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For all those that entered the name the puppy competition this is the papers of the red puppy

SOVERENSTAFF RED REBEL.

Congratulations to the winners of name the puppy.

Thank you to all who entered the competition, there can only be 3 winners but you all had fantastic names, well done everyone!

1st place with 26 votes; RED REBEL  - FLOYD - CONGRATULATIONS DEB!

2ND Place with 19 votes;  CRACKER JACK - EFFIE - WELL DONE

3RD place with 19 votes; JACK'S PRIDE - BEAU - WELL DONE

 

could all winners send their names and address to this email address.

Julie

enquiries@soverenstaff.com

 

 

1948 BREED STANDARD GENERAL APPEARANCE

Smooth coated, well balanced, of great strength for his size. Muscular, active and agile.

 

CHARACTERISTICS

Traditionally of indomitable courage and tenacity. Highly intelligent and affectionate, especially with children.

 

TEMPERAMENT

Bold, fearless and totally reliable.

 

HEAD AND SKULL

Short, deep through with broad skull. Very pronounced cheek muscles. Distinct stop. Short foreface, nose black.

 

EYES

Dark preferred but may bear some relation to coat colour. Round, of medium size, set to look straight ahead. Eye rims dark.

 

EARS

Rose or half pricked, not large or heavy. Full drop or pricked ears highly undesirable.

 

MOUTH

Lips tight and clean. Jaws strong. Teeth large with a perfect, regular and comlete scissor bite, ie: upper teeth closely overlapping the lower teeth and set square to the jaws.

 

NECK

Muscular, rather short, clean in outline gradually widening towards the shoulder.

 

FOREQUARTERS

Legs straight and well boned, set rather wide apart showing no weakness at the pasterns, from which point the feet turn out a little. Shoulders well laid back with no looseness at the elbow.

 

BODY

Close coupled with level topline. Wide front, deep brisket, well sprung ribs; Muscular and well defined.

 

HINDQUARTERS

Well muscled, hocks well let down with stifles well bent. Legs parallel when viewed from behind.

 

FEET

Well padded, strong and of medium size. Nails black in solid coloured dogs.

 

TAIL

Medium length, low set, tapering to a point and carried rather low. Should not curl much and may be likened to an old fashioned pump handle.

 

GAIT/MOVEMENT

Free, powerful and agile with economy of effort. Legs moving parallel when viewed from front or rear. Discernable drive from hindlegs.

 

COAT

Smooth, short and close.

 

COLOUR

red, fawn, white, black or blue. Or any of these colours with white. Any shade of brindle or any shade of brindle with white. Black and tan or liver colour highly undesirable.

 

SIZE Weight: Dogs: 12.7kg - 17kg (28lbs - 38lbs) Bitches: 11kg - 15.4kg (24lbs - 34lbs)

Desirable height: 14in - 16in(these heights being related to the weights.)

 

FAULTS

Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree.

 

NOTE

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

 

1935 BREED STANDARD
GENERAL APPEARANCE

The Staffordshire Bull Terrier is a smooth-coated dog, standing about 15 to 18 inches high at the shoulder. He should give the impression of great strength for his size, although muscular should be active and agile.

 

CHARACTERISTICS

From the past history of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier the modern dog draws his character of indominitable courage, high intelligence and tenacity. This, coupled with his affection for his friends, and children in particular, his off-duty quietness, and trustworthy stability makes him the foremost all-pupose dog.

 

HEAD AND SKULL

Short, deep through with broad skull. Very pronounced cheek muscles. Distinct stop. Short foreface, nose black.

 

EYES

Dark. Round, of medium size, set to look straight ahead.

 

EARS

Rose or half pricked. Full drop ears to be penalized.

 

MOUTH

Lips tight and clean. Jaws strong. Teeth large with a perfect, regular and comlete scissor bite, ie: upper teeth closely overlapping the lower teeth and set square to the jaws. The badly undershot or overshot jaw to be heavily penalized.

 

NECK

Muscular, rather short, clean in outline gradually widening towards the shoulder.

 

FOREQUARTERS

Legs straight and well boned, set rather wide apart without looseness at the shoulders and showing no weakness at the pasterns, from which point the feet turn out a little.

 

BODY

Close coupled with level topline. Wide front, deep brisket, well sprung ribs and rather light in loin. Muscular and well defined.

 

HINDQUARTERS

Well muscled, hocks well let down with stifles well bent. Legs parallel when viewed from behind.

 

FEET

Well padded, strong and of medium size.

 

TAIL

Medium length, low set, tapering to a point and carried rather low. Should not curl much and may be likened to an old fashioned pump handle.

 

COAT

Smooth, short and close.

 

 

COLOUR

Red, fawn, white or black. Or any of these colours with white. Any shade of brindle or any shade of brindle with white. Black and tan or liver colour highly undesirable.

 

 

SIZE

Weight:

Dogs: 12.7kg - 17kg (28lbs - 38lbs)

Bitches: 11kg - 15.4kg (24lbs - 34lbs)

Desirable height:

15in - 18in (these heights being related to the weights.)

 

FAULTS

To be penalized in accordance with the severity of the fault: Light or pink eye-rims. Tail too long or badly curled. Non conformation to the limits of weight or height. Full drop ears. Pink or Dudley nose. Undershot or overshot mouths.

