ORIGIN : Tibet.

PATRONAGE : Great Britain.

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 24.03.2004.

UTILIZATION : Toy Dog.

CLASSIFICATION F.C.I.
Group 9 Companion and Toy Dogs.
Section5 Tibetan breeds.
Without working trial.

GENERAL APPEARANCE : Well balanced, sturdy, heavily coated.

BEHAVIOUR  / TEMPERAMENT: Gay and assertive.  Alert, steady but somewhat aloof with strangers.

HEAD : Heavy head furnishings with good fall over eyes; good whiskers and beard.
CRANIAL REGION
Skull : Moderately narrow, falling away behind eyes, not quite flat, but not domed or apple headed.
Stop : Medium.
FACIAL REGION
Nose : Black.
Muzzle : About 4cm (1 1/2 ins), but not square; length from tip of nose roughly one third of total length from nose to back of skull.
Foreface : Straight.
Jaws/Teeth : Upper incisors close just inside lower i.e. reverse scissor bite.  Incisors in a broad and as straight a line as possible.  Full dentition desirable.
Eyes : Dark.  Medium size, frontally placed, oval, neither large nor full, nor small and sunk.  No white showing at base or top.
Ears : Pendant, heavily feathered.

NECK : Strong and well arched.

BODY : Length from point of shoulders to point of buttocks greater than height at withers.  Balanced and compact.
Back : Level topline.
Loin : Strong.
Chest : Ribs extending well back.

TAIL : High set, carried well over back but not like a pot-hook.  Often a kink at end.  Well feathered.

LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS : Forelegs straight, heavily furnished with hair.
Shoulders : Well laid back.
HINDQUARTERS : Well developed with good muscle.  Good angulation.  Heavily furnished with hair.
Hocks : When viewed from behind parallel and not too close together.
FEET : Round, cat-like with firm pads.  Well feathered.

GAIT / MOVEMENT : Free and jaunty.

COAT
HAIR : Top coat long, heavy, straight, hard neither woolly nor silky.  Moderate undercoat.
COLOUR : Golden, sandy, honey, dark grizzle, slate, smoke, parti-colour, black, white or brown.  All equally acceptable.

SIZE: Ideal height : 25.4 cm (10 ins) at shoulder for dogs; bitches slightly smaller.