West Highland White Terrier

      From the Scottish West Highland White Terrier pure class, originated in the 19th century. In appearance, the face a bit like a fox, a rather long nose. Reportedly, all the Scottish Terrier is inherited from a common ancestor, and then distributed throughout the United Kingdom. West Highland White Terrier was originally used to hunt otters, foxes and rats. 19th century, the famous Duke of breeders Ya Gaier Dan Barton County territories, Colonel Malcolm in Puerto Roque village for up to 60 years of development work, and Solanum species dogs mating, fixed today, we The well-known face. So, West Highland White Terrier used to be called Puerto Roque stems.

【Character】

The dog size small and exquisite, custom apartment living, quality of hardware, and sleek hair, cheeks, hair erect, look cute, the film on the mirror supporting that often. Robust physique, personality moderate, lively, endurance, can be a long time, long-distance running with the person or vehicle, character active, self-confidence strong, very emotional, to master faithful and cheerful. For each family member, the West Highland White Terrier is a pleasant companion, is a suitable family dog. Feeding must be guaranteed a certain amount of exercise, regular outdoor activities. As the dog a beautiful white coat, it must be combed every day. Can not bathe too often, in order to prevent hair loss affect lipid coat beautiful.

【Size】

Height: 25 ~ 28cm

Weight: 7 ~ 10kg

【Head】

Starting from the forehead rounded head. The proportion of head and trunk coordination. Expression keen, curious, and lively.

Eye spacing wide, medium size, almond-shaped, dark brown, deep-set eyes, giving it a sharp and intelligent eyes, thick eyebrows from the lower part of view, gives a lively expression. Edge black eye.

Ears small, strictly upright, ears wide spacing, located in the outer head. Pointed ears. Sharp-eared hard coat. Preferably with a black skin pigmentation. Skull broad, slightly longer than the proboscis, head men flat between the ears is slightly conical. To the eye, gradually become sharp.

Nose tight obvious thick eyebrows. Kiss of blunt-shaped, shorter than the skull, sturdy and a gradual change toward the nose tip. Big black nose. Jaw level, strong and powerful. Lips hyperpigmentation.

【Body】

Muscular neck and shoulders with a good tilt. The length of the neck and other parts of the proportion of co-ordination. Back line, when standing or walking back flat and straight.

Trunk compact, sturdy. Deep rib and the upper half was a good arch, or at least extend to the elbow, the side bias level. Dorsal ribs quite deep, and the last rib and the upper thigh, the distance is short, freedom of movement and body coordinated. Chest very deep, extending to the elbow, its width is proportional to the size of the dog. Waist short, wide and strong. Tube-shaped ribs, the ribs can not be to the elbow. Tail is relatively short, strong, like carrots. When the vertical tail was absolutely not over his head. Hard coating tail hair, no hair ornaments, as much as possible straight, tail showing cheerful attitude, not curled in the back. The tail should be set high enough to allow the spine does not tilt to it. From the constant tail.

【Limbs】

Precursor shoulder thrown back, and spine good combination. Scapula and moderate length of the upper arm to form a point of view should be, so that the trunk in a state of apparent hanging. Foreleg muscles and bones well developed, shorter. Legs moderately straight, there are dense coat of short, hard cover. They should, and scapula joints good, makes obvious the front legs and the trunk hanging. Distance from the elbow to the shoulder uplift is approximately equal to the elbow to the ground level. Front foot than the rear foot big, round and in proportion to body size, thick cushions. May be appropriate for a minor foot external rotation.

Well-developed thigh muscles, angle good, two legs spacing wide, tarsal joints bend smoothly and are well short view from behind, when Peter than the parallel. Muscular hind legs, relatively short.

【Coat】

For the double hair coat. Outer coat straight and hard from the composition of the white feather. Is about 5.1 centimeters, neck and back, short coat. Abdomen and legs longer hair ornaments. The ideal coat should be hard, straight, white. But the hard, straight coat can have some for a layer of white fluff or soft hair color for the very ideal of wheat Tippy. Decorative hair can be a little soft, a bit longer.