The Boston Terrier and All About It Part 2

SECTION 1. The entrance fee shall be five dollars, which must accompany the application for members.h.i.+p.

SEC. 2. The annual dues shall be ten dollars, payable upon notice of election and at each annual meeting thereafter.

ARTICLE IV.

JUDGES.

SECTION 1. There shall be elected by ballot each year at the annual meeting a corps of not more than fifteen judges, a list of whose names shall be sent to bench show committees with a request that the judge of Boston terriers at their approaching shows be selected from said list.

SEC. 2. The Club judges may exhibit, but shall not compete at or be interested directly or indirectly in the show at which they officiate.

ARTICLE V.

AMENDMENTS.

This Const.i.tution and these By-Laws, and the Standard and Scale of Points may be amended or altered by a two-thirds vote at any regular meeting or special meeting called for that purpose.

Notice of proposed change having been given to all members at least ten days previous to said meeting.

THE REVISED BOSTON TERRIER STANDARD

The present Boston terrier standard was adopted by the Boston Terrier Club on October 7, 1914, as a result of a revision recommended by a committee appointed by the Boston Terrier Club.

It was felt, in view of the fact that the dog had become established all over the continent among breeders and fanciers not as familiar with the ideal of the breed as were the original breeders and friends of the dog around Boston, that a more explicit, definite standard, one that could be more easily understood by the great body of the dog's admirers of today, should be adopted.

It will be readily observed by a comparison of the old standard, which has practically been in existence since the formation of the club in 1891, that no vital point has been really changed.

REVISED STANDARD OLD STANDARD.

Point Values Scale of Points.

10 GENERAL APPEARANCE: The 10 GENERAL APPEARANCE AND general appearance of STYLE: The general the Boston terrier appearance of the Boston should be that of a Terrier is that of a lively, highly smooth, short-coated, intelligent, smooth compactly-built dog of coated, short headed, medium station. The head compactly built, short should indicate a high tailed, well balanced degree of intelligence and dog of medium station, should be in proportion to of brindle color and the dog's size; the body evenly marked with rather short and white. The head should well-knit, the limbs indicate a high degree strong and finely turned, of intelligence and no feature being so should be in proportion prominent that the dog to the size of the dog; appears badly the body rather short proportioned. The dog and well knit, the limbs conveys an impression of strong and neatly determination, strength turned; tail short and and activity. Style of a no feature being so high order, and carriage prominent that the dog easy and graceful.

appears badly proportioned. The dog should convey an impression of determination, strength and activity, with style of a high order; carriage easy and graceful. A proportionate combination of "Color"

and "Ideal Markings" is a particularly distinctive feature of a representative specimen, and dogs with a preponderance of white on body, or without the proper proportion of brindle and white on head, should possess sufficient merit otherwise to counteract their deficiencies in these respects.

The ideal "Boston Terrier Expression" as indicating "a high degree of intelligence,"

is also an important characteristic of the breed.

"Color and Markings" and "Expression" should be given particular consideration in determining the relative value of "General Appearance" to other points.

12 SKULL: Square, flat on 12 SKULL: Broad and flat, top, free from wrinkles; without prominent cheeks, cheeks flat; brow abrupt, and forehead free from stop well defined. wrinkles.

2 STOP: Well defined, but indenture not too deep.

5 EYES: Wide apart, large 5 EYES: Wide apart, large and and round, dark in round, neither sunken nor too color, expression alert, prominent, and in color dark but kind and and soft. The outside corner intelligent; the eyes should be on a line with the should set square across cheeks as viewed from the brow and the outside front.

corners should be on a line with the cheeks as viewed from the front.

12 MUZZLE: Short, square, 12 MUZZLE: Short, square, wide and deep; free from wide and deep, without wrinkles; shorter in wrinkles. Nose black and length than in width and wide, with a well defined depth, and in proportion straight line between to skull; width and nostrils. The jaws broad depth carried out well and square, with short, to end. Nose black and regular teeth. The chops wide, with well defined wide and deep, not line between nostrils. pendulous, completely The jaws broad and covering the teeth when square, with short mouth is closed.

regular teeth. The chops of good depth, but not pendulous, completely covering the teeth when mouth is closed. The muzzle should not exceed in approximate length one-third of length of skull.

2 EARS: Small and thin, 2 EARS: Small and thin, situated as near corners situated as near corners of skull as possible. of skull as possible.

HEAD FAULTS: Skull "domed" or inclined; furrowed by a medial line; skull too long for breadth, or vice versa; stop too shallow; brow and skull too slanting.

Eyes small or sunken; too prominent; light color; showing too much white or haw. Muzzle wedge shaped or lacking depth; down faced; too much cut out below the eyes; pinched nostrils; protruding teeth; weak lower jaw; showing "turn up." Poorly carried ears or out of proportion.

3 NECK: Of fair length, 5 NECK: Of fair length, slightly arched and without throatiness and carrying the head slightly arched.

gracefully; setting neatly into shoulders.

NECK FAULTS: Ewe-necked; throatiness; short and thick.

15 BODY: Deep with good 15 BODY: Deep and broad of width of chest; chest, well ribbed up.

shoulders sloping; back Back short, not roached.

short; ribs deep and Loins and quarters strong.

well sprung, carried well back of loins; loins short and muscular; rump curving slightly to set-on of tail. Flank slightly cut up. The body should appear short, but not chunky.

BODY FAULTS: Flat sides; narrow chest; long or slack loins; roach back; sway back; too much cut up in flank.

4 ELBOWS: Standing 2 ELBOWS: Standing neither neither in nor out. in nor out.

5 FORELEGS: Set moderately 4 FORELEGS: Wide apart, wide apart and on a line straight and well with the points of the muscled.

shoulders; straight in bone and well muscled; pasterns short and strong.

5 HINDLEGS: Set true; bent 4 HINDLEGS: Straight, at stifles; short from quite long from stifle hocks to feet; hocks to hock (which should turning neither in nor turn neither in nor out; thighs strong and out), short and straight well muscled. from hock to pasterns.

Thighs well muscled.

Hocks not too prominent.

5 FEET: Round, small and 2 FEET: Small, nearly compact, and turned round, and turned neither in nor out; toes neither in nor out. Toes well arched. compact and arched.

LEG AND FEET FAULTS: Loose shoulders or elbows; hind legs too straight at stifles; hocks too prominent; long or weak pasterns; splay feet.

5 TAIL: Set-on low; short, 10 TAIL: Set-on low, short, fine and tapering; fine and tapering, straight or screw; devoid of fringe or devoid of fringe or coa.r.s.e hair, and not coa.r.s.e hair, and not carried above the carried above horizontal.

horizontal.

TAIL FAULTS: A long or gaily carried tail; extremely gnarled or curled against body.

(Note: The preferred tail should not exceed in length approximately half the distance from set-on to hock.)

4 COLOR: Brindle with 8 COLOR: Any color, white markings. brindle, evenly marked with white, strongly preferred.

10 IDEAL MARKINGS: White 4 MARKINGS: White muzzle, even white blaze muzzle, blaze on face, over head, collar, collar, chest and feet.

breast, part or whole of forelegs and hindlegs below hocks.

COLOR AND MARKINGS FAULTS: All white; absence of white markings; preponderance of white on body; without the proper proportion of brindle and white on head; or any variations detracting from the general appearance.

3 COAT: Short, smooth, 3 COAT: Fine in texture, bright and fine in short, bright and not texture. too hard.