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About the Croatian Shepherd Dog

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

About

O que diz o padrão da raça

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
Comportamento e 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

Tamanho
Necessidade de exercício
Facilidade de treino
Queda de pelo
3 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 Croatian Shepherd Dog

O que ganha com a raça Croatian Shepherd Dog

  • Função declarada no padrão: «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»
  • O padrão descreve a raça assim: «The Croatian Shepherd Dog has a lively temperament and balanced disposition»

O que tem de assumir

  • Exige muitos cuidados com o pelo — a descrição do próprio padrão é «Long hair to be found on the neck (mane), on the back, on the croup, the rib area, on the…»

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. 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 · Croatian Shepherd Dog

Pelo e cor

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

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.

  • 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 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
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
A FCI indica uma tolerância em torno do valor.

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

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

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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