Color: Steel gray with brown patches or self-colored brown often mixed
with grey hairs. Also white, grey with brown, or grey with yellow
patches.
Height: 24 in.
Weight: 56 lbs.
This dog is of medium size, symmetrical and well built. The head is
heavy and long, covered with wiry hair not too long, but there should be
a good moustache and eyebrows. The muzzle is long and square, nasal bone
convex and the stop not too abrupt. The eyes are large, very intelligent
in expression and brown or dark yellow in color. The nose is always
brown. Ears of medium size, set on not too low, carried close to the
head. The back strong and well developed and the forelegs straight,
muscular and covered with wiry hair. The stern is carried straight out
and is covered with wiry hair but without feather. About a third of the
stern is generally docked. The coat is wiry, crisp and harsh like fine
iron wire, never curly or woolly. Undercoat is dense and soft.
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