FCI standard 370

Valencian Terrier.

FCI 370 utilization: ancestrally dedicated to the traditional hunting of the water rat, rabbits and moles; also a guard dog able to warn by barking, and now a companion dog (Group 3 Section 1, without working trial). Temperament: lively, happy and active; brave in hunting and in defence of the owners' property; reserved with strangers; learns fast. History: documented in the Valencian Community since the last third of the 19th century and valued on orange-growing farms and fields for the instinct to warn of and hunt vermin; other names Rateret and Fusterrier. Wikipedia: traditionally used to catch rats and other rodents..

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14 / 13INHeightdogs 14.2, bitches 13. An ideal from the standard, not a range.

9–18LBWeight, all linesbreed 8.8 to 17.6 lb.

The body

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

Height at the shoulder

dogs 14.2 in (11.8 to 15.7) · bitches 13 in (11.4 to 15)

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 370, 2022

Center is the ideal the FCI standard prints (33 cm).

Weight

8.8 to 17.6 lb

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 370, 2022

One breed-wide range, no ideal printed.

Coat

FCI 370: thin and short, no longer than 2 cm; spotted coats dominate, tricolour (black-tan with white spots) most common, then black-tan, black-white, cinnamon-white, chocolate-tan and chocolate-white; solid cinnamon or black also seen. Long or curly hair is a severe fault. Wikipedia: the same, short, no longer than 2 cm, most commonly tricolor.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 370, 2022

Heat tolerance

5 of 5 · FCI 370: thin, short coat no longer than 2 cm, on very thin skin close to the body.

DerivedFCI-Standard N° 370, 2022

Derived from the standard's coat (very short, single = 5). 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° 370, 2022

Primary game

Water rat. FCI 370 utilization: the traditional hunting of the water rat, rabbits and moles. Wikipedia (English): rats and other rodents. Wikipedia (Spanish): rodents in the stables and water rats (rice rats, Arvicola) around the Albufera, hunted September to February.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 370, 2022

Registry and editorial agree on the quarry.

Also used on

Rabbits and moles. FCI 370 utilization lists rabbits and moles beside the water rat; Wikipedia (English, citing the breed club history): used in hunting, specifically for rabbits. Wikipedia (Spanish): also used on thrush shoots (tiradas de zorzales) and rabbit hunting, popular for its interest in the quarry and lack of fatigue.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 370, 2022

Search pattern

Wikipedia (Spanish): in the rice fields around the Albufera the farmer works with the dog and a long iron hook, with a funnel net staked at the burrow mouth; the dog drives the water rats out of the burrow into the net while the hunter kills them, and sometimes the dog itself faces and catches the rat. Single dog working with a hunter. FCI 370 prints no search pattern.

EditorialWikipedia en español

One editorial source (Spanish Wikipedia); no registry or club text states the working method.

Field trial standard

FCI 370: Group 3 Terriers, Section 1 large and medium-sized, without working trial. FCI faults are judged against the dog's ability to perform its traditional work.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 370, 2022

How to read this page

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Also called: Gos Rater Valencià, Ratonero Valenciano, Rateret, Fusterrier

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