{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_rafeiro_do_alentejo_dog","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\n\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_rafeiro_do_alentejo_dog\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Rafeiro Do Alentejo — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale) official breed-standard factual data for Rafeiro Do Alentejo, extracted verbatim (field values + section outline) from source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/rafeiro_do_alentejo_combined.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-02\ntokens_estimated: 0\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 9\n  passed: 9\n  date: 2026-08-05\nrecovered: false\npath: companion-breed-standard/companion_breed_standard_rafeiro_do_alentejo_dog/01_companion_breed_standard_rafeiro_do_alentejo_dog.md\nsource_document: \"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\n  title: \"Rafeiro Do Alentejo — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\n  url: \"https://www.fci.be\"\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# Rafeiro Do Alentejo — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\n## Claims\n\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The breed's country of origin is Portugal.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* FCI places it in Group 2 (Pinscher and Schnauzer, Molossoid and Swiss mountain/cattle breeds), Section 2.2 Molossoid / Mountain type, with no working trial; its standard is number 96.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Its stated use is as a guard dog for property and livestock.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Height at the withers runs 66 to 74 cm for males and 64 to 70 cm for females, with weight 45 to 60 kg and 35 to 50 kg respectively.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The coat is short or medium in length (medium preferred), thick, straight and dense, spread evenly down to between the toes.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Colours are black, grey of the wolf type, fawn or yellow, either brindled or not, and always marked with white, or white with patches of these shades.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The temperament makes an excellent farm and estate watchdog and a useful livestock protector, more alert at night and serious when guarding; it shows a calm, confident manner, neither aggressive nor shy.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Disqualifying faults include aggression or extreme shyness, clear physical or behavioural abnormality, atypical type, an extremely light or lymphatic build, a very narrow long head, a too-long or convex muzzle, undershot or overshot jaw, mismatched pale eyes, a tailless condition, total lack of pigment (albinism), and too-short coat.\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Rafeiro Do Alentejo — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Rafeiro Do Alentejo — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)","url":"https://www.fci.be","retrieved":"2026-08-02","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/rafeiro_do_alentejo_combined.txt"},"source_document":"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/rafeiro_do_alentejo_combined.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":553,"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."}