Chows Currently Available

2 Males: 1 Red and 1 Black.
1 Female: Black.
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Genaral Information on Chow Chow.

Genaral Appearance:
Active, compact, short-coupled and essentially well balanced, leonine in appearance, proud, dignified bearing, well knit frame, tail carried over back.

Characteristics:
Quiet dog, dood gaurd, bluish-black tongue, unique in its stilted gait.

Temperament:
Independent, loyal, yet aloof.

Head & Skull:
Skull flat, broad, stop not pronounced, well filled out under eyes.  Muzzle moderate in lengh, broad from eyes to end (not pointed at end like fox).  Nose, large and wide in all cases, black (with exception of cream and near white in which case a light-coloured nose permissible, and in blues and fawns a self-coloured nose).

Eyes:
Dark, oval shaped, medium sized and clean.  A matching coloured eye permissible in blues and fawns.  Clean eye, free from entropion, never being penalised for sake of mere size.

Ears:
Small, thick, slightly rounded at tip, carried stiffly and wide apart but tilting well forward over eyes and slightly towards each other, giving peculiar characteristic scowling expression of the breed.  Scowl never to be achieved by loose wrinkled skin of head.

Mouth:
Teeth strong and level, jaws strong, with a perfect regular and complete scissor bite,  i.e. upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set sqaure to the jaws.  Tongue bluish black.  Roof of mouth and flews black (blue black), gums perfectly black.

Neck:
Strong, full, not short, set well on shoulders and slightly arched.

Forequarters:
Shoulders muscular and sloping.  Forelegs perfectly straight, of moderate lengh, with good bone.

Body:
Chest broad and deep.  Ribs well sprung but not barrelled.  Back short, level and strong.  Loins powerfull.

Hindquarters:
Hindlegs muscular, hocks well let down, with minimal angulation, essential to produce characteristic stilted gait.  From hocks downwards to appear straight, hocks never flexing forward.

Feet:
Small, round, cat-like, standing well on toes.

Tail:
Set high, carried well over back.

Gait/Movement:
Short and stilted.  Forelegs and hindlegs moving parallel to each other and straight forward.

Coat:
Either rough or smooth.
Rough: Profuse, abundant, dense, straight and stand-off.  Outer coat rather coarse in texture, with sofl woolly undercoat.  Especially thick round neck forming mane or ruff and with good culottes or breechings on back of thighs.
Smooth: Coat short, abundant, dense, straight, upstanding, not flat, plush-like in texture.

Colour:
Whole coloured black, red, blue, fawn, cream or white, frequently shaded but not in patches or parti-coloured (underpart of tail and back of thighs frequently of a lighter colour).

Size:
Dogs:               48 - 56 cm (19 - 22 in) at shoulder.
Bitches:          46 - 51 cm (18 - 20 in) at shoulder.