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Alaskan Klee Kai

Northern Breed Group

The goals and purposes of this brood standard include: to furnish guidelines for breeders who wish to maintain the quality of their brood and to amend it; to advance this breed to a state of similarity throughout the world; and to human activity as a guide for judges. Breeders and judges accept the responsibility to avoid whatever conditions or exaggerations that are detrimental to the health, welfare, essence and soundness of this breed, and must take the responsibility to see that these are not perpetuated.

Any departure from the following should exist considered a mistake, and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the domestic dog and on the dogs ability to perform its traditional work, which includes, but it non limited to, acting as a companion.

Since the Alaskan Klee Kai is a breed developed through miniaturization, attention should be paid to sure faults inherent with this developmental process, specially taking into mind that faults tin be perpetuated considering of a small-scale gene puddle. This includes, but is not limited to, bulging eyes, unacceptable temperament, and extremely fine bone.

History

The Alaskan Klee Kai was adult in Alaska by Linda Spurlin and her family unit, to be a companion-sized version of a northern spitz-blazon of canis familiaris frequently referred to every bit the Alaskan Croaking. From the early on 70s through 1988, the Spurlins carefully selected dogs who met their high standards for appearance and soundness. In 1988, they made the Alaskan Klee Kai available to others. Mrs. Spurlin originally called her new brood the Klee Kai, but in 1995 it was changed to Alaskan Klee Kai to denote their place of origin.
The Alaskan Klee Kai was recognized by the United Kennel Society January i, 1997.

General Appearance

The Alaskan Klee Kai is often referred to as a smaller version of their northern ancestors, the Alaskan Husky. They have a wedge-shaped head featuring a striking masked face, prick ears, and a double coat. The length of body is merely slightly longer than the height. The tail is well-furred and curls over the back or to either side when the dog is alert or moving. The appearance of the Alaskan Klee Kai reflects the breeds Northern heritage.
Disqualifications: Unilateral or bilateral cryptorchid.

Characteristics

The most distinctive characteristic of the Alaskan Klee Kai is the contrasting colored facial mask with the well-defined nose bar downwards the eye of the muzzle, and goggles effectually the eyes. They are very curious, intelligent, active, quick and agile. Loyalty and alertness make the Alaskan Klee Kai great watchdogs, good at giving warning, who may exist territorial despite their small-scale size. While they are devoted to their owners, and make excellent companions, they may exist aloof with strangers.
Disqualifications: Viciousness or extreme shyness.

Head

The caput is clean, free of wrinkles, proportionate to the size of the trunk, with a moderate stop. When viewed from the height or side, the skull and muzzle taper toward the nose to class a broad-based wedge shape.
Faults: Narrow caput; insufficient stop; end too steep.

Skull

The skull is slightly rounded and somewhat wide, tapering gradually from the widest point to the eyes.
Faults: Skull too flat or too domed.

Muzzle

The length of the muzzle, from stop to nose, is equal to or slightly shorter than the length of the skull, from occiput to stop. When viewed from the side or from above, the cage tapers slightly from where it joins the skull to the nose. The muzzle is well-filled-in under the eyes. The lower jaw is stiff, but not protruding. Lips are tightly-closed, and lip pigment is black in dogs whose coat colors are shades of black or gray; and lip pigment is liver-colored in dogs whose coat colors are shades of red. Faults: Loosely hanging lips; a shallow or receding lower jaw; a pinched or snipey cage; a too brusk or too long muzzle.

Teeth

A full complement of stiff white teeth meet in a scissors bite.
Fault: Level bite.
Disqualifications: Overshot or undershot seize with teeth, wry oral cavity.

Nose

Nose is blackness for dogs whose coat colors are shades of black or gray; and the nose is liver-colored for dogs whose coat colors are shades of red. A pinkish streaked snow nose is acceptable.
In contour, the olfactory organ is on the aforementioned line as the top of the muzzle and extends simply slightly beyond the lower jaw.

Optics

The eyes are of medium size and may be whatever colour or combination of colors. Almond-shaped eyes are the nearly desirable, followed in lodge of preference past oval and circular. The eyes are set obliquely. Middle rims are blackness for dogs whose glaze colors are shades of black or gray; and the eye rims are liver-colored in dogs whose coat colors are shades of red.
Faults: Optics fix too wide or too shut together.
Eliminating Fault: Bulging eyes.

Ears

The ears are prick, strongly cock and pointed upwards, well-furred, triangular in shape, and slightly big in proportion to the size of the head. The leather is thick from base of operations to tip. The ears are set so that the inner edge of each ear is above the inner half of the middle beneath information technology. Ear tips are slightly rounded. The ears are extremely mobile and react sensitively to sounds.
Fault: Ears set as well low.
Disqualification: Hanging or drop ears.

Cervix

The cervix is medium in length, arched, and carried proudly erect when the canis familiaris is standing. When moving at a trot, the cervix is extended so that the caput is carried slightly frontward.
Faults: Cervix too brusque and thick; neck too long.

Forequarters

The shoulders are moderately laid back. The shoulder blade and the upper arm are roughly equal in length.

Forelegs

Viewed from the front, the forelegs are direct, parallel, and spaced moderately apart, with moderate to fine bone in proportion to the size of the dog. Pasterns are flexible and stiff, moderately short, and slightly sloping. Elbows are neither close to the body nor out just are attack a airplane parallel to the body.
Faults: Straight shoulders; weak pasterns; brusk upper arm.

Body

In profile, the length of the body, from the betoken of the shoulder to the rear of the buttocks, is slightly longer than the height of the trunk from the withers to the basis. The withers are merely slightly higher than the croup. The topline of the back is level from just behind the withers to the loin. The sloping croup is never so steep every bit to restrict the rearward thrust of the hind legs.
The ribs are well sprung out from the spine, forming a strong back, then curving down and inward to near a center-shape if viewed in cross-section. The loin is strong and short but narrower than the rib cage and with a slight constrict-upwardly.
The chest is moderately broad and let down to the elbows. When viewed from the side, the everyman point of the chest is immediately behind the foreleg. The forechest should extend in a shallow oval shape in front end of the forelegs just the sternum should not be excessively pointed.
Faults: Chest too broad; barrel or flat ribs; slack or roached back. High in rear.

Hindquarters

Viewed from the rear, the rear pasterns are parallel to each other, and spaced moderately apart. The rear legs are moderately well angulated at stifle and hock joints. The rear pasterns are well permit down and perpendicular to the ground when viewed from any angle.
Serious Faults: Over-angulation; hocks turned in or out; sparse or weak thighs.

Feet

The feet are sized in proportion to the bone of the individual dog, oval in shape, and well-knuckled upward. The pads are thickly cushioned and well furred between the toes and pads. Hair on the feet may exist trimmed between the pads and effectually the outer edges of the feet. All dewclaws may be removed.
Faults: Splayed anxiety; long feet; poorly cushioned pads; feet pointed in or out.

Tail

The tail should be well furred and set on just below the level of the topline. The preferred tail carriage is a loose, natural curlicue, which falls to the center of the back or drapes to either side of the trunk. The tail may hang downwardly when the dog is relaxed or in unfamiliar situations but forms a loose, natural scroll when the dog is alert or moving. Night hairs at the tip of the tail are preferred.
Faults: Tail stands away from the dorsum or sides of the trunk when curled.
Serious Fault: Tail kinks non a outcome of injury.
Disqualification: Tail likewise brusque to curl over and naturally affect the back.

Glaze

The coat is double and of sufficient length to give a well furred appearance reminiscent of the breeds northern heritage. The coat is never so long as to obscure the outline of the dog. The cervix is well furnished with fur, which forms a protective ruff blending into the apron. The tail is well furred with longer pilus at the base and underside of the tail. Longer-coated dogs may take some feathering on the rear of the front end legs; the rear of the hindquarters, from the buttocks to the hock joint; underside of the trunk and tail; and the ears.
The undercoat is soft, dense, and of sufficient length to support the outer coat. The guard hairs of the outer coat are straight and never harsh nor extremely soft. The absenteeism of undercoat during the shedding season is normal. This brood is presented in a completely natural condition except that trimming of hair betwixt the pads and around the feet to nowadays a neater appearance is permissible.
Serious Faults: Coat that is so long as to obscure the outline of the dog; trimming other than described above.

Color

Coat colors in shades of black, gray or red are acceptable provided that the facial mask is distinct and clearly visible, and there is a contrasting lighter colour on the bottom half of the dogs face, throat, chest, breeches, feet, legs and underside. The overall appearance is one of symmetry.
The most desirable markings include light-colored spots over the eyes; lighter fur on the inside of the ears; a dark coloration at the tip of the tail; and a full facial mask which consists of dark coloration on the skull which extends downwards the nose bar of the muzzle and effectually the optics, or goggles, provided that it does non extend downwards the face more half the length of the muzzle (or face), a solid olfactory organ bar of undivided darker color extending from the forehead downwardly the height of the cage to the nose without extending down the sides of the cage; and a contrasting lighter colour extending up the cheeks to a line betwixt the exterior corners of the eyes and the base of the ears, downwards the sides of the cage, nether the jaw, and downwardly the throat. The fur on the inside of the ears should also exist of the aforementioned lighter contrasting color.
The acceptable, just less desirable markings include: a white tipped tail; and a light-colored blaze centered in the middle of the skull and cease. With the exception of the blaze and the light spots above the optics, the more than of the lighter contrasting color present on the upper role of the face, the less desirable is the mask; and more of the darker color present on the lower part of the face, the less desirable is the mask; with the to the lowest degree acceptable being the Widows Peak (where the unabridged face is of the lighter color with just a small nighttime area capping the top of the head and a point dropping into the center of the upper brow).
Fault: Symmetrical split - a narrow, low-cal-colored strip which evenly divides the dark strip down the nose bar of the muzzle.
Eliminating Faults: Absence of required lighter contrasting colour described above; asymmetrical markings visible while the dog is standing; any distinct area of lighter contrasting color on the topline, known as a cape; a dark olfactory organ bar on the centre of the cage that extends down the sides of the muzzle; distinct spots of lighter contrasting color anywhere other than the spots over the eyes, the bonfire on the head, or the tip of the tail.
Disqualifications: Absenteeism of distinct mask; solid coat color lacking distinct and contrasting markings; albinism.

Height & Weight

Information technology is intended that the Alaskan Klee Kai remain a small to medium-sized dog. Height is measured from the withers to the ground. Weight should exist proportionate to height and bone structure, appearing neither besides heavy nor likewise thin.
Toy Variety: Upwards to and including thirteen inches.
Miniature Variety: Over 13 inches and up to and including 15 inches.
Standard Diversity: Over 15 inches up to and including 17 inches.
Serious Error: Over 17 inches up to and including 17.v inches.
Eliminating Fault: Over 17.v inches in height.

Gait

The Alaskan Klee Kai should motility with the smooth, effortless, active gait of his Arctic forebears. When in the show ring, they should exist gaited on a loose pb at a moderately fast trot, exhibiting skilful reach in the forequarters and practiced drive in the hindquarters. When viewed from front end to rear while moving at a walk, the Alaskan Klee Kai does non single-rail, but as the speed increases, the legs gradually angle inwards until the pads are falling on a line directly under the longitudinal center of the torso. Equally the pad marks converge, the forelegs and hind legs are carried straight forrad, with neither elbows nor stifles turned in or out. While the dog is gaiting, the topline remains firm and appears level.
Faults: Brusk, prancing or inclement gait, lumbering or rolling gait; crossing or crabbing.

Serious Faults

Judges must penalize dogs with any i of the following serious faults and withhold championship points from whatsoever canis familiaris possessing two or more of these faults. Breeders should take every bit strict or even stricter view of these serious faults in their breeding program.
Coat: Coat that is and then long as to obscure the outline of the domestic dog; trimming other than as described in Coat paragraph.
Height and Weight: Over 17 inches up to and including 17.five inches.
Hindquarters: Over angulation; hocks turned in or out; thin or weak thighs.

Eliminating Faults

(An Eliminating Mistake is a Fault serious enough that it eliminates the domestic dog from obtaining any awards in a conformation event.)
Over 17.5 inches in height.
Bulging eyes.
Absence of required lighter contrasting colour described above; asymmetrical markings visible while the canis familiaris is standing; any distinct area of lighter contrasting colour on the topline, known equally a cape; a nighttime nose bar on the center of the muzzle that extends down the sides of the muzzle; distinct spots of lighter contrasting color anywhere other than the spots over the eyes, the blaze on the head, or the tip of the tail.

Disqualifications

(A dog with a Disqualification must not be considered for placement in a conformation outcome, and must exist reported to UKC.)
Unilateral or bilateral cryptorchid.
Viciousness or extreme shyness.
Albinism.
Over or undershot seize with teeth.
Wry mouth.
Hanging or drop ears.
Tail besides brusque to curl over and naturally touch on the back.
Absence of distinct mask.
Solid glaze colour lacking singled-out and contrasting markings.
Albinism.

Delight Note: In UKC Conformation Shows, this breed is shown past diverseness in this order Toy, Miniature, Standard.

More Info

For more information on this brood, please visit the Alaskan Klee Kai Association of America

Official UKC Breed Standard

Revised January 1, 2019