UKC Terrier · FCI standard 308

Dutch Smoushond.

FCI 308 utilization: companion dog (Group 2 Section 1.3 Pinscher and Schnauzer type, without working trial); history: in the mid-nineteenth century the dogs followed horse and carriage and caught rats in the stables; sold as 'gentleman's stable dogs'. UKC: formerly a gentleman's stable dog or coach dog. Wikipedia: a small breed kept in stables to eliminate rats and mice..

Breed sets the odds. The parents set the dog. Every number here shows its source, its spread and how sure we are. Nothing on this page is a prediction about one dog.

0INHeightdogs null, bitches null. An ideal from the standard, not a range.

15–24LBWeight, all linesbreed 15.4 to 24.3 lb.

The body

What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.

Height at the shoulder

dogs 14 to 16.9 in · bitches 13.8 to 16.9 in

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 308, 2011

Low and high span UKC, FCI and the Wikipedia maximum (43 cm = 16.9 in); the UKC range is breed-wide.

Weight

15.4 to 24.3 lb

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 308, 2011

Low and high span UKC, FCI and Wikipedia; the FCI range is the widest.

Coat

FCI 308: coarse, wiry, harsh, straight, unkempt look, about 4 to 7 cm with sufficient undercoat; tendency to mat or a curly or woolly coat is undesirable; moustache, beard and eyebrows; legs slightly feathered. UKC: wiry, 1.5 to 2.5 in; any tendency to mat is a serious fault. Colour self-coloured yellow in all shades, dark straw preferred; UKC disqualifies any other colour. Wikipedia: waterproof, rough and shaggy, any shade of yellow.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 308, 2011

Heat tolerance

3 of 5 · FCI 308: coarse, wiry, harsh, straight body coat of about 4 to 7 cm with sufficient undercoat. UKC: coarse, wiry, harsh coat 1.5 to 2.5 in with sufficient undercoat. Wikipedia: waterproof, rough and shaggy coat.

DerivedFCI-Standard N° 308, 2011

Derived from the standard's coat (medium wiry coat with undercoat = 3). No measured data.

The work

What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.

Role

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 308, 2011

Primary game

Rats and mice in stables. FCI 308 history: dogs that followed horse and carriage and caught rats in the stables. Wikipedia: kept in stables to eliminate rats and mice.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 308, 2011

FCI history text plus Wikipedia; the FCI utilization line itself says companion dog.

Field trial standard

FCI 308: Group 2 Section 1.3, without working trial. UKC recognition 2006; Wikipedia places it in the UKC Terrier Group. No working test page was read.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 308, 2011

How to read this page

Every value carries a label. Measured means peer-reviewed data on many dogs. Studied means peer-reviewed, smaller or indirect. Breed club means a club or registry states it. Editorial means expert opinion with no measurement behind it. Where two good sources disagree, both are shown and neither is averaged.

Published when the entry rests on the best information available from no fewer than three independent sources, checked by a second pass that did not write it. 1 sources on this page. Found something wrong? Tell us and the correction is logged with its date.

Also called: Hollandse Smoushond, Dutch Ratter

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