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"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
Michael Polanyi, Hungarian Scientist and Philosopher, 1891-1976
Illustrated and Interpreted
Mudi Breed Standard
FCI#238/22.11.2004/GB

PAGE 4
ELIMINATING FAULTS
  • Aggressive or overly shy.
  • Flesh coloured, liverbrown or spotted nose in black, white, blue-merle, fawn or ash coloured dogs.  Flesh coloured or spotted nose in brown dogs.

The winter nose is not a serious fault in white and fawn Mudis. The spotted, merled nose is atypical, therefore faulty in merle Mudis.

  • One or more missing teeth (incisors, canines, premolars 2-4, molars 1-2). More than two missing PM1. The M3 are disregarded.
  • Over- or undershot mouth, wry mouth. Gap of more than 2 mm between upper and lower incisors.
  • Yellow eyes in black dogs.
  • Drop ears.
  • Short, smooth, flat coat on the whole body ; long hair on the head. Coat tending towards matting.
  • Wolf grey colour, black and tan with yellow to brown markings.

The judging and accepting of colors should be based on the color genetics of the already accepted colors. The natural combinations of the accepted colors and patterns are not faulty, therefore should be accepted (as in the brown merle, or isabella color). Those patterns and colors, which cannot be created from the accepted varieties, are considered a fault, and not tolerated (black and white spotted, tricolor, brindle, black and tan, brown and tan, sable, wolf, etc.).

However, for better understanding and tracking of color inheritance in the breed, it is important that even not accepted color and pattern variants be indicated correctly on the pedigree of the dog.

  • Height at the withers below 38 or over 47 cm.

See the note at the size description.

  • Albinism.
Albino Mudis can have very light blue or red colored irises, but the pupils of the eyes are always dark red colored.

Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.

NB :  Male animals must have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.
SKIN : Tight, without wrinkles.
COAT
HAIR : Head and front of limbs are covered by short, straight and smooth hair. On other parts of the body, the coat is uniformly very wavy or slightly curled. It is dense and always shiny, about 3 to 7 cm long.
At some spots, cow-licks and ridges are formed. The coat is longest on the back of the foreams and the upper thighs, where it forms pronounced featherings.

Rarely Mudis can have a shorter coat, it is not a serious fault if the fur structure shows the correct waviness. The straight, or almost straight fur is a much more serious fault. Big tufts of long fur on the paws is not desirable, this possibly shows the lack of exercise in the dog's life.


  
COLOUR

All accepted Mudi colors are equally valuable and preferred, none should be favored over the others.

  • Fawn.
Very unlucky translation of the original Hungarian term of this color, which should be ‘yellow’.
  
  • Black.
Black Mudis can show a little brownish or greyish hue on their fur, as in the Puli. These dogs are genetically black, and this phenomenon should not be confused with the black and tan marking, which is an unaccepted pattern.
  
  • Blue-merle, i.e. black speckled, estriped, -brindle or -spotted on lighter or darker bluish-grey primary colour.

Merle Mudis do not have white/copper trim, like the Shetland Sheepdog or Collie. Each and every merle Mudi has an individual pattern. There are very light merles, which have only small dark patches and speckles on their fur, and very dark merles, where most of the body shows the solid dark color with minor merled spots only. None of these should be preferred over the others either in breeding or judging. The amount of merledness is not inheritable, the offspring of each merle Mudi will show the full range of merledness when bred.

Another feature of the Merle Mudi is their fur darkens with age, and the lighter patches become less and less prominent.

Besides the blue merle (which should truly be called ‘black merle’) the brown and ash merle can be seen as well. As these are natural combinations of the accepted brown, or ash color and the merle pattern, they cannot be considered a fault.

  
  • Ash colour.

When they are born, ash Mudis are usually silverish grey. As they age, their color darkens. Some ash Mudis optically are almost black when they are 5-6 years old. This is not a fault.

  • Brown. 

The color of the brown Mudi can be lighter as the shedding period approaches. After shedding, the new fur is shiny chocolate brown again.

Rarely the ashbrown, or Isabella color appears too. The nose and skin pigmentation is the same as the fur color in these dogs. This color is the natural combination of the accepted ash and brown colors and it is not a fault.


Only slightly extensive white markings are tolerated but not desired. A white patch on the chest, less than 5 cm in diameter, and small white markings on the toes are tolerated but not desired.
There is no ‘brown marking’ in the Mudi, as some try to interpret the black and tan pattern.
















  
  • White.
It is almost impossible to see snow white Mudis, usually the whitest of them have a butter tint to their fur. Most common are the transitional colors between white and fawn, it is the same phenomenon as in the Golden retriever. These differences are equally valuable, selective breeding for pure white or fawn Mudis should not be a primary goal.
SIZE AND WEIGHT

The size of the Mudi gained inappropriate  importance in breeding and judging. The Mudi is a fast moving, all day working sheepdog, the radical reduction of its size should not be a primary goal. Judging a Mudi’s value should not be based on size measured in centimeters/inches, but rather harmony and purpose-specific proportionality should be the main factors.


HEIGHT AT WITHERS
Dogs:     41 – 47 cm ; Ideal height 43 – 45 cm
Bitches:  38 – 44 cm ; Ideal height 40 – 42 cm.
WEIGHT
Dogs:     11 – 13 kg.
Bitches:  8 – 11 kg.
  
FAULTS : Any departure from the foregoing points must be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree.
(For more detailed color and pattern information, please
go to the Mudi Compass Color Point pages on this website.)
Key Definitions

Cow-licks: A turned up tuft of hair that resists control; a cowlick appears when the growth direction of the hair forms a spiral pattern, the hair in a cowlick either stands straight up or lies at an extreme angle and seems to be always at odds with the style in which the rest of the hair is worn.
Featherings: Longer fringe of hair on ears, legs, tail or body
Overshot mouth: The upper front teeth overlap and do not touch the lower front teeth when the mouth is closed
Undershot mouth: The lower front teeth project beyond the upper front teeth when the mouth is closed
Winter nose: A normally black nose which in winter takes on a brownish hue
Wry mouth: Lower jaw does not line up with upper jaw, i.e twisted to one side, can affect either lower or upper jaw or end of muzzle
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