PERRO DE PASTOR MALLORQUIN
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COUNTRY: Spain
WEIGHT: 45-60 pounds
HEIGHT: 19-22 inches
COAT: Short
COLOR: Usually dark brindle or black
OTHER NAMES: Ca de Bestiar
REGISTRY FCI
GROUP Flock Guard
The Dog of Shepherd Mallorquín or Ca de Bestiar is an original race of Spanish dog of Majorca. Employee traditionally in the Majorcan field like guardian of flocks, owns a characteristic coat of black color. The black is the color recognized by the standard, but he is not the unique one. There are white feet, collarados, red and atigrados skirts. Of this last one one is taking at the moment to a program of rearing and recovery.
The insertion of the tail is horizontal, of circular section, heavier in the base. It is not cut. It must be long until the ankle, but without getting to touch the ground. The mantle of black color is only admitted. The target is only accepted in the chest, normally like a “necktie”. Two varieties of hair exist, a length and another short one: the short one is stuck to the skin, and measures between 1.5 and 3 cm.; the length slightly is waved, smooth and quite thick, very resistant to the humidity, etc. The eyes small, are neither sunk nor bulging.
Slightly oblique, bivouacs. They are of color honey, and they vary of the clear one to the dark. The eyes are very expressive and of intelligent glance and something melancholic. The head is massive, but nonheavy. The skull-face axis is slightly divergent. The length of the snout is equal to the one of the skull, and the length overall of the head is equal as well to the one of the neck. Skull with sub-convex profile. Noticeable depression naso frontal, with gradual inclination. The nose is long and strong, never finished in end and the truffle she is black. The palate is pink, and in theory the blackish spots in palate and encías are a purity symptom. The teeth are very strong and they are closed in scissors.
The insertion of the tail is horizontal, of circular section, heavier in the base. It is not cut. It must be long until the ankle, but without getting to touch the ground. The mantle of black color is only admitted. The target is only accepted in the chest, normally like a “necktie”. Two varieties of hair exist, a length and another short one: the short one is stuck to the skin, and measures between 1.5 and 3 cm.; the length slightly is waved, smooth and quite thick, very resistant to the humidity, etc. The eyes small, are neither sunk nor bulging.
Slightly oblique, bivouacs. They are of color honey, and they vary of the clear one to the dark. The eyes are very expressive and of intelligent glance and something melancholic. The head is massive, but nonheavy. The skull-face axis is slightly divergent. The length of the snout is equal to the one of the skull, and the length overall of the head is equal as well to the one of the neck. Skull with sub-convex profile. Noticeable depression naso frontal, with gradual inclination. The nose is long and strong, never finished in end and the truffle she is black. The palate is pink, and in theory the blackish spots in palate and encías are a purity symptom. The teeth are very strong and they are closed in scissors.
