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FCI - Standard Nr: 294 / Group 6
Caja vom Otter-Zentrum
Date of publication of the original valid standard: 02.12.1987
Utilization: Big, strong hound primarly built for long day's work in water, but able to gallop on land.
Classification
FCI: Group 6 Scent hounds and related breeds
Section 1.1. Large
sized Hounds Without working trial.
General appearance: Large, straight limbed and sound, rough coated with majestic head, strong body and loose, long striding action. Rough double coat and large feet essential. Free moving.
Behaviour and temperament: Amiable and eventempered.
Xandra v. d. Kweb with Katja
Important proportions: Distance from nose end to stop slightly shorter than from stop to occiput.
Head: Clean, very imposing, deep rather than wide, No trace of scowlor bulge on forehead, expression being open and amiable. Whole head except for nose well covered with rough hair, ending in slight moustache and beard.
Cranial
region:
Skull: Nicely
domed, neither coarse nor overdone, rising from stop to slight peak
at occiput. Clean cheekbones.
Stop: Distinct,
though not exaggerated.
Facial
region:
Nose: Good wide,wide nostrils.
Muzzle: Strong, deep.
Lips: Plenty of lip and flew, but not exaggerated.
Mouth: Jaws
strong, large; well placed teeth with perfect, regular scissor bite,
i.e. the upper teeth closely overlapping the lower teeth and set square
to the jaws.
Eyes: Intelligent, moderately deep-set eye; haw showing only
slightly. Eye colour and rim pigment variable according to coat colour
(a blue and tan hound may have hazel eyes). Yellow eye undesirable.
Leathers: Unique
feature of the breed. Long, pendulous, set on level with corner of eye;
easliy reaching nose when pulled forward, with characteristic fold.
Leading edge folding or rolling inwards giving curious draped appearance
- an essential point no to be lost. Well covered and fringed with hair.
Xandre v. d. Kweb
Neck:
Long, powerful, set smoothly into well laid back, clean shoulders. Slight
dewlap permissible.
Body:
Very strong.
Top line: Level
Back: Broad
Loin: Short and strong
Chest: Deep with well sprung, fairly deep oval ribcage; neither
too wide nor too narrow.
Ribs: Carried well back allowing plenty of heart and lung room.
Tail: (Stern) Set high, carried up when
alert or moving, never curling over back and may droop when standing.
Thick at base, tapering to point; bone reaching to hock and carried
straight or in a slight curve. Hair under tail rather longer and more
profuse than that on upper surface.
Limbs
Forequarters:
Strong boned,straight from elbow to ground.
Shoulders: Well laid.
Pastern: Strong and slightly sprung.
Hindquarters:
Very strong; well muscled when viewed from any angle, standing neither
too wide nor too narrow behind. Hindangulation moderate. In natural
stance, hindlegs from hock to ground perpendicular.
Things and second
things: Heavily muscled.
Hocks: Well
let down, turning neither in nor out.
Feet: Large, round, well knuckled, thick padded, turning neither in nor out. Compact but capable of spreading; hind feet only slightly amaller than fore feet. Web must be in evidence.
Gait/Movement: Very loose and shambling at walk, springing immediately into a loose, very long-striding, sound, active trot. Gallop smooth and exceptionally long striding.
Coat
Hair: Long 4 - 8 cm, 11/2 - 3 ins) dense rough, harsh and waterproof but not wiry of broken appearance. Softer hair on head and lower legs natural. Undercoat evident and there may be a slight oily texture in top and undercoat. Not trimmed for exhibiton. Presentation should be natural.
Colour: All recognized hound colours permissible : whole coloured, grizzle, sandy, red, wheaten, blue; these may have slight white markings on head, chest, feet and tail tip. White hounds may have slight lemon, blue or badger pied markings. Black and tan, blue and tan, black and cream, occasional liver, tan and liver, tan and white.
Colours not permissible: liver and white, a white-bodied hound with black and tan patches distinctly separate. Pigment should harmonize though not necessarily blend with coat colour; for example a tan hound may have a brown nose and eye rims. A slight butterfly nose permissible.
Size: Height at shoulder approximately 67 cm (27 ins) for dogs; bitches 60 cm (24 ins).
Faults: Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to ist degree.
N.B.: Male animals should have two apparently normal testicules fully descended into the scrotum.
REMARK:
Look at: " THE OTTERHOUND" an introduction to an amiable hound, from the Otterhound-Club GB
Titel ***Grooming***
<< The coat is not trimmed for show competition. This point is made in the breed standard. The last sentence in that section of the standard which describes the coat sometimes causes confusion. "Presentation should be natural." emphasises the absence of trimming it is true but, in the original standard, it referred to the fact that the hound is not posed with the tail held up sabre-like or over the back. The inclusion of the sentence under "coat" is somewhat misleading.>>
Weight: 30 kg - 54 kg (65 - 120 lbs.)
Life span: 12 - 14 Years
Litter: 7 - 10 puppies, somtimes 13 puppies
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