{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_boerboel_dog","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_boerboel_dog\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Boerboel — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) official breed-standard factual data for Boerboel, extracted verbatim (field values + section outline) from source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/boerboel_combined.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-02\ntokens_estimated: 0\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 7\n  passed: 7\n  date: 2026-08-05\nrecovered: false\npath: companion-breed-standard/companion_breed_standard_boerboel_dog/01_companion_breed_standard_boerboel_dog.md\nsource_document: \"AKC (American Kennel Club)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"AKC (American Kennel Club)\"\n  title: \"Boerboel — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\n  url: \"https://www.akc.org\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-02\"\n  ref: \"Official breed standards (factual data points + section outline extracted verbatim)\"\n  doc_type: \"official kennel-club breed standards\"\n  needs_review: false\nlicense: paraphrase\ncopyright_note: \"Sources (AKC breed-standard texts) are not openly licensed; per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3 every claim is a paraphrased derived fact summary (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten), not a verbatim quotation.\"\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:kennel-club-breed-standard\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-05\n---\n\n# Boerboel — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\n## Claims\n\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A large South African mastiff developed from farm dogs of the seventeenth-century settlers; protective, calm, stable and confident, it is strong and muscular with powerful free-flowing movement.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Preferred height is 24–27 inches for dogs and 22–25 inches for bitches; the body is slightly longer than tall in roughly a 10-to-9 ratio, and balance matters more than absolute size.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The short dense coat is shiny and smooth; colours include red, brown, reddish brown, fawn and cream, plus brindle (in any accepted colour) and Irish marking, with a black mask preferred and only limited clear white on the legs and forechest.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The head is blocky, broad, deep and square, with fully black nostrils; the eyes are medium and preferably dark brown.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Temperament is dominant and clever, with a strong guarding instinct and an eagerness to please; calm and confident, sometimes aloof, yet affectionate with family.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Faults include being severely out of proportion, reversal of sex characteristics, and yellow (bird-of-prey) eyes.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Disqualifications: blue eye(s), entropion or ectropion, undershot beyond ¼ inch or overshot bite, wry mouth, prick ears, a blue (powder) coat, a base colour not listed, a long coat, a nose leather not black, and white exceeding 33 percent of the dog (or ticking within the white).\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Boerboel — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Boerboel — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type)","url":"https://www.akc.org","retrieved":"2026-08-02","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"AKC (American Kennel Club)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/boerboel_combined.txt"},"source_document":"AKC (American Kennel Club)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/boerboel_combined.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":533,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}