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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Characteristics | combination of type, appearance, disposition & behavior.3 |
| Chiseled | – clean cut, showing bone structure of face |
| Chops | – jowls or pendulous flesh of the lips and jaw |
| Cloddy | – thickset, comparatively heavy |
| Coarse | – lacking refinement |
| Coat | – the hairy outer covering of the skin. Many breeds have two coats, and outer and an undercoat. |
| Cobby | – short-bodied, compact |
| Collar | – marking around the neck, usually white |
| Compact | – closely put together, not rangy. Neat |
| Condition | – health as shown by the body, coat, general appearance and deportment. Denoting overall fitness |
| Conformation | – the form and structure, physique |
| Conjunctiva | – thin membrane lining the inner surface of eyelids and reflected over eyeball |
| Corkscrew tail | – twisted tail, not straight |
| Crabbing | – dog moves with body at an angle to the line of travel |
| Crank tail | – sharply bent or angled tail |
| Crest | – 1. Upper, arched portion of the neck. 2. Hair starting at stop on head and tapering off down neck |
| Crown | – 1. Highest part of the head 2. Circular formations of hair at front of ridge as on the Rhodesian Ridgeback |
| Cryptorchid | – male dog without testicles fully descended into the scrotum |
| Dentintion | – the number and arrangement of teeth. The total number of teeth is forty two, made up of – upper jaw, six incisors, two canines (eye teeth), eight premolars and four molars -lower jaw, six incisors, two canines, eight premolars and six molars |
| Dewclaw | – first digit on the inside of pastern. Most breeds do not have rear dewclaws but some breeds require double rear dew claws. |
| Dewlap | – loose, pendulous skin under the throat |
| Dish-faced | – when the nasal bone is so formed that the nose is higher at the tip than at the stop’ or, a slight concavity of the line from the stop to the nose tip |
| Dock | – to shorten the tail |
| Down on Pastern | – weak or faulty pastern set at an exaggerated angle from the vertical |
| Drive | – powerful thrusting of the hindquarters denoting sound locomotion |
| DRY | – the skin smooth, neither loose nor wrinkled. |
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