Standard and Description of Points 43 
ing the inner ear, front quarters and paws covered 
with short hair and the neck with longer and thicker 
hair. The fore and hind legs have a short feather 
extending to the pasterns and hock respectively. 
(Note—Length of coat varies. Too short a coat is 
a fault; the smooth coat which is too long collects 
dirt and indicates either a poor or absent undercoat. 
The undercoat should always be present and should 
be dense and form a real protection to the body. The 
amount of undercoat present will, of course, vary 
somewhat with the season and the proportion of his 
time which the dog spends out of doors.) 
14. Faults: 
(a) All physical defects which tend to lessen 
utility and endurance, especially a combination of 
short back and legginess. 
(b) Too clumsy or too fine a build. 
(c) Soft or sway-back. 
(d) Steep positions of the forequarter or hind- 
quarter assemblages or anything which would ad¬ 
versely affect the length or elasticity of the stride or 
running gear. 
(e) The coat too short or too soft or the under¬ 
coat lacking. 
(f) Skull too clumsy or shallow. 
(g) Muzzle too short and stumpy or too weak 
and pointed. 
(h) Mouth overshot or undershot. 
(i) Splay feet and long-coated paws. 
(j) Hanging ears. 
(k) Rolling, ring or badly carried tails. 
(l) Cropped ears or docked tails. 
