PKC - Lowchen

Coat

Solid:

or Light grey (furfile)
Sable: Red and chocolate sable is accepted in any of the patterns.

is accepted as a base colour

are accepted as shading colour. The overlay/shading should be on the longhaired areas only, not the shaved.
Brindle: One of these combinations:

with

striping

with

striping.

with

striping

with

striping
When the dog is brindle, both the coated and the shaved areas should be brindled, or with the coated parts using a solid version of the stripe colour. May use a longhair brindle furfile on the coated areas and a shorthair brindle furfile on the shaved.
Tan:

with

markings in the traditional, creeping or saddle pattern. The markings may be brindled. May have less tan on the legs/feet, tan fingers/toes being the required minimum.
Shaded Silver:
Black based Silver:

with or without a darker shade or related colour or

on one, several or all of the following ears, tail, body (upper or whole), backside of neck.
Liver based Silver: Light grey (furfile) with

points as placed above
Masking:

, Sables, Brindles, Silvers and Tanpoints may be masked (standard mask). Allowed masking colours are

. If the dog is Sable/Brindle/Tanpoint/Silver, it must match the Shading/Striping/Body colour, except in Silvers where it is

for Black Silvers and

for Liver Sables (matching colour on dog)
In this breed, it is also allowed for the masking to be present as coloured eartips only.
White Markings: All colours allowed with or without

in any amount, including solid white all over.
Ticking is allowed. In this breed, sometimes only the shaved areas appear ticked while the long coat looks clear. This is allowed without fault.
Dogz with

muzzle may have a patch of

to represent stained fur.
Shaved areas: In all of the above, the shaved areas may be coloured as follows:

with

clipped areas

with

clipped areas

with

clipped areas

with

clipped areas

with

clipped areas

with

clipped areas

with

clipped areas

with

clipped areas
Sables may have

skin.
Solid white in this breed can represent either pale cream or white spotting.
When used as cream, the shaved areas should be

.
When due to white spotting, they should be

or pale pink (furfile).
White dogz with masking fall into the Light Cream group (and so must follow their guidelines for shaved areas).

Eyes

in black-nosed dogz,

in others.

Nose

except in livers which have

.

Solid dark brown (95) can represent either liver or havana brown in this breed. When representing havana brown, the dog should have a black nose.

Faults

Wrong nose colour. Wrong eye colour. Shaved area which has a colour that does not match or complement the longhaired areas well.

Disqualifications

Pale pink longhaired areas.

Varieties

None

Notes

This breed's name is german, and correctly spelled 'Löwchen' translates to 'little lion', a name given to the breed after it's special coat cut. It belongs to the barbichon family of dogs, and is related to the bichon frisé as well as the maltese. Despite having been around for hundreds of years, especially among royalty and often depicted on older paintings, this breed almost disappeared in the early 1900's. Belgian breeders like madame Bennert and Dr Rickert are believed to have saved the breed from complete extinction.

Guinness world book of records proclaimed the lowchen the rarest breed in the world in 1969, and that was also the year that the first ones reached Britain. Since then, the breed was grown quite a bit in popularity.

The lowchen should be a small, elegant and lively dog. The head is short with a broad skull, the eyes dark with a friendly expression. The ears are long, hanging and well covered in fur. The body should be short and proportionate, with fine boning, straight front legs and well angulated hind. The tail is of medium length. The coat is long and wavy, cut in a lioncut fashion, this the breed's name.

Breed Files

Filename: Lowchens
Offset: 2583
Base: Dalmatian
SCP: Dalmatian
Accepted: March 9, 2007
Notes: Angled legs; addball foot fuzz, belly fuzz, ears, and tail. Comes with four texture variations, two tail types (both pictured), two eyebrow thickness variations, two topline variations (only butt ball is different), two different back leg angulations, two ear length variations, and with or without jowl outlines. The four texture variations are BCFeathering, hair10, cali5, and vbolog2. July 2009 - Modification accepted: Lots of new variations in coