Judges and owners of the Pyrenean Mountain Dog are advised that the standard has been amended.

Head and Skull: 

Strong head without coarseness, not too large in relation to size of dog. Skull curved when viewed from front and sides. Breadth at widest point about equal to length from occiput to stop. Head as viewed from above forms a blunt ‘v’ shape, well filled in below the eyes. Sides nearly flat and of good depth. No obvious stop or excessively protruding eyebrows ridges; only a slight furrow, so that skull and muzzle are joined by a gentle slope. Strong muzzle, medium length, slight taper near tip. Black nose and eye rims. Liver or pink pigmentation highly undesirable.

Colour:
(a) White.
(b) White with patches of badger, wolf-grey, paler shades of lemon, orange or tan. The colour patches may be on the head, ears or base of the tail and few permissible on the body.

Other colours undesirable.
Black patches going right down to the roots highly undesirable.

[Amendments underlined above. Remove ‘Black nose and eye rims’ and ‘Liver or pink pigmentation highly undesirable’ from colour clause and move to Head and Skull clause.]  

SURVEY RESULTS - PYRENEAN MOUNTAIN DOG SURVEY

Results of Survey conducted by the ANKC to ascertain if the owners of Pyrenean Mountain Dogs wished to change to the SCC (Société Centrale Canine, French K.C.) (Country of Origin) FCI Breed Standard for their breed in place of the current Kennel Club (UK) Standard.

After checking the Survey Voting slips to ensure that votes were correct in accordance with the survey regulations the result of the Survey are presented below.

The Voting was as follows:
Number of Votes received:                                 52
Number of Votes in favour of the change (Yes):    17
Number of Votes against the change (No):           27
Number of informal Votes:                                    8

Therefore the Breed Standard for the Pyrenean Mountain Dog will remain the Kennel Club (UK) standard. Please note that during the voting period an amendment to the Pyrenean Mountain Dog (Kennel Club (UK) standard) has been received by the ANKC, which will now automatically be adopted by the ANKC and is above for your information.