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| HEIGHT: 51 cm. |
| WEIGHT: 25 - 30 kg. |
| LIFE EXPECTANCY: 13 - 15 years. |
| DESCRIPTION Breton Epagneuil Dogs |
| ADVICE 604 |
| Even though this dog has a place of importance as a company dog, it is still a dog that outstands widely for its outdoor activities, where it shows each and every one of its qualities. |
| ADVICE 605 |
| With an intelligent character, trainable, sweet, expansive and playful. |
| ADVICE 606 |
| It can be shy when they are treated with rude manners. |
| ADVICE 607 |
| Adequate for any kind of land; resistant to cold and humidity. |
| ADVICE 608 |
| It is always active, enthusiastic and tireless. It also has an excellent retrieving instinct in water. |
| ADVICE 609 |
| This dog is very popular among millions of people, not only for its hunting qualities, but also for its middle size what allows an easy transportation. |
| ADVICE 610 |
| Due to the joyfulness of its character, this dog has gained a lot of sympathies as a company dog, even being always a good sport dog, it gets easily adapted to the life in an apartment. |
| CHARACTERISTICS a Breton Epagneuil Dog |
| SKULL: |
| Of a medium length, rounded, with rounded and marked lateral walks. The stop is pretty marked, but with a soft fall. |
| SNOUT: |
| Shorter than the skull, straight or slightly concave. Its length is 2 to 3 in relation with this (if we would divide the truffle in five parts, three of them correspond to the skull, from the occipital to the stop, and the two spare ones, to the snout). |
| TRUFFLE: |
| The truffle is darker than the spots of the body, even if the dog is white and orange, white and brown or black and white. Its lips are fine and pretty extended. The upper lips barely surpass the lower one. |
| EYES: |
| Dark amber in harmony with the colors of the coat, lively and expressive. |
| EARS: |
| Placed high, kind of short, slightly rounded, with only little fringes but well covered with curly hair. |
| NECK: |
| Medium length well placed between the shoulders with no double chin. |
| THORAX: |
| Deep, descending to the level of the elbow, ribs arched and wide enough. |
| BACK: |
| Short, very high cross, never long. |
| TAIL: |
| Straight or fallen. Always short, around 10 cm. often kind of twisted. It ends in a large lock of hair. It shouldn't be long or hairless. |
| FRONT EXTREMITIES: |
| Firm, with kind of oblique bones, thin and muscular, with rare and curly fringes. The bones should not be too straight; it is not convenient for them to be too oblique of with no fringes. |
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| BACK EXTREMITIES: |
| Wide buttocks, long and muscular, hock and tip of the buttock in the same vertical. The member should be provided with abundant curly fringes 'till the middle. Firm, with the hock not too angled. They should not have straight buttocks, with no fringes, or too oblique. |
| SKIN: |
| Thin and kind of elastic, but not too much. Not thick either. |
| HAIR: |
| The hair of the body should be fine, straight and kind of curly. |
| COAT: |
| White and orange;; white and black; tricolor or ruan with one of these colors. |
| SIZE: |
| The height to the cross in males is 51 cm; in females; 47cm. The weight is among 25 and 30 kg. |
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