GENERAL APPEARANCE: The Spitz are noteworthy for their beautiful fur separately with the presence of a very dense undercoat. It is striking the neck surrounded by a heavy mane and tail covered with long hair, bent upward and extended boldly on the back. The head is fox-like eyes and small pointy ears diligent. The ears, placed very close together, give the characteristic appearance Spitz unwrapped.


Important Proportions: 1:1 ratio between height at withers and length of the dog.


BEHAVIOR / TEMPERAMENT: The German Spitz is always attentive, is active and exceptionally dependent on its master. You learn quickly and can be trained easily. His distrust of outsiders and their lack of interest by allowing hunting regarding him as the ideal watchdog for home and farm. Its most notable features are its resistance to weather, robustness and longevity.

HEAD

CRANIAL REGION:

Skull: The skull is of medium size Spitz, seen from above seems to expand by becoming more narrow back wedge to the tip of the nose.

Frontal-nasal depression (stop): Shallow to marked, never abrupt.

FACIAL REGION:

Nose: Round, small and black in all brown Spitz is dark brown.

Muzzle: Not too long, neither stout nor pointed, has a good proportion in relation to the skull (in the wolf type Spitz / Keeshond, Spitz at large and the medium's relationship Spitz muzzle / skull is approximately 2 / 3, the Spitz Spitz small and the dwarf / Pomeranian is about 2 / 4).

Lips: Not pendulous; stick well and do not form folds at the corners. In all colors are black, in brown Spitz are brown.

Jaws / Teeth: The jaws develop normally and show a complete scissor bite with 42 teeth, ie upper incisors closely fall ahead of the lower teeth being implanted perpendicularly to the jaws. In small and dwarf Spitz / Pomeranian is tolerable loss of a few promolares. It allows a pincer bite in all varieties of Spitz.

Cheeks: The cheeks are gently rounded and not prominent.

Eyes: The eyes are medium sized, elongated, slightly tapering, dark color. The lids have a black pigmentation in all varieties of color and are only dark brown in brown Spitz variety.

Ears: The pointy ears sharpened to form a triangle are small and rather closely placed together. Its insertion is high. Always remain upright with the tip rigid.


NECK: The neck is fairly long and has a broad attachment to the shoulders in the neck is slightly convex, without a double chin and hair covered with a shaped collar.


BODY

Topline: The topline starts at the tips of erect ears and passes as a gentle arc on the back short and straight. Spread tail and abundant hair partially covers the back and rounded silhouette.

Cross / Back: The high cross back down imperceptibly into short, straight and strong.

Loin: Short, broad and strong.

Croup: The croup is broad and short, not up.

Chest: deep, well sprung, the sill is well developed.

Underline and belly: The chest is expanded as much as possible back, the abdomen is moderately tucked up.


TAIL: Set high and has a medium length, is bent up from the ground and rolled on her back spreading steadily. Well covered with thick hair. A double loop at the tip of the tail is acceptable.


TIPS

LIMBS:

Overall: Straight, broad at the front.

Shoulders: The shoulder blade is long, placed obliquely backward. The arm, which shows almost the same length, shape and shoulder blade at an angle of about 90 degrees. The shoulders are well muscled closely united with the thorax.

Arm: Medium length, strong and absolutely straight in relation to the trunk, covered with enough hair in the form of feathers in the posterior region.

Elbow: The elbow joint is strong, close to the chest without twisting inward or outward.

Metacarpus: The pastern strong and of medium length, forming an angle of approximately 20 ° relative to the perpendicular line.

Front feet: The front feet are as small as possible, round and compact, like cat feet with well arched toes. Nails and pads are black in all varieties of Spitz, and are only dark brown in brown dogs.

Hindquarters:

General: The hindquarters are very muscular, covered with fairly long hair down the hock joint. The hind legs are straight and parallel.

Thigh and leg: They have approximately the same length.

Knee: The knee joint is strong, slightly bent and, during movement, no twisting inward or outward.

Hock: Medium length, very strong, holds a position perpendicular to the ground.

Hind feet: The feet of the hind legs are as small as possible, round, toes tight and arched like cat feet. The pads are hard. The color of the nails and pads is as dark as possible.

MOTION: The Spitz moves with enough coordination, with a good drive and almost floating on the trot.

Skin: The skin should be well attached to the body without wrinkling.




COAT

HAIR: The Spitz have a double layer covered with hair: the outer coat of long hair, straight and separated and the inner layer of hair is short, dense and woolly. The head, ears, front of fore and hind legs and feet are covered with short hair and thick (velvety). The rest of the body has long hair and abundant. The hair should not be wavy, Chinese, or matted form, nor should submit a stripe on the back. A thick mane covering the neck and shoulders. The back of the forelegs shows feathery hair. The hindquarters should be covered with long hair from the rump to the hocks. The tail should be covered with long and abundant hair.

COLOR:

a) wolf type Spitz / Keeshond / Wolfspitz: Greyish.
b) large Spitz / Grosspitz: Black, brown, white.
c) Spitz medium / Mittelspitz: Black, brown, white, orange, gray, other colors.
d) small Spitz / Kleinspitz: Black, brown, white, orange, gray, other colors.
e) Dwarf Spitz / Pomeranian / Zwergspitz: Black, brown, white, orange, gray, other colors.
Black Spitz: The coat of the black Spitz should be dark in both the undercoat and skin and the color of the outer coat should be jet black with no white spots.
Brown Spitz: The brown Spitz should have a uniform dark brown.
White Spitz: The coat should be pure white without yellow tones that can occur frequently in the ears.
Orange Spitz: The orange Spitz should have a single uniform color in the average range of RAL (International Register of the Scale of colors).
Grayish Spitz / Keeshond: Off-white is defined as silver-gray hair with black tips. Muzzle and ears are dark. Around the eyes was a drawing in the form of glasses consisting of a delicate black line (which extends from the outer corner of the eye to the bottom of the insertion of the ear) or dashed lines and shading to draw eyebrows short but expressive. Mane and ring shoulders are of a light shade. The front and rear are silvery gray without black marks below the elbows and knees, but delicate stripes on toes (pencilling). The tip of the tail is black. The underside of the tail and buttocks are light silver gray.
Spitz other colors: Under this description includes all shades as: cream, cream-sable, orange-sable, black and tan and brindle. The stained must have a white background. The spots of black, brown, gray or orange should be distributed throughout the body.


SIZE AND WEIGHT

Height at withers:

a) wolf type Spitz / Keeshond / Wolfspitz: 49 cm ± 6 cm
b) large Spitz / Grosspitz: 46 cm ± 4 cm
c) Spitz medium / Mittelspitz: 34 cm ± 4 cm
d) small Spitz / Kleinspitz: 26 cm ± 3 cm
e) Dwarf Spitz / Pomeranian / Zwergspitz: 20 cm ± 2 cm (are undesirable individuals that are less than 18 cm)

WEIGHT: Any variation in the size of German Spitz should have a corresponding change in weight.


FAULTS: Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which it is considered the degree of deviation from the standard.

FAULTS:

· Defects in the constitution.
· Head too flat or sharp apple shape.
Nose, eyes and flesh-colored lips.
· Defects in premolars in wolf Spitz / Keeshond, Spitz medium and large.
· Eyes too big or too light or outgoing.
· Defects in the movement.
· Absence of classical drawing in Spitz gray face.

ELIMINATING FAULTS:

· Open fontanel.
· Overshot or undershot.
Entropion or ectropion.
Ears falls.
· White spots visible in all non-white Spitz.

NB : Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.