Old English Sheepdog

Old English Sheepdog is a British one of the oldest shepherd kinds. In ancient times the rural parts of the West of England in order to drive livestock to the pastures, farmers keep cattle out of this astute, Shepherd kinds. This dog's ancestors include Bearded Collie and various European shepherd of origin. The 19th century, Old English Sheepdog is widely use in agricultural areas. 1873, for the first time in the UK public appearance at the show.

【Character】

Gentle character smart, bold and smart easy-going friendly and do not like to grow up to run around bounce, but the naughty child. Loyalty to the people-friendly. Sheep with excellent leadership qualifications, easy to train, to high, suitable for popular children's affection. Degree of hair thick the highest ranking of all the dog classes. So Long Hair is easy to knot dirty. The owner should pay attention to doing a sufficiently good hair day to day care. Because it is large dogs, not suitable for breeding in the house all day tied.

【Size】

Height: 46 ~ 65cm

Weight: 26 ~ 38kg

【Head】

Eyes: brown, blue or one eye brown, one blue eye. If it is brown, darker the better; if it is blue, gray, green or gray eyes are typical of ring.

Ears: Medium size, flat against the side of the head.

Head: large and preferably square and give the brain enough space (to provide higher intelligence). The above part of the eye (eye socket above) moderately arched. The whole head was covered with thick hair. Only the department is very clear.

Jaw: comparison fairly long, strong, square and has been cut short.

Nose mirror: black, big and spacious.

Teeth: strong, big, neat. Occlusion for the clamp-like bite or close the scissors-like bite.

【Body】

Neck: fairly relatively long, gently arched.

Back Line: withers is slightly lower than the waist, but no signs of weak or lax.

Body: The best is a short and compact, hips than the shoulders should be wide support for good ribs, chest deep and wide. Is neither a thick chest, nor is it barrel chest. The waist is very strong and slightly arched.

Tail: Tail, tail cut off close to the physical office, so there is no natural swing of the tail.

【Limbs】

Pre-footer scapula tilted backward, cutting-edge stenosis. Forelimb is absolutely straight, and the bone is adequate. From the withers to the elbow of the distance and the distance from the elbow to the ground the same.

Rear round and muscular, hocks low. Standing, no matter from which angle, metatarsal are perpendicular to the ground.

Claw small, round feet, toes arched, pads thick and hard, toe straight ahead.

【Coat】

Coat is very rich, but not too much so that he appeared to be very fat, hard texture, not straight, but it is fluffy. The quality and texture of hair than the gross volume of pure even more important. In the absence of pruning and seasonal hair removal before the end of hair with a water capacity. Ears have adequate coat, the entire head is covered by hair. The neck is also a large number of coat. Legs surrounded by hair. Thighs and buttocks of the hair than other parts of the hair to be more intense, longer, forming so-called "jacket." Coat is gray, gray, blue, or Yun stone color, with or without white markings (or vice versa).