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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
Reconocida por la 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.

Lo que dice el estándar de la raza

Criado para
Small guardian and companion dog
Comportamiento y 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.

Referencia de la raza de The Dog API.

Características

Tamaño
Small
Necesidad de ejercicio
2 of 5
Facilidad de adiestramiento
Caída de pelo
4 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 Schipperke

Lo que obtienes con la raza Schipperke

  • Función declarada en el estándar: «Small guardian and companion dog»
  • El estándar describe la raza así: «An excellent small guard dog, an exceptional alarm, bubbling with vitality, aloof with strangers»
  • Vive más que un perro mestizo — mediana de 14.2 años en 75 animales, frente a 12

Lo que asumes

  • Exige muchos cuidados del pelo — la descripción del propio estándar es «Around the neck the hair is much longer and more off-standing, beginning at the outer…»

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; McMillan et al. 2024, median age at death. 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 · Schipperke

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

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

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.

Color 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 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
Weight: Between 3 and 9 kg. An average weight of 4 to 7 kg is sought after
La FCI distingue un ideal de lo que está permitido.

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

Lo que el estándar penaliza

Aquello por lo que un juez resta puntos a la raza Schipperke, y lo que la deja fuera del ring, en las palabras del propio registro. Esto describe el estándar de la raza — no es una lista de comprobación para el animal que tienes delante, y un animal de compañía con un defecto descalificante es un perro que no puede ir a exposición, no un perro enfermo.

Defectos graves

Cuentan mucho en contra de un ejemplar en el ring.

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

FCI standard n°83

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

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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