British timber dog breed standard Controversial

I wonder what a to breed standard dog actually looks like

Below taken from here http://www.britishtimberdog.org.uk/breedstandard.html

GENERAL APPEARANCE

The British Timber Dog is a powerful, Wolfish course haired dog. The legs are long without the dog giving a long legged impression.

PROPORTION

The British Timber Dog is longer than it is high. The upper jaw and skull keep closed to each other.

HEAD

The head must give a Wolf-like impression and its size must be in harmony with the body. The skull is broad and smooth with a light curvature in between the ears and it is gradually wedge shaped towards the eyes.

EYE

The eyes are medium-sized, almond shaped and slightly inclining, preferably yellow.

EARS

The ears are erected and medium sized and end up slightly pointed from a wide basis. They are fleshy, triangular with a rounded tip, well haired on the inside and slightly inclining.

NECK

The neck is well musculared and gradually passes into the rump.

BODY

The Rump are slightly more long than the height of the dog (measured at the withers)

BACK

The back is straight and strong, the loin is powerful and muscular.

UNDERLINE

Straight line and strongly.

ROD

The tail is joined rather deep and carried in the shape of a Sabre when in rest and does not show much movement. The British Timber dog can carry its tail in upward position when in movement and when showing dominant behaviour.

FORELEGS

The fore legs are well-hooked with straight legs and elastic metatarsus. A slightly outwards position of the fore feet is allowed.

BACK LEGS

The back leg is normally hooked, powerful and muscular.

FEET

The feet are slightly oval, and webbed.

GAIT

A typical persistent trotter, who can trot in its characteristic speed comfortably large distances. The gait of the British Timber Dog is light and loose and flexible but cautious, so that a quick change of speed is possible. The gait is very typical and resembles that of a wolf.

COLOUR

From light to dark shaded black-aguticoloured Wolfsgrey.

From light to dark shaded brown.

This standard will develop as we introduce original breeds to expand our gene pool.

...if only i could draw lmao... oh dear lol.

Quite scary the image I have in my mind

Please can somebody explain the shocking wording, spelling and how ANY living creature could possibly exist if it even resembled those points I have highlighted.

no problem...



eta - do read the breed standard. It`s very entertaining. I particularly enjoyed learning that the ears were erected and that this is a persistant trotter.

I almost choked on my coffeee Claire!

But seriously though, what on earth?

Sounds like a translation from another language by someone who doesn't speak English

Just seen an ad, they cost £1,250

OMG

...well,that price proves its just a money making scheme :-(

Cute pups! Very expensive though, I assume they are simialr to inuits ect.

Adam

Hey there is a box you can tick underneath to let folk know its a bargain!!!

Oh dear God, disgusting, another case of people being conned for posh named crossbreeds,with stupid price tags. There are so many husky,mal, NI, Ute,and other wolfy type named crossbreeds and their crosses in rescue, why would you buy one at that price???:?

Are these the ones that are N.I X CWD, love how they are described as family pets

Is it just me, or does that pup look undershot in that photo?

Well looking at the web site looks like two people with NI going it alone.
Some of the photos where the dogs are meant to be all wolfy looking. They just look like they need a good brush

Just had a look & it says mum & dad were in this Eclipse promotional video. Not trying to cash in on that then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qeE_uQAK8

Oh dear

Well considering how appallingly amature and gramatically incorrect that standard is it just shows you the lack of education and poor mentality of the people involved in this type of dog

Would that be immature, or even amateur and grammatically incorrect, oops, seems I can spell and I have NI, whaddya know;-)

Terrible That breed standard doesn't even make sense - I'm no expert on writing breed standards but I do know English...

I looked on their gallery, some of them are from early NI/Ute dogs, just changing the name again I see