards the start.
Barrelled: A barrelled dog has a
great
width of chest at the expense of depth.
Bat
Ears: The rather large erect and open
airs as seen in the French Bulldog.
B.B.: Best of breed.
Bay: Sound of a hound.
Beard: The profuse whiskering of
the Griffon Bruxellois as distinct from the whiskers of
the terriers.
Bird dog: One for hunting game birds.
Bitch: Female dog.
Bitchy: Judge's word for a male dog with
feminine conformation.
Bite: The way in which a dog's upper and
lower teeth meet.
Bloom: The glossiness of the coat.
Bone: A dog giving the appearance of
strength and spring in its limbs.
Br.: Breeder, i.e. the owner of the dog's
dam at the time of birth.
Bracelet: Fringes left around ankle in clip.
Breeching: Long hair
on thighs.
Breed: Group of
dogs showing same con-formation
and characteristics.
Breeder: Owner of dam
at time of birth.
Brindle: Grey or
tawny coat striped or
spotted with darker colours.
Brisket:
Front of chest between the fore-legs.
Brood Bitch: One
kept purely for the pur-pose
of breeding.
Brush: Thick bushy tail.
Butterfly nose: Mottled or partly black
and partly pink.
Button ears: Close to the head and
folded forward.
Call name: Usual or nickname as opposed to
registered full name.
Canine teeth: Fang-like teeth.
Cast: Circling hound to pick up the scent.
Cat feet: Well arched, round and compact.
C.C.:
Challenge Certificate. A Club award for the best exhibit
of its sex in breed. Awarded at
championship shows only.
Chops:
The pendulous and thick upper
lip common in the Bulldog.
Close
coupled: Short in couplings, as in
most terriers.
Close
lying: A coat in which the hair lies
close to the
body, as the Labrador
Retriever.
Cubby: Short in the
back like a cob horse.
Conformation: Size,
shape and appearance.
Couplings: That part of the body between
the shoulders and the hips.
Cow hocks: Hocks which
turn inwards.
Crest: Arch of upper
back of neck.
Crossbred: The result of a mating of two
dogs of different breeds.
Croup: The area adjacent to the sacrum and
immediately before the root of the tail.
Dam: Female parent.
Dappled: Irregular patches of dark colours on coat.
Dew claws: The extra claws and rudi- mentary toes
usually removed in early puppy hood.
Dewlap: Loose fold of skin under the throat.
Docking: Shortening the tail.
Dome: Rounded skull.
Down-faced: A downward curvature of the nose.
Drop ears: Ears which are pendant and hang flat and
close to the side of the cheeks.
Dudley nose: One coloured.
Flank: Loin and upper thigh.
Elbow: The joint at the top of the fore- arm.
Entry: The dog entered in a show.
Even bite: Upper and lower front teeth which meet
without overlapping.
Feathering: The long fringes of hair seen on the backs
of the legs of setters and spaniels.
Felted: A closely matted coat.
Fiddle front: Bowed forelegs.
Field trial: Competition for hunting dogs.
Flag: A bushy or fringed tail
Flews: Same as
chops.
Forearm: Foreleg
between elbow and knee.
Forearm: Foreleg
between elbow and knee.
Foreface: Front
of head between eyes and
nose.
Forelock:
The abundant tassel of hair
grown on the forehead and
falling for- ward over the eyes, as in the Sealyham
Terrier.
Grizzle: Greyish
or mixed black and grey.
Ground colour:
Background colour in parti-
coloured coat
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Handler: The person
who takes the dog
into the ring at a show, or a field trial.
Loin: The
part of the body between the ribs and the hips.
Long coupled: A dog long in couplings, as the
Dachshund.
Lumber:
Carrying too much flesh.
Maiden: A
bitch that has not had puppies.
Mask: A
dark coloured muzzle.
Merle:
Blue-grey with fine black markings.
Milk
teeth: A puppy's first set of teeth. Usually
replaced from four months on.
Mongrel:
Dog of mixed parentage.
Muzzle:
The part of the head combining the mouth and the
nose.
Obedience
trial: A test of recognised breeds
of dog in which they are
examined on set obedience exercises.
Occiput:
A protruding bone on top of the skull.
Oestrum:
A bitch gets her oestral periods about every six months.
The period of menstruation.
Otter
tail: A dog whose tail is thick at the root, and
then tapers away, as in the Labrador Retriever.
Overshot:
Upper jaw and teeth protrude beyond the lower.
Pad:
Cushion-like soles of a dog's feet.
Party-colour: Distinct markings of the coat in two or
more colours.
Pasterns: The
part of the leg below the knee.
Pedigree:
A list of the dog's ancestors for four or more
generations.
