CHOW CHOW

Standard the ICF n205 of the 9 June 1999/GB
Country of origin
China
Sponsorship
Great Britain
Date of the publication of the Standard originates them valid: 24.06.1987
Use: guard, company
Classification F.C.I.
Group 5 Spitz and primitivo type
Section 5 Spitz Asian analogous us and razze
Without job test
General aspect
Active, compact dog, from the short kidney and above all very proporzionato, from the aspect leonino, fierce and dignitoso portamento, of sturdy structure; the tail capacity clearly on the back.
COMPORTAMENTO/TEMPERAMENTO
Calm dog, good guardiano, black-bluastra, only language in its sailing point "on the trampoli".
Independent, faithful but distaccato.
Head and skull
CRANIAL REGION
Skull: wide plate and. Very full under to the eyes
Stop: not pronounced.
Region makes them
Tartufo: large and wide, in any case black (with the exception of the cream and nearly the white man in the whose allowed case a tartufo devout clearly, and in the blueta and cinnamon in tune with the color of the cape).

snout : of length moderated, wide from the eyes until the estremit (not to tip to the estremit like in the vixen).
Labbra : Black Labbra and palate (blue-black), preferibilmente black gums. Language blue-nerastra.
Mascelle/denti : Strong and regular teeth, strong jaws, with one perfect, regular and complete closing to scissor, es. the advanced teeth cover the inferiors and are implant to you to square in connection with the jaws well.
Eyes : dark, of shape oval, medium dimension and cleaned up. For the blueta and the allowed cinnamon a color in tune with the cape. Cleaned up, free eyes from entropion, than do not have to be only penalize to you for the dimension.
Orecchie : small, thick, leggermente rounded off to the estremit, straight capacities and very distanced, but that they head for ahead above the leggermente convergent eyes and, that confer the peculiar characteristic of the corrucciata expression of the race (scowl). This expression does not have to be the result of the relaxation of the pliche of the skin the head.
Neck : , strongly full, not short, very inserted in the shoulders and leggermente arch.
Body
Posterior: Short, horizontal and fort.
Kidney: Powerful
Thorax: Wide and deep. Ribs very arch, but not to "circle of botte".
Tail: Inserted high, very capacity on the back.

LIMBS
Front: Perfectly straight front legs, of moderated length, with good skeleton.
Shoulders: Muscolose and tilted.
Posterior: Muscolose posterior legs.
Articulation of the garretto: Very come down, with one minimal angle-shot, essential thing in order to produce the characteristic walk "on the trampoli". Not flette never in ahead.
Garretto: From the articulations of the garretto towards the bottom cos to seem straight.
Feet: Small, round, foot from cat, in perpendicularly on the fingers.
Sailing point and movement
Short sailing point and "on the trampoli".
The front limbs and the posterior ones move in straight parallel in ahead.
Cape
Hair : variet to long hair and variet to short hair:
to) variet to long hair: abundant, dense, straight and detached hair.
Hair of cover rather ispido, with sottopelo soft and lanoso. Particularly driven in around the neck where form one criniera or one colleretta and behind thighs form of the good ones "culottes".
b) variet to short hair: abundant, dense, straight, than it is straightened, not flat, of webbing like the peluche.

Every artificial ontraction of the hair that modifies the silhouette natural or the expression of the Chow penalized Chow sar.

Color : black, red, blue unicolore, cinnamon, cream or white man, often with shadings but not with spots or pluricolore (the inferior part of the tail and devout thighs often of color clearly).
Ransom
Height to the garrese:
Males: from 48 to 56 (19-22 ins) centimeters to the garrese.
Females: from 46 to 51 (18-20 ins) centimeters to the garrese.
DEFECTS : All us that discosta in connection with us that precedes must be considered like defect, than sar penalized in function to its gravit.