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The
Current Profile of the Presa Canario
The
Presa Canario is an animal of medium type. He has a rustic and
robust appearance and is mesomophoric, in a rectangular
shape that provides him great flexibility. Endowed with good
musculature, conferring the power of a guard dog, their limbs
have good forequarters separated from each other giving necessary
stability.
He should have a good front, with cylindrical ribs. The
breastbone should descend to the height of the elbow. The medium
size should be 61-66 centimeters in the males and 57-62 in
the females. The front limbs should be thick and separate, never
hitting the body. The hind should have good muscular
development, long legs with low hocks, a wide croup and a very
high implantation of the tail, which should be thick in the
origin and at rest comes to the height of the hock. His
dorsolumbar line is ascending to the croup.
The head is solid, of square aspect, wide cranium and proportionate. The
cranium convex with the nasofrontal
depression not very abrupt , depression between the frontal
sinuses very pronounced, wrinkles with certain symmetry and mastoid and temporal muscles should be proportional and not
stand out. The face or muzzle represents 40% of the total of the
head with medium thick and fleshy lips covering the superior
to the inferior [jaws] with certain flaccidity.
The teeth are well assembled, with a base of very strong
implantation and bite in scissors or inverted scissors. The tongue
should present well marked grooves and be of rosy tone. The eyes
should be slightly oval, almond-shaped, big, very separate,
with tight lids and pigmentation in the most dark black possible.
The conjunctiva should not be visible. The ears are of small size, of high implantation and preferably
clipped they
should remain erect and of triangular form. The neck, short and with the loose
skin
forming a slight jowl, is cylindrical, straight, solid,
muscular.
The hair, of rustic appearance, generally short in all over but
is denser at the throat, neck and crest of the
buttocks. The most desirable color is the striped in
all their ranges,to bardino, as well as the tawny. Accepted is the presence
of white marks on the neck, chest, hands and feet. The black
color is accepted, although it's not very frequent*.
*note- this article
was written prior to the FCI recognition of the breed. The
black coat is unacceptable as of June 2001
Translated
Haridian, Club Espaņol del Presa Canario
Miguel Angel Gonzales
[1998]
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