(AKC Non-Sporting Group)
Height: 14 to 16 inches.
Size: Small.
Weight: 20 to 24 pounds.
Availability: May take some effort to find.
Size: Small.
Weight: 20 to 24 pounds.
Availability: May take some effort to find.
ORIGIN : Tibet.
UTILIZATION : Companion dog.
GENERAL APPEARANCE : Sturdy, medium-sized, long-haired,
generally square outline; resolute expression.
BEHAVIOR / TEMPERAMENT : Lively, good-natured. Loyal
companion dog with many engaging ways. Outgoing, alert, intelligent
and game; neither fierce nor pugnacious. Sparing of affection to
strangers.
companion dog with many engaging ways. Outgoing, alert, intelligent
and game; neither fierce nor pugnacious. Sparing of affection to
strangers.
HEAD : Head well furnished with long hair, falling forward over
eyes. Lower jaw carrying small, but not exaggerated amount of beard.
CRANIAL REGION :
Skull : Of medium length, neither broad nor coarse, narrowing slightly
from ear to eye, neither domed nor absolutely flat between ears.
Stop : Marked in front of eyes, but not exaggerated.
FACIAL REGION :
Nose : Black.
Muzzle : Strong. Length from eye to tip of nose equal to length from
eye to base of skull.
Jaw/Teeth : Lower jaw well developed. Incisors set in slight curve,
evenly spaced and set perpendicular to jaw. Scissor or reversed
scissor bite.
Cheeks : Zygomatic arch curved, but not overdeveloped so as to
bulge.
Eyes : Large, round, neither prominent nor sunken; set fairly wide
apart; dark brown. Eye rims black.
Ears : Pendant, carried not too close to head, V-shaped, not too large,
heavily feathered.
BODY : Well muscled, compact and powerful. Length from point of
shoulder to root of tail equal to height at withers.
Back : Level over ribs.
Loin : Short, slightly arched.
Croup : Level.
Chest : Well ribbed up.
TAIL : Medium length, set on fairly high and carried in a gay curl
over back. Very well feathered. Kink near tip often occurring and
permissible.
LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS : Heavily furnished. Legs straight and parallel.
Shoulders : Well laid.
Pasterns : Slightly sloping.
HINDQUARTERS : Heavily furnished.
Stifles : Well bent.
Hocks : Low set.
FEET : Large, round, heavily furnished with hair between toes and
pads. Standing well down on pads; no arch in feet.
GAIT / MOVEMENT : Smooth; good reach; powerful drive. When
walking or trotting hind legs should track neither inside nor outside
the front legs.
COAT
HAIR : Double coat. Undercoat fine and woolly. Top coat profuse,
fine but not silky nor woolly; long; either straight or waved but not
curled.
COLOR : White, golden, cream, grey or smoke, black, parti-colour
and tricolors; in fact any colour except chocolate or liver permissible.
SIZE :
Height at shoulder : Dogs 35.6 – 40.6 cm (14 – 16 ins);
bitches slightly smaller.
eyes. Lower jaw carrying small, but not exaggerated amount of beard.
CRANIAL REGION :
Skull : Of medium length, neither broad nor coarse, narrowing slightly
from ear to eye, neither domed nor absolutely flat between ears.
Stop : Marked in front of eyes, but not exaggerated.
FACIAL REGION :
Nose : Black.
Muzzle : Strong. Length from eye to tip of nose equal to length from
eye to base of skull.
Jaw/Teeth : Lower jaw well developed. Incisors set in slight curve,
evenly spaced and set perpendicular to jaw. Scissor or reversed
scissor bite.
Cheeks : Zygomatic arch curved, but not overdeveloped so as to
bulge.
Eyes : Large, round, neither prominent nor sunken; set fairly wide
apart; dark brown. Eye rims black.
Ears : Pendant, carried not too close to head, V-shaped, not too large,
heavily feathered.
BODY : Well muscled, compact and powerful. Length from point of
shoulder to root of tail equal to height at withers.
Back : Level over ribs.
Loin : Short, slightly arched.
Croup : Level.
Chest : Well ribbed up.
TAIL : Medium length, set on fairly high and carried in a gay curl
over back. Very well feathered. Kink near tip often occurring and
permissible.
LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS : Heavily furnished. Legs straight and parallel.
Shoulders : Well laid.
Pasterns : Slightly sloping.
HINDQUARTERS : Heavily furnished.
Stifles : Well bent.
Hocks : Low set.
FEET : Large, round, heavily furnished with hair between toes and
pads. Standing well down on pads; no arch in feet.
GAIT / MOVEMENT : Smooth; good reach; powerful drive. When
walking or trotting hind legs should track neither inside nor outside
the front legs.
COAT
HAIR : Double coat. Undercoat fine and woolly. Top coat profuse,
fine but not silky nor woolly; long; either straight or waved but not
curled.
COLOR : White, golden, cream, grey or smoke, black, parti-colour
and tricolors; in fact any colour except chocolate or liver permissible.
SIZE :
Height at shoulder : Dogs 35.6 – 40.6 cm (14 – 16 ins);
bitches slightly smaller.