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Breed: American Hairless Terrier
Breed Group: Terrier
Appearance: A small to medium sized terrier of two varieties, 'hairless' and 'coated'.
Originally bred to hunt.
Intelligent,active,and friendly. Good companions and good with children.
An approximate lifespan of around 10 to 11 years.
Requires a moderate amount of exercise.
Care should be taken with the skin of the hairless variety, protection is needed from the sun and winter cold.
The coated variety require regular grooming.
Head: Proportionate to the size of the body, when viewed from the side, the skull and muzzle are equal in length and joined by a moderate stop. Viewed from the front and the side the head forms a blunt wedge shape.
The muzzle is well filled out under the eyes, well chiselled and tapers slightly from stop to the nose.
The nose is black or self-coloured.
Lips are dry and tight with no flews. Lip pigment matches nose pigment.
Eyes: Eyes are set obliquely and are round, moderate in size and somewhat prominent. Eye rims match nose pigment.
Coated Variety: Eye colour ranges from dark brown to amber and corresponds with the coat colour. Hazel eyes are acceptable in dogs with lighter coat colour. Blue or amber eyes are permitted in blue-coloured dogs only, but a dark grey eye with grey eye rims is preferred.
Hairless Variety: Eyes may be of any colour found in the coated variety.
Ears: Ears are 'V' shaped, set at the outside edges of the skull. Erect ears are preferred but tipped or button ears are acceptable. Matching ears are strongly preferred. Non matching ear carriage should be penalised to the degee of the variation.
Note: Ear carriage may not stabilize until a dog is mature. Dogs under one year of age should not be penalised for variations in ear carriage.
Mouth: Complete set of good-sized, evenly spaced, white teeth. A scissor bite is preferred but a level bite is tolerated.
Neck: The neck is clean, moderately long, smoothly muscled, slightly arched and tapers slightly from the shoulders to the head. The neck blends smoothly into well laid back shoulders.
Forequarters: Shoulders are smoothly muscled. The shoulder blades are well laid back with the upper tips fairly close together at the withers. The upper arm appears to be equal in length to the shoulder blade and joins it at an apparent right angle. The elbows are close to the body. Viewed from any angle, the forelegs are straight, strong, and sturdy in bone. The pasterns are strong, short and nearly vertical.
Body: Slightly longer than tall (measured from the withers to the ground), and length of the front leg (measured from point of elbow to the ground) should approximately equal one-half of the dogs height.
The line of the back is strong and level. The loin is moderately short, slightly arched, and muscular, with a moderate tuck-up. The croup is slightly sloping. Ribs extended well back and well sprung out of the spine, forming a broad, strong back, then curving down and inwards to form a deep body. Brisket extends to or just below the elbow. Viewed from the front, the chest between the forelegs is well filled and of moderate width. Viewed from the side, the forechest extends in a shallow oval shape in front of the forelegs.
Hindquarters: Hindquarters are muscular with the length of the upper and lower thighs being equal. The angulation of the hindquarters is in balance with the angulation of the forequarters. The stifles are well-bent, and the hocks are well let down. When the dog is standing, the short, strong rear pasterns are perpendicular to the ground and, viewed from the rear, parallel to one another.
Feet: Compact and slightly oval in shape. The two middle toes are slightly longer than the other toes. Toes may be well split up but not flat or splayed. Front dewclaws may be removed. Rear dewclaws must be removed.
Tail: The tail is set on at the end of the croup. The natural tail is thick at the base and tapers toward the tip. When the dog is alert, the tail is carried in an upward curve. When relaxed, the tail may be carried straight out behind the dog. The tails of the coated variety dogs may be docked. If so, docking should be between the second and third joint of the tail.
Gait movement: Moves with a jaunty air that suggests agility, speed and power.
Gait is smooth and effortless, with good reach of forequarters, without any trace of hackney gait. Rear quarters have strong driving power, with hocks fully extending. Viewed from any position, legs turn neither in nor out, nor do feet cross or interfere with each other. As speed increases, feet tend to converge toward centre line of balance.
Coat: Hairless Variety: Puppies are born with a soft, vestigial down that generally covers the body. This 'down' gradually diminishes until age 6 to 8 weeks, by which time the pup should be completely hairless. A mature hairless variety dog should be free from hair except for whiskers and guard hairs on the muzzle, and eyebrows. Short, very fine (vellus) hair may be present on the body of a mature dog. The skin is smooth and warm to the touch. The hairless variety may sweat when overheated or stressed, but this is not to be faulted when in the ring.
Coated Variety: The coat is short, dense and smooth, with a sheen. Whiskers are not removed.
Colour: Hairless Variety: Any skin colour is acceptable. The skin is usually parti-coloured with an underlying skin colour and freckles or spots of contrasting colour. Freckles enlarge with age, and skin colour will darken when exposed to the sun.
Coated Variety: Solid white, bi-colour, tri-colour, sable or brindle, but must always have some white, which may be of any size and located anywhere on the dog. The white area may be ticked as long as white predominates. The remaining accepted colours are:- black, tan (ranging from dark tan to very light tan and from intense dark mahogany red to light red with black nose and eye rims), chocolate (ranging from dark liver to light chocolate with self-coloured nose and eye rims), blue and blue fawn (with self-coloured nose and eye rims), apricot (ranging from orange to faded yellow with black nose and eye rims) and lemon (ranging from orange to faded yellow with self-coloured nose and eye rims).
Height: from 25 to 40cm (Dogs) 25 to 40cm (Bitches)
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