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Standard of Italian
Greyhound
GENERAL APPEARANCE
Of an elongated shape, its body fits into a square and its form recalls, in miniature, those of the Greyhound and the Sloughi. May be considered as a model of grace and distinction.
IMPORTANT PROPORTIONS
Its length is equal of only just inferior to the height at the withers. Length of head can reach 40% of the height at the withers.
BEHAVIOUR AND TEMPERAMENT
Reserved, affectionate, docile.
HEAD
Of elongated shape and narrow, its length can attain 40% of the height at the withers.
SKULL REGION
Flat skull with the superior axes of the skull and muzzle parallel. Length of skull is equal to half the length of the head, lower orbital region well chiselled.
Stop
Frontal nasal depression only very slightly marked.
FACIAL REGION
Nose
Of a dark colour, preferably black, whitewalled opened nostrils.
Muzzle
Pointed, with edges of lips very darkly pigmented; lips thin and tight.
Jaw
Elongated with well aligned incisors crown shape, strong in relation to size of dog.
Cheeks
Lean.
Teeth
Sound and complete, set square to the jaws; scissor bite.
Eyes
Large and expressive, neither deep-set nor protruding. Iris of dark colour, eyelid rims pigmented.
Ears
Set very high, small, with fine cartilage, folded in itself and carried well back on the nape and upper part of the neck (rose ears). When the dog is attentive, the base of the ear is erected and the lobe tends to stand out laterally on the horizontal, position commonly known as "flaying ears" or "propeller ears".
NECK
Profile
Upper line slightly arched and broken at the base towards the withers.
Length
Equal to that of the head.
Shape
Truncated cone, well muscled.
Skin
Lean, fine and without dewlap.
BODY
Its length is equal or barely inferior to the height at the withers.
Topline
Straight profile with arched dorsal-lumbar region. The lumbar curve merging harmoniously in the line of the rump.
Withers
Quite well defined.
Back
Straight, well muscled.
Rump
Very sloping, wide and muscled.
Chest
Narrow, deep, let down to the elbows.
Tail
Low set, fine even at base, tapering prooressively to its tip. Is carried low and straight in its first halth, the 2nd half curved. Pulled up between the tighs towards the topline, it should surpass the level of the hip-bone slightly.
QUARTERS
FOREQUARTERS
Straight limbs with lean muscles.
Shoulder
Very slightly sloping with well developed, clear and salient muscle.
Upperarm
With a very open scapular-humeral angle, and parallel to the median plan of the body.
Elbows
Neither out or tied-in elbows.
Forearm
Length of the limb measured from ground to elbow just slightly longer than distance from elbow to the withers; very lightly boned, forearm in perfect vertical position from front and profile.
Pastern
In the prolonged vertical line of the forearm; seen in profile it is a little slanting.
Forefoot
Of almost oval shape, small, with arched and closely-knit toes. Pads pigmented. Nails black or dark according to coat colour and that of the foot where white is tolerated.
HINDQUARTERS
Seen from behind straight and parallel.
Upper thigh
Long, lean, not voluminous, with very distinct muscles.
Second thigh
Very sloping, with fine bone structure and apparent groove in leg muscle.
Hock and metatarsal
In prolongation of a vertical line drawn from the ischial tuber.
Foot
Less oval than the forefoot, with arched and closely-knit toes; pads and nail pigmented like the forefoot.
GAIT AND MOVEMENT
Springy, harmonious, no hackney gaiting (high-stepping). Gallop fast with sharp spring.
SKIN
Fine and tight on all parts of the body except for the elbows where it is slightly less tight.
COAT
Texture
The hair is short and fine all over the body without the slightest trace of fringes.
Colour of coat
Self-coloured in black, grey, slate grey, slate and yellow in all possible shades. White is tolerated only on the chest and feet.
SIZE AND WEIGHT
Height at the withers
Males an females from 32 to 38 cm.
Weigh
Males and females: maximum 5 kg.
FAULTS
Any departure from the foregoing points constitutes a fault which when judging must be penalised according to seriousness and extension. These clauses apply equally to those subjects who continuously amble and to those with hackney or high-stepping gait.
ELIMINATING FAULTS
Accentuated convergence or divergence of the facial-cranial axes, nose totally or half depigmented, concave or convex muzzle, dewclaws, tail carried over the back, multicoloured coat, white except on chest and feet as mentioned above. Size below 32 cm. or over 38 cm. in males and females.
DISQUALIFYING FAULTS
Overshot or undershot mouth, wall eye, total depigmentation of eyelid rims. Absence of tail whether congenital or articial.
Note:
Males should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.
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