The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-11
HIGHLAND TERRIER
HAS DOUBLE COAT
Outer One Consists Of Hard
Hair and Inner One Is
Like Fur.
WHITE THE ONLY COLOR

The general appearance OF the West
Highland white Terrier IL that OF a
small. game. hardy looking terrier. pos.
sessed with no small amount of self
esteem. with 4 varmin.y appearance,
strongly built. deep in chest and back
ribs. straight back and powerful quar-
ters on muscular legs. and exhibiting IN
a marked degree a great combination
OF strength and activity. The coat should
be about I've and a half inches long.
white I'm color. hard. with plenty OF soft
undercoat. and no tendency to wav OF
curl. The tail shoild be AZ straight a.
possible and not carried too gayly. and
covered with hard hair. but not bushy.
The skull should not he too broad. he
ing in proportion To the terribly power
full jaws. The ears should be as mail
and sharp pointed as possible and car
ried tightly up. and must be absolutely
erect. The eyes should be of moderate
size. dark hazel In color. widely placed.
with "A sharp. bright intelligent express
sion. The muzzle should not be too
long. but powerful and gradually
tapering toward the nose. TEE nose.
roof of mouth and the pads OF the feet
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Color-Pure white. as any other color
Is very Objectionable. "a is an i'm
portant item and Is seldom seen to per-
lection. 1t must be double coated. the
butter coat consisting Of hard hair about
two inches long. m free from curl. The
under coat. watch resembles fur, l. short.
soft and close. open coats are de
cidedly an Objectionable quality.
The size should be from fourteen tn
eighteen pounds in a dog and twelve
to sixteen pounds in bitches. and hould
measure from eight to twelve inches at
the shoulder. The skull should not b.
too narrow. being In proportion to the
powerful Jaw, not too long. slightly
domed and gradually tapering TO thu
eyes. between witch there should b. n
slight indentation or stop eyebrows
heavy. head and neck thickly coated
with hair. The eyes should be widely
set apart. medium in size, dark hazel In
color. slightly sunk in the head, anarl
and intelligent, which looking from un-
der the heavy eyebrows give q piercing
look. Full eyes and also light colored
eyes are objectionable.
The muzzle should he nearly equal in
length to the rest OF the skull. powerful
and gradually taperlng toward the nos"
! which should he fairly wide. The jaws
level and powerful, the teeth ~squarely
or evenly met. well set and large fol
the size of the dog. The nose and root
OF the mouth must be distinctly black II
I color. Ears small. carried erect. but
! never drop. and should be carried tightly
IN. terminating In a sharp point. i'
! hair Of the ears should he short, smooth
velyety. and Trey should not be CUT
The ears should be free from any fring'
at the top. Round pointed, broad anc
large ears are Objectionable also ear
that are too thickly covered with hair
The neck should be muscular and nicely
set on sloping shoulders. Chest shoult
| he very deep. with breadth In proportion
to tae size of the dog.
Body-Compact. straight backed, ribs
deep and we'll arched in the upper hal
az rib. presenting a fiattish side appear
anca. loins broad and strong. h%indquar'
ters strong, muscular and wide acros.
the top.
Legs and Feet-Both fore n hin
broad and we'll sloped backward. Tn
shoulder blades should be co~mparativel,
broad and well sioped backward. Tn
points of the shoulder blades should b.
closely knitted into the ckbon 50
that little movement or tHem snoui'
he noticeable when the dog Is walking
The elbow should be close in to tn
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thus causing the fore leg to be WEI
placed In under tho shoulder. The for
legs should be straight and thickly coy
cred witt short hard hair. The hint
legs should he short n sinewy. Tn
thighs muscular and not too wide par
The hooks bent and we'll set in undo
the body so as to he fairly close 4
each other either when standing. walk
ing or trotting. The fore feet are large
than the hind ones. are round, proper
tionate in size. strong. thickly padde'
and covered with short. hard hair. TIN
hind feet are smaller and thickly padded
The under surface of the pads or Zee
and all nails should be distinctly blacl
in color. Cow hooks detract from til,
general appearance. straight or w"n'
hooks are undesirable ana should b.
guarded against.
The tail should he five or six niche
long. covered with hard hairs. II,
feather. AS straight as possible, carric'
gayly, but not curled over the back
A long tail IL Objectionable. Movemcn
of the dog should be free. straight AM
easy al round. In front the leg shoul'
be freely extended forward by the shout
der. The hind movement should IL
free. strong n close, The hooks shoul'
be freely iieNed and drawn close il
under the body, So that while moving
off the foot the body is thrown u
pushed forward with some force. stun
stiity movement behind Is Objectionable,
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