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About the Croatian Shepherd Dog

Origin: Croatia
FCI status
Reconocida por la FCI
FCI group
Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs)
Origin
Croatia
Also called
Perro Pastor Croata
Known hereditary risks
Not researched yet

About

Lo que dice el estándar de la raza

Criado para
The Croatian Shepherd Dog is a breed with combined habits, which means it can be used for herding of livestock as well as a guard dog or companion dog. One hundred years of breeding the Croatian Shepherd Dog in the valley of east Slavonic, near house and yard, have formed a dog well adjusted to all conditions
Comportamiento y temperamento
The Croatian Shepherd Dog has a lively temperament and balanced disposition; it is fond of and devoted to his owner. He must neither be aggressive nor nervous and has to be interested in everything that happens in his surroundings. This breed has an inherited sense for the work with domestic animals. The characteristics of this breed are astuteness, courage, liveliness, endurance, patience and level-headedness during work. The breed is easy to train

Quoted from FCI standard n°277. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Características

Tamaño
Necesidad de ejercicio
Facilidad de adiestramiento
Caída de pelo
3 of 5
Cuidados del pelo
4 of 5
Convivencia con niños
Coste de mantenimiento
Tolera quedarse solo
Inteligencia
Salud de la raza
Not researched yet

Pros & cons

Pros y contras de la raza Croatian Shepherd Dog

Lo que obtienes con la raza Croatian Shepherd Dog

  • Función declarada en el estándar: «The Croatian Shepherd Dog is a breed with combined habits, which means it can be used for herding of livestock as well as a guard dog or companion dog»
  • El estándar describe la raza así: «The Croatian Shepherd Dog has a lively temperament and balanced disposition»

Lo que asumes

  • Exige muchos cuidados del pelo — la descripción del propio estándar es «Long hair to be found on the neck (mane), on the back, on the croup, the rib area, on the…»

Extraído de fuentes y no escrito como opinión — investigación de salud citada, el estándar del propio registro, y estudios de longevidad revisados por pares. Estándar de la raza, FCI. Los animales de un criador pueden diferir de todo esto, y una columna vacía significa que no tenemos nada de ese lado, no que no haya nada que decir.

Characteristics

Estándar de la FCI · Croatian Shepherd Dog

Pelo y color

Tal como lo establece el estándar de la FCI. Cada línea de abajo está en las palabras del propio estándar, etiquetada con permissible.

Coat

Profuse, dense, relatively soft of good quality, this means that it is neither woolly nor harsh to the touch.

It consists of a topcoat and an undercoat.

The topcoat is wavy to curly with a length of 6–14 cm

it is a stand off and elastic coat.

There must be no parting on the back.

The undercoat is dense, compact and soft

together with the topcoat it forms an excellent protecting cover for the dog.

Long hair to be found on the neck (mane), on the back, on the croup, the rib area, on the back part of the forearms (fringes), trousers on the hind legs (culottes) as well as on the tail (flag), unless the tail is short.

The longest coat is at the culottes and near the root of the tail.

At the parting between the short hair on forehead and the longer hair on back of skull, length is around 3,5 cm.

The short hair is straight with a length of 1–1,7 cm.

It is on the muzzle, the forehead, on the ears, around the eyes, on the cheeks, on the front part of the forelegs and also on Carpus and Metacarpus.

On the hind legs the hair is short on the feet and from the Metatarsus to the hock.

Females usually have slightly shorter hair and less profuse coat than males

Color

  • Preferred
  • Permissible
  • Undesirable
  • Disqualifying

«Preferred», «permissible», «undesirable» y «disqualifying» — preferido, admisible, indeseable y descalificante — son las palabras de la propia FCI sobre la raza, y quedan en inglés porque así constan en el estándar. Describen lo que el estándar pide — no son una valoración de ningún perro concreto, ni nuestra.

  • The colour is black.
  • Permissible: A few white hairs, evenly spread over the basic colour (provided they are hardly visible)
  • Permissible: White strands as well as body or leg coat, which is completely inter weaved with white hair
  • Permissible: White marking on the chest, provided it is small (maximum 5 cm.)
  • Permissible: White markings on any other body parts
  • The undercoat is definitely black.
  • Permissible: During the shedding of the coat, the undercoat often goes greyish or sometimes even shows a brown tinge, which

Resumido de FCI standard n°277 — cada etiqueta está en las palabras del propio estándar, con el veredicto pasado a la etiqueta de al lado. Lee la cláusula completa en la fuente.

Lo que dice el estándar de la raza

Tamaño
Height at the withers: Males: 45–50 cm. Females: 43–48 cm. Height difference of +/- 3 cm in males and females of excellent type and conformation is tolerated
La FCI indica una tolerancia en torno a la cifra.

Quoted from FCI standard n°277. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Información a nivel de raza, de The Dog API. Describe la raza Croatian Shepherd Dog en general; cualquier animal concreto puede ser distinto.

Health guide

What to ask for in a Croatian Shepherd Dog

No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Croatian Shepherd Dog 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 Croatian Shepherd Dog 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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