{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_saint_bernard_dog","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\n\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_saint_bernard_dog\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Saint Bernard — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) official breed-standard factual data for Saint Bernard, extracted verbatim (field values + section outline) from source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/saint_bernard_combined.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-02\ntokens_estimated: 0\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 2\n  passed: 2\n  date: 2026-08-05\nrecovered: false\npath: companion-breed-standard/companion_breed_standard_saint_bernard_dog/01_companion_breed_standard_saint_bernard_dog.md\nsource_document: \"AKC (American Kennel Club)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"AKC (American Kennel Club)\"\n  title: \"Saint Bernard — 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/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# Saint Bernard — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\n## Claims\n\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A powerful, proportionately tall and muscular dog with a strong head and an intelligent expression; it comes in shorthaired and longhaired varieties that are alike except for the coat.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Height at the shoulder is at least 27½ inches for dogs and 25½ inches for bitches.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The shorthaired coat is very dense, smooth-lying and tough without feeling rough; the longhaired coat is of medium length, plain to slightly wavy, never rolled, curly or shaggy, with a bushy tail.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Colour is white with red or red with white in its shades, with brindle patches and white markings; required white markings are the chest, feet, tail tip, noseband, collar or nape spot, and the dog is never of one colour or without white, while dark head/ear shadings are favoured.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Faults include a swayback or over-long back, too-bent hocks, straight hindquarters, hair growing up between the toes, out-at-elbow, cowhocks and weak pasterns; the AKC standard gives no disqualifying conditions.\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Saint Bernard — breed standard (AKC: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Saint Bernard — 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/saint_bernard_combined.txt"},"source_document":"AKC (American Kennel Club)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/saint_bernard_combined.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":455,"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."}