Pig jaws:
Badly overshot jaws.
Plume:
The long feathery hair of the tail, as in
Pekingese.
Hard mouth: A gun dog
which damages
game with too hard a bite.
Hare-foot:
A long narrow foot.
Harlequin: Coat of white
background with black patches.
Harsh:
Stiff, wiry, hard texture coat.
Haunch:
Hind quarter.
Heat:
When a bitch is on heat it is meant that she is
menstruating.
Height:
From the withers point of
shoulders to the ground.
Hock:
Joint on the back legs which juts out backwards.
Import:
A dog imported into Australia from its country
of birth.
In-breeding: The mating of dogs that are closely
related.
In
season: A bitch during the periods (nor- mally
twice a year) when she can be mated.
In whelp:
Pregnant.
Kennels:
Home or breeding establishment for dogs
belonging to one person.
Knee: The
joint on the front leg above the pastern.
Knuckled
over: Front legs bent forward at the knees.
Leather:
The skin of the external ear.
Leggy: Too
high in the leg.
Line
breeding: The mating of related dogs.
Lippy:
When the lips overhang more than is correct.
Litter:
All the puppies produced at one birth.
Liver: Dark reddish-brown colour.
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Loin: The part of the body between the
ribs and the hips. Long coupled: A
dog long in couplings, as the Dachshund.
Lumber: Carrying
too much flesh.
Maiden: A bitch
that has not had puppies.
Mask: A dark
coloured muzzle.
Merle: Blue-grey
with fine black markings.
Milk teeth: A puppy's first set of
teeth.
Usually replaced from four months on.
Mongrel: Dog of
mixed parentage.
Muzzle: The part of the head combining
the mouth and the nose.
Obedience trial: A
test of recognised
breeds of dog in
which they are
examined on set obedience exercises.
Occiput: A protruding bone on top of the
skull.
Oestrum: A bitch gets her oestral
periods about every six months.
The period of menstruation.
Otter tail: A dog whose tail is thick at
the root, and then tapers away, as
in the Labrador Retriever.
Overshot: Upper jaw and teeth protrude
beyond the lower.
Pad: Cushion-like
soles of a dog's feet.
Party-colour:
Distinct markings of the coat in two
or more colours.
Pasterns: The part of the leg below the
knee.
Pedigree: A list of the dog's ancestors
for our for more generations.
Prefix: A prefix is usually attached to
a
dog's name in order to identify him
with a particular breeder or kennels.
Prick ears: Ears
that stand erect.
Proven: A dog or bitch which has proved
capable of siring or bearing puppies.
Purebred: Ancestors of one
breed for
several generations.
Register:
Where dog's birth and parentage,
etc., are recorded
with the governing canine
authority.
Ruff:
Long, thick hair around the neck
and shoulders.
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Sable:
Brown colour with black shadings.
Saddle: A black
marking over the top of
the back and upper
flanks.
econd
thigh: The part of the hind leg
between hock and stifle.
Septum: The division between the nostrils.
Short
coupled: Short of body.
Shoulders: The point at which the height
of the dog is measured, about the top
of the shoulder blades.
Sire:
The male parent of a
litter of
puppies.
Snipey: Too narrow or too sharply pointed
muzzle.
Soft-mouthed: Gun dogs able to pick up
and retrieve game without damaging it.
Spay:
To de-sex a bitch by removal of the
ovaries.
Specialty show: Run by a club devoted to
one breed only.
Stifle: The
joint in the hind leg of the
dog, which is equivalent to the knejoint
in man.
Stop:
The depression between the eyes.
Stud
dog: A male dog kept for breeding
purposes.
Throaty: A dog with an excess of loose
skin about the tliroat.
Ticking: Splashes of dark colour in a
white coat.
Training collar: Check or choke collar.
Trousers: Long feathering on the hind
legs.
Tuck-up: The raising line from the belly
up under the hindquarters.
Typey:
True to type of breed.
T.D.:
Abbreviation for tracking dog.
Undercoat: Soft woolly coat beneath the
outer coat.
Utility dog (U.D.): Highest of the three
degrees obtainable for obedience trials.
Undershot: Lower teeth projecting beyond
the upper teeth.
U.D.T.: Combined title for a dog that
has won Utility Dog and Tracking titles.
Wall
eye: A blue eye, or blue with brown
or black in the iris.
Weedy: Too
lightly formed, especially
around ribs.
Well let down: A
marked degree of angu-
lation of
hock and stifle joints.
Well sprung: Well formed, particularly
in
the development of
the chest, and "the
spring of the ribs.
Wheaten: Wheat-coloured.
Whelp:
To give birth to puppies.
Withers: The
point where the neck joins
the body.
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