 

NOTE

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

 

 

• EYES - changed to "Dark, but may bare some relation to coat colour."
• EARS - changed to "Prick ears to be penalized. Ears should be small, neat, tidy."
• COLOUR - Blue coat is added.
• HEIGHT - changed to "14 to 16inches at shoulders."
• MOUTH AND NOSE - Penalization of undershot and overshot mouths and Dudley noses is amended to debarment from winning a prize

Tags: Standard

Hand signals

COME

 

DOWN

 

SIT

 

STAND

 

STAY

EARS

the photo of the 3 ears A.B.C. shows normal ear set in high, medium and low positions.

The second ear photo, show you how to check for a correct ear size.

The Stafford ear in its correct form is called a ROSE EAR. the rose ear [if flattened out] is roughly triangular in form.

The lengths L and W are closely the same.That means if L is 4 inches then W`will be 4 inches.

Length and width can vary, but our Stafford ear should be from 3 inches to 5 inches. For a normal Stafford ear it should be from 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 inches.

THE BODY

A easy way to tell if your Stafford has a good body is to measure (check photo) from A-B from the wither to tail set. Then A to C from the wither to the ground. they should be the same. They say this measurement should be from 14 1/2 inches to 16 1/2 inches.

the girth of the body is taken just behind the shoulders, it should be between 26/27 inches for dogs and 25 /26 inches for bitches, however it is know to vary from 24 - 30 inches.

THE TAIL

the tail is supposed to look like a old fashioned pump handle.

[see photo] the length of the tail when held over to the point of the hock, should just touch, [the bony part of the tail, not the fur]

BACK LEGS

When viewed from behind they should be straight and strong. cow hocks show weakness.

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How does a puppy grow in mom's tummy, some have seen the photos, but i wanted to show you a live puppy next to a drawing to you can see how they all come together.

This is a puppy born too early but you can see how the puppy grows, this puppy is about day 30 -32. the puppy is about 22mm or 1 inch and weigh 1 gm or 1/30 ounces

This one is at an very early stage 22 - 25 days old . The eyes are not developed but the eye lids are along with the spinal cord. This puppy is about 11mm or 1/2 an inch long.

again this is just a drawing to show you how the whelps sit and grow in mum tummy

 

 

How to tell if your stafford has a great head

 The Staffordshire head was developed for the purpose of dog fighting, not that i agree with dogs fighting. However the Stafford was bred with a powerful jaw that had the ability to bite and hold on. It is said that the Staffordshire bull terrier has lockjaw, this is not true. The dog just has a powerful jaw that cannot be opened by human hands.

The jaw is operated by the powerful cheek muscles, with a heavily bones jaw. But its the whole head that make the dog so powerful. The skull is broad and muzzle short.

The appearance of the head and face is determined by the following points.

1.the length of the muzzle to the skull.

2. the depth and breadth of the muzzle and skull

3. the angle of the muzzle and skull set to each other.

4. the placement of the eyes and there shape.

the size of the ears and carriage.

1.the measurement is taken from the end of the nose to the stop. The stop is the break between the muzzle and skull. Look at your dog face, now look at the eyes, draw an imaginary line across between the corners of the eyes, this is the stop.

The skull is from the stop to the occiput, or the back of the skull. Run your fingers along the back of the skull there is a knobby bone in the centre of the skull which is level with the base of the ears. Imagine a line from the eyes to the occiput (check photo with MOS).

Now the muzzle should fit twice between the stop and occiput, its called the 2 to 1 ratio. An easy way to measure is cut a piece of ribbon or string the length of your dogs muzzle, then times it by two, cut out the second piece, now lay the second piece from the corners of your dogs eyes over the top of his skull and to the knobby bone. Does it fit? If yes then your dogs muzzle to skull is right.

Measurements of Staffordshire skulls over the years have found to be surprisingly little in variation in length of skull which is close to 5 inches (4 3/4 - 5 1/4 inches).

There is more variation in the length of the muzzles the average length is 3 inches, the skull then should be 6 inches for the 2 to 1 ratio to work.

Jacksons has a 3 inch muzzle, Kara 2 1/2 muzzle and abbey 2 1/2 and Joppa 3 inch with a 5 inch skull.

So Jackson, kara and Abbey have perfect muzzle to skull measurements.

Joppa has a longer muzzle to skull, being an out of per portion skull. Poor Joppa, she is not a pedigree Stafford so there is some bad breeding done with her parents..

2. Measuring the girth of the skull is easy. its is taken from the front of the ears, (check photo) to the jaw. it can vary from 14 inches to 19 inches. A 19 inch skull is 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep. A 14 inch skull girth has about 4 1/2 inches deep and 4 1/2 inches wide.

 17 -19 inch is a normal adult dog and 15 - 17 inch for a adult bitch.

The muzzle girth is measured from the corners of the eyes to the end of the lips in a straight line. for example Jackson has a 3 inch muzzle,  his  girth measurement should also be 3 inches, and it is.

Abbey and Karra have a 2 1/2 inch muzzle, so there girth should be the same, and it is.

Joppa has an 3 inch muzzle and should have a 3 inch girth but she has a 2 1/2 girth. After taking all of joppa's measurements, i can now say she has what they call a snippy nose, its too long by 1/2 inch.

The eyes should be dark and fairly large and roundish in effect. They should be set square in the face (see photo). As far as measurements there is only one and it is taken from the corners of the eyes as in photo and be from 1 7/8 to 2 1/4 inches.

i will talk about the ears later.

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