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GSD Standard changed to incorporate longcoats
Created: 27/05/2015
THE GERMAN Shepherd Dog Standard has been altered to create two separate
varieties of coat.
The KC’s General Committee has approved the addition of words covering
long-coated dogs, which are underlined here: ‘Outer coat consisting of
straight, hard, close-lying hair as dense as possible; thick undercoat. Hair on
head, ears, front of legs, paws and toes short; on neck longer and thicker, in
some males forming slight ruff. Hair longer on back of legs as far down as
pasterns and hocks, forming fairly thick trousers on hindquarters. Mole-type
coats are undesirable.
‘In long coats, outer coat longer, not always straight and frequently not
lying close and flat to the body. Thick undercoat. Coat distinctly longer
inside and behind the ears, forming moderate tufts.
‘Longer hair on the back of the forelegs through to the loins and dense
feathering on the hind legs. Tail bushy with light feathering underneath’.
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