1909

Standard, or Scale of Points

Appearance – The Pomeranian in build and appearance should be a compact short-coupled dog, well-knit in frame. His head and face should be fox-like, with small, erect ears that appear sensible to every sound; he should exhibit great intelligence in his expression, docility in his disposition and activity and buoyancy in his deportment.

Head And Nose – The head and nose should be foxy in outline, or wedge-shaped, the skull being slightly flat, large in proportion to the muzzle, which should finish rather fine and free from lippiness. The teeth should be level and on no account undershot. The hair on the head and face should be smooth and short coated. The nose should be black in white, orange and shaded-sable dogs: but in other colours may be “self-coloured” but never parti-coloured.

Ears – The ears should be small, not set to wide apart, nor to low down but carried perfectly erect like those of a fox and like the head should be covered with short hair.

Eyes – The eyes should be medium in size, not full nor set to wide apart, bright and dark in colour, showing great intelligence. In a white, orange, shaded-sable and cream dogs, the  rims round the eyes should be black.

Neck and Body – The neck should be rather short and well set in. The back must be short and the body compact. Being well ribbed up and the barrel well rounded. The chest must be fairly deep and not too wide.

Legs – The forelegs must be well feathered and perfectly straight, of medium length and  not such as would be termed either “leggy” or “low on leg”, but in length and strength in due proportion to a well-balanced frame. The shoulders should be clean and well laid back. The hind legs and thighs must be well feathered down to the hocks and must be neither “cow-hocked” nor wide behind. They must be be fine in bone and free in action. The feet should be small and compact in shape.

Tail – The tail is one of the characteristics of the breed and should be turned over the back and carried flat and straight, being profusely covered with long, harsh, spreading hair.

Coat – There should be two coats - an under coat and an over coat; the one a soft fluffy under coat, the other a long, perfectly straight coat, harsh in texture and covering the whole of the body, being very abundant round the neck and fore part of the shoulders and chest, where it should form a frill of profuse, standing off straight hair, extending over the shoulders. The hindquarters should be clad with long hair or feathering, from the top of the rump to the hocks.

Colour – All whole colours are admissible but they should be free from white shadings. At present the whole coloured dogs are –

White,

 Black, 

 Brown, light or dark

 Blue, as pale as possible

Orange, which should be as deep and even in colour as possible.

Beaver,

Cream, which should have black noses and black rims around the eyes.

 Whites must be quite free from lemon or any colour. A few white hairs in any of the self-coloured dogs shall not neccesserily disqualify. Dogs other than white, with white or tan markings are decidedly objectionable and should be discouraged. They cannot compete as whole-coloured specimens. In parti-coloured dogs the colours should be evenly distributed on the body in patches; a dog with white or tan feet or chest would not be a parti-coloured dog. Shaded-sables should be shaded throughout with three or more colours, the hair to be as uniformly shaded as possible and with no patches of self-colour. In mixed classes, where whole-coloured and parti-coloured Pomeranians compete together, the preference should if in all other points they are equal, be given to the whole-coloured specimens.