COATS & DETAILS. 10% OF POINTS.
Housedogs may be identified by coat varieties.
All dogs must compete in one coat class, but may choose which one to enter.
The judge should have grooming experience for a variety of different coat types.
The dogs should be judged on how their coat is now, not on potential.
The coats should be washed, free of tangles and mats, dead undercoat should have been removed so the dog is not shedding.
The skin should be clean, with no soap left on it, no rashes, scratches, cuts, or bites.
The dog should be free of bug bites, insects, insect droppings, blood, pimples, scabs, or other imperfections, except healed scars are allowed.
The dog should be free of mud, dirt, dead grass, algae, pollen, loose dander, spilt foods, and other such items.
The dogs coat and skin should smell clean, but not perfumed.
The dogs ears must be clean inside and out. The ears should have been cleaned gently with no scratches, abrasions or injury. The ears must be dry, inside and out.
Hairs that clog the inside of the ear must have been removed. A small amount of clean ear wax is allowed. The ear should smell clean, but not perfumed.
If there are injuries to the ear, they should be fully healed.
The ears should NOT have been cropped, or the tail docked, but dewclaws may or may not have been removed.
Toenails that have not worn down naturally, should have been clipped, but not below the quick. The tips should be rounded not sharp or jagged. The toes and toenails should not be injured, unless the injury is fully healed.
There should be no hairs which interfer with the normal walking of the dog, nor any mud, iceballs, or other debris on the paws.
The teeth should be clean, with allowences for age. The teeth should be healthy with no cracks, chips, or problems, except those which have been corrected.
Missing teeth are acceptable, provided that pieces were not left below the gumline.
Broken teeth are not allowed, but allowance may be made, at the judges discression, for broken teeth if they have been permanantly cared for by a veterinarian, like with gold teeth caps.
The mouth should smell clean, but not perfumed.
The gums should not be pale or reddened, and should have a normal capillary refill time.
The tongue should be healthy and have no injuries unless healed.
The eyes should be healthy and without discharge. Clogged tear drainage is a fault, not keeping the fur clean where the tears spills out onto the fur, instead of draining internally, is a grooming fault as well as a physical fault.
The anal gland should have been emptied, and no trace or scent of their fluid remaining which can be detected by people. The anal gland should not be abnormal, and there should be no discharge or sign of discharge from the anus visable on the dog.
A male dog may compete equally whether neutered or intact. He should have no discharge from his male parts. If neutered, he should be fully healed. If intact, his scrotum should be healthy.
Dogs should have no sign of hernias or visable tumors, but the coat judge need not be a veterinarian, and is not responsible to find medical conditions.
The skin of the sheath shall not extend beyond what is normal for a male dog, nor constrict at the end. The shealth must not extend too far, or hang downward at the tip. The sheath must not be dipped so that fluid accumulates.
Female dogs may compete equally if spayed or whole, but in season, pregnant, or nursing mothers may not compete.
No dogs may compete if they have a discharge from a breast. Hanging breast or teats will not count against a female dog, so long as they are not inflamed, or containing fluid or lumps.
A dog of any gender which is sexually attractive to a variety of normal intact males may not compete.
Any dog which tries to bite, snap, growl at, lounge at, or fight a person or other animal will be disqualified and must leave the show grounds immediately, and may not ever enter a show again unless formally re-approved.
The dogs should be friendly or calm with the judge.
The dog must co-operate with or allow himself to be examined including the topside and belly side, as well as having his mouth, face, ears, eyes, feet, tail, and sexual parts examined.
If all other things are equal or average out about the same, the quality of the coat will be the deciding factor.
If all dogs were physically or behaviorly disallowed or faulty, the judge will not give any points.
Each dog may enter any any one coat class per show, as follows:
* All coats. (open to all dogs).
* Non-shedding coats (open to all kinds of non-shedding coats).
* Barbered coat. (Dogs shown with styled clips).
* Oodle coat (Poodlish coats).
* Curly coat (includes all curly coats).
* Shaggy coat. (Long, heavy).
* Bearded coat (Hair on muzzle).
* Wiry coat (includes naturally scruffy or wiry).
* Stripped coats. (Dogs shown with stripped coats.)
* Silkcoat (Long straight coat, or ‘feathered’ coat).* Warm coat (Thick undercoat).
* Cleancut coat (Very short hairs on muzzle, naturally only).
* Rain coat (Water repellant topcoat with at least some undercoat).
* Slick coat (Very short).
* Hairless coat (includes partially hairless).
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