{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_irish_water_spaniel_dog","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_irish_water_spaniel_dog\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Irish Water Spaniel — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale) official breed-standard factual data for Irish Water Spaniel, extracted verbatim (field values + section outline) from source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/irish_water_spaniel_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_irish_water_spaniel_dog/01_companion_breed_standard_irish_water_spaniel_dog.md\nsource_document: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\n  title: \"Irish Water Spaniel — breed standard (AKC & FCI: 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 & FCI 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# Irish Water Spaniel — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\n## Claims\n\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* An Irish water dog (FCI standard 124) in FCI Group 8, which covers Retrievers, Flushing Dogs and Water Dogs, placed in Section 3 (the Water Dogs) with a working trial; used as a wildfowling retriever.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Size: AKC height 22–24 in dogs, 21–23 in bitches; weight 55–68 lb dogs, 45–58 lb bitches. FCI height 53–59 cm dogs, 51–56 cm bitches.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The coat is a dense mass of tight, crisp ringlets with a natural oiliness and no woolliness; the face is smooth, the skull carries a topknot of long loose curls, and the tail is the smooth \"rat tail\" (curled only at the root).\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Colour is a very rich puce liver (the AKC describes liver to dark liver with a purplish cast); white is undesirable, and white on the chest is a fault.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Temperament is alert, curious and active, stable and humorous, proud and loyal, though reserved with strangers; the AKC notes it is never aggressive or shy.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Faults include white on chest or feet, a pale coat, a light eye, a woolly coat, feathering on the front of the hocks, stern or face, missing foreleg feather, and splay feet.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Disqualifications: aggressive or extremely timid dogs, or any with clear physical or behavioural defects.\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Irish Water Spaniel — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Irish Water Spaniel — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)","url":"https://www.akc.org","retrieved":"2026-08-02","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/irish_water_spaniel_combined.txt"},"source_document":"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/irish_water_spaniel_combined.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":569,"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."}