OK - this is the English setter head description - with thanks to the KC
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Head carried high, long and reasonably lean, with well defined stop. Skull oval from ear to ear, showing plenty of brain room, a well defined occipital protuberance. Muzzle moderately deep and fairly square, from stop to point of nose should equal length of skull from occiput to eyes, nostrils wide and jaws of nearly equal length, flews not too pendulous; colour of nose black or liver, according to colour of coat.
Brittany heads should NOT be long and lean; the stop is not well defined, the skull isn't oval; the occiput can be felt but not visible; the muzzle is not square - more wedge shaped; and the measurements are not equal from nose to stop and stop to occiput, they should be 2 muzzle to 3 over the skull.
The Louvet diagram gives the correct outline and measurements
Annie _________________ Annie
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Funny...I thought the lips of a Setter are rather pendulous?
When they talk about a " Setterised " head- where and because our Brittany has such blood in them...They mean a longish head with a rather long muzzle too. Maybe snipy too.
The head planes should not be convergent( like a Pointer) or Divergent( like a Bracco)ie muzzle going downwards.
The air takes is at its optimum when the muzzle- skull lines are straight and the scent goes to the brain
Well i'm no expert - but aren't they all Brittanys, some old standard some new. Oh, i don't know - just looked again, and can't work them out, but isn't one of them your dog Guy? this is why its going to take me two years to look for a new dog - i'm easily confused!! I'll leave it to the experts, but at least i gave it a go
Maybe you could put other "bits" of body. I know this is part of the homework for the seminar. Nothing quite like pictures to illustrate a dog. The one I really liked was when Kathy put a Welshie on the table, a Brittany on another and then put bits of sticky tape to show the variation on angulation in between the 2 breeds. Quite ingenious.
Not meaning that it is the only difference by the way
What happened to the other dogs that have suddenly disappeared? I had more to choose from last time
I pressed submit instead of preview . So you will be pleased to know my dog was in that original line up. _________________ Guy, Ellie, Topaz, Catja and in memory Barley
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_________________ Jan
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