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Current FCI Wording: FCI-Standard # 283 / 04.02.2000 / GB COTON DE
TULEAR TRANSLATION: Pamela Jeans-Brown, Renee Sporre-Willes, Raymond Triquet
ORIGIN: Madagascar
PATRONAGE: France
DATE OF
PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD: 25.11.1999
UTILIZATION: Companion Dog CLASSIFICATION FCI: Group 9 Companion and
Toy Dogs Section 1.2. Coton de Tulear Without working trial.
BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY:
Introduced to France long before its official recognition in 1970 this newcomer from Madagascar quickly acquired a prominent position amongst the companion dogs of this country; today it is widespread all over the world. Current FCI wording:
GENERAL APPEARANCE:
Small, longhaired companion dog with a white cotton textured coat, with round, dark eyes and a lively, intelligent expression.
IMPORTANT PROPORTIONS:
The height at the withers in relationship to the length of the body is 2 to 3. - The length of the head in relationship to that of the body is 2 to 5. - The length of the skull in relationship to that of the muzzle is 9 to 5.
BEHAVIOUR/TEMPERAMENT:
Of a happy temperament, stable, very sociable with humans and with other dogs; it adapts perfectly to all ways of life. The temperament of the Coton de Tulear is one of the main characteristics of the breed.
HEAD:
Short, seen from above triangular.
CRANIAL REGION:
- SKULL: Seen from the front, slightly rounded; rather wide in relation to its length. Superciliary arches only slightly developed. Slight frontal groove. Occipital protuberance and crest only slightly accentuated. Well developed zygomatic arches. STOP: Slight.
FACIAL REGION:
- NOSE: In the extension of the nasal bridge; black; brown is tolerated; nostrils wide open
- MUZZLE: Straight LIPS: Fine, tight, of the same colour as the nose.
- JAWS/TEETH: Teeth well aligned. Scissor bite, pincer bite or inverted bite without losing contact. The absence of PM1s is not penalized; the M3s are not taken into consideration.
- CHEEKS: Lean
- EYES: Rather rounded, dark, lively, wide apart; the rims of the eyelids are well pigmented with black or brown according to the colour of the nose.
- EARS: Pendulous, triangular, high set on the skull, fine at the tips; carried close to the cheeks, reaching the corners of the lips. Covered with white hairs or with some traces of light grey (mixture of white and black hairs giving a light grey appearance) or red-road (mixture of white and fawn hairs giving a red-roan appearance - lemon)
- NECK: Well muscled, slight arched. Neck well set into shoulders. Proportion of neck to body = 1/5. Clean neck with no dewlap.