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About the Schipperke

Origin: Belgium
Typical life span
12-14 years
Size
Small — from its typical weight
Weight
4.5-7 kg
Height
25-33 cm
FCI status
Reconhecida pela FCI
FCI group
Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs)
Origin
Belgium
Known hereditary risks
Not researched yet

About

What is a Schipperke?

Small, compact, tailless spitz-type dog with a distinctive fox-like face, thick double coat, and abundant ruff around the neck. Known as the 'little captain', this agile black dog has a confident demeanor and alert expression.

Schipperke history and origins

Developed in the Flemish regions of Belgium as a canal barge watchdog and ratter. The name means 'little captain' and the breed served as an adept guardian and vermin hunter on Belgian waterways for centuries.

Schipperke appearance and size

Typically 4.5-7 kg and 25-33 cm at the shoulder — published as one range rather than separately for males and females.

O que diz o padrão da raça

Criado para
Small guardian and companion dog
Comportamento e temperamento
An excellent small guard dog, an exceptional alarm, bubbling with vitality, aloof with strangers. Active and busy, agile, tireless, perpetual1y interested in what is going on around it, inclined to snap if anyone approaches objects it has been given to guard, very gentle with children, always curious to know what is going on behind a closed door or behind an object which is being moved, showing its reaction by its high-pitched bark, its raised mane and hackles. It is an inquisitive dog which will hunt rats, moles and other vermin

Quoted from FCI standard n°83. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Referência da raça de The Dog API.

Características

Tamanho
Small
Necessidade de exercício
2 of 5
Facilidade de treino
Queda de pelo
4 of 5
Cuidados com o pelo
4 of 5
Convivência com crianças
Custo de manutenção
Tolera ficar sozinho
Inteligência
Saúde da raça
Not researched yet

Pros & cons

Prós e contras da raça Schipperke

O que ganha com a raça Schipperke

  • Função declarada no padrão: «Small guardian and companion dog»
  • O padrão descreve a raça assim: «An excellent small guard dog, an exceptional alarm, bubbling with vitality, aloof with strangers»
  • Vive mais tempo do que um cão de raça indeterminada — mediana de 14.2 anos em 75 animais, contra 12

O que tem de assumir

  • Exige muitos cuidados com o pelo — a descrição do próprio padrão é «Around the neck the hair is much longer and more off-standing, beginning at the outer…»

Retirado de fontes e não escrito como opinião — investigação de saúde citada, o padrão do próprio registo, e estudos de longevidade revistos por pares. Padrão da raça, FCI; McMillan et al. 2024, median age at death. Os animais de um criador podem diferir de tudo isto, e uma coluna vazia significa que não temos nada desse lado, não que não haja nada a dizer.

Characteristics

Padrão da FCI · Schipperke

Pelo e cor

Tal como o padrão da FCI o estabelece. Cada linha abaixo está nas palavras do próprio padrão, etiquetada com permissible.

Coat

The top coat is abundant, thick, straight and sufficiently harsh, with quite firm texture, therefore dry and resistant to the touch, forming an excellent protection together with the soft thick undercoat.

Very short hair on the ears, short hair on the head, the front part of the front legs, the hocks and rear pasterns.

On the body, the average length hair is close-lying.

Around the neck the hair is much longer and more off-standing, beginning at the outer edges of the ears, forming, especial1y in the male but also in the female, a wide and very typical ruff (long hair around the neck, in tufts on each side), a “mane” (long hair on the top of the neck, continuing as far as the withers and the shoulders) and a frill (long hair on the underside of the neck and on the chest, stretching between the forelegs and gradually fading away under the chest).

On the back of the thighs long and abundant hair covering the anal region, with tips angled inward in a very typical way, form the culottes.

The tail is furnished with hair the same length as that on the body

Cor

  • Preferred
  • Permissible
  • Undesirable
  • Disqualifying

«Preferred», «permissible», «undesirable» e «disqualifying» — preferida, admissível, indesejável e desqualificante — são as palavras da própria FCI sobre a raça, e ficam em inglês porque é assim que constam do padrão. Descrevem o que o padrão exige — não são uma avaliação de nenhum cão em concreto, nem nossa.

Cor de base

Totally black

  • The undercoat need not be completely black but can also be dark grey provided it is totally hidden by the top coat.
  • Permissible: A little greying for example on the muzzle due to age

Resumido de FCI standard n°83 — cada etiqueta está nas palavras do próprio padrão, com o veredito passado para a etiqueta ao lado. Leia a cláusula completa na fonte.

O que diz o padrão da raça

Tamanho
Weight: Between 3 and 9 kg. An average weight of 4 to 7 kg is sought after
A FCI distingue um ideal daquilo que é permitido.

Quoted from FCI standard n°83. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

O que o padrão penaliza

Aquilo que faz um juiz descontar pontos à raça Schipperke, e o que a põe fora do ring, nas palavras do próprio registo. Isto descreve o padrão da raça — não é uma lista de verificação para o animal que tem à frente, e um animal de companhia com um defeito desqualificante é um cão que não pode ir a exposição, não um cão doente.

Defeitos graves

Contam fortemente contra um exemplar no ring.

  • Teeth: Lack of one incisor (1I), of three premolars 1 (3 PM1) or two premolars 2 (2 PM2)

FCI standard n°83

Informação ao nível da raça, de The Dog API. Descreve a raça Schipperke em geral; qualquer animal em concreto pode ser diferente.

Health guide

What to ask for in a Schipperke

No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Schipperke on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.

Puppies

No puppies listed right now

No Schipperke breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.

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