| FCI-Standard N° 122 / 29. 01. 1999 / GB
LABRADOR RETIEVER |
| ORIGIN : Great Britain. |
| DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 24.06.1987. |
| UTILIZATION : Retriever. |
| CLASSIFICATION F.C.I. : Group 8 Retrievers, Flushing Dogs, Water Dogs. Section 1 Retrievers. With working trial. |
| GENERAL APPEARANCE : Strongly built, short-coupled, very active; broad in skull; broad and deep through chest and ribs; broad and strong over loins and hindquarters. |
| BEHAVIOUR / TEMPERAMENT : Good-tempered, very agile. Excellent nose, soft mouth; keen lover of water. Adaptable, devoted companion. Intelligent, keen and biddable, with a strong will to please. Kindly nature, with no trace of aggression or undue shyness. |
| HEAD CRANIAL REGION : Skull : Broad. Clean-cut without fleshy cheeks. Stop : Defined. |
| FACIAL REGION : Nose : Wide, nostrils well developed. Muzzle : Powerful, not snipey. Jaws/Teeth : Jaws of medium length, jaws and teeth strong with a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, i.e. upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set square to the jaws. Eyes : Medium size, expressing intelligence and good temper; brown or hazel. Ears : Not large or heavy, hanging close to head and set rather far back. |
| NECK : Clean, strong, powerful, set into well placed shoulders. |
| BODY : Back : Level topline. Loins : Wide, short-coupled and strong. Chest : Of good width and depth, with well sprung barrel ribs. |
| TAIL : Distinctive feature, very thick towards the base, gradually tapering towards tip, medium length, free from feathering, but clothed thickly all round with short, thick, dense coat, thus giving « rounded » appearance described as « Otter » tail. May be carried gaily, but should not curl over back. |