Skye Terrier — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)

Skye Terrier — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)

Claims

• *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Origin and group: a Scottish terrier from Great Britain; AKC Terrier group, and FCI places it in Group 3, the terriers, and within Section 2 among the small-sized terriers, exhibited without a working trial.
• *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Size and shape: a long, low dog twice as long as it is high, with a level topline, deep chest of oval ribs and a long well-feathered tail. AKC ideal height is 10 in for dogs and 9.5 in for bitches (length to height 2 to 1); FCI ideal height at the withers is 25 to 26 cm, with length from nose to tail about 105 cm.
• *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Coat: a double coat with a short, close, soft woolly undercoat and a hard, straight, flat outer coat about 5.5 in long; it parts from head to tail and hangs straight down each side, while the head hair veils the forehead and eyes and forms a beard and apron, and the ears carry long straight feathering.
• *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Colour: one overall colour at the skin — black, blue, dark or light grey, silver platinum, fawn or cream — with the desirable black points on ears, muzzle and tail tip; there must be no pattern or clear-cut colour variation, except a permissible white spot on the chest not over 2 in across.
• *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Head and temperament: a long powerful head with close-set brown (preferably dark) eyes, prick or drop ears, and a black nose; the typical working-terrier character is fearless, good-tempered, loyal and canny, friendly with those it knows but reserved and cautious with strangers (FCI adds elegant, dignified, a one-man dog, distrustful of strangers yet never vicious).
• *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Disqualifications: a Dudley, flesh-coloured or brown nose (AKC). FCI also disqualifies aggressive or overly shy dogs and any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormality; males should have two normal descended testicles.