- The Sharplanina is a solid coloured dog.
- All colours are acceptable from white to dark brown that looks almost black.
- Preferred: The shade is a greenish grey (iron grey) and dark grey
- Permissible: Spotting and white markings
- Undesirable: Pigmented dogs may show tiny white markings at the chest and toes but they
- The upper part of the head, the neck and the body is of a darker hue that fades out into a dirty white or a yellowish grey toward the extremities.
- The change must be very gradual and by no means give the impression of a spotted pattern of actually create a spotted coat
About the Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina
Origin: North Macedonia, SerbiaYugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Pinscher and Schnauzer - Molossoid and Swiss Mountain and Cattledogs
- Origin
- North Macedonia, Serbia
- Also called
- Perro de Pastor Yugoslavo de Charplanina
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
Nothing written about this breed yet. The hereditary risks are sourced — read those.
Characteristics
- Size
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- Exercise needs
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- Easy to train
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- Amount of shedding
- 4 of 5
- Grooming needs
- 4 of 5
- Good with children
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- Cost to keep
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- Tolerates being alone
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- Intelligence
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- Health of breed
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros & cons for the Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina
What you get with the Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina
Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.
What you are taking on
- High grooming needs — the standard’s own description is “Around the neck, on the rump, at the rear side of the legs and on the tail the hair is…”
Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. FCI breed standard. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.
Characteristics
FCI standard · Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged preferred, permissible and undesirable.
Coat
The head, ears and front side of the legs are covered with short hair.
Around the neck, on the rump, at the rear side of the legs and on the tail the hair is long, almost flat and somewhat coarse.
Under the guard hair the abundant undercoat is short, dense and of fine texture.
At the withers the hair should measure between 10 and 12 cm
it should not be shorter than 7 cm
Colour
- Preferred
- Permissible
- Undesirable
- Disqualifying
Preferred, permissible, undesirable and disqualifying are FCI’s own words about the breed. They describe what the standard asks for — not an assessment of any individual dog, and not ours.
Shortened from FCI standard n°41 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
What the standard penalises
What a judge marks the Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina down for, and what puts one out of the ring, in the registry’s own words. This describes the breed standard — it is not a checklist for the animal in front of you, and a pet with a disqualifying fault is an unshowable dog rather than an unhealthy one.
Severe faults
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
- Muzzle too long or snipy.
- Ears set too high or standing off (not hanging close enough to the cheeks).
- Pincer (level) bite.
- Swayback.
- Tail carried with a side bend.
- Lympathic constitution and other severe physical faults
Disqualifying faults
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
- Any dog clearly abnormalities.
- Missing premolars.
- A striking disproportion between the length of the body and showing physical or behavioural the height at the withers. Insufficient height at the withers.
- Hair shorter than 7 cm.
- Extended white markings (spotting) and brindle pattern.
- Unpigmented visible mucous membranes and eyes.
- Any future betraying a degeneration, severely cowlegged or cowhocked, like over- or undershot mouths, bobtails (dogs born with only a stump or not tail at all), severe swayback, etc
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina 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.
Gallery
No photographs yet
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Puppies
No puppies listed right now
No Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog Sharplanina 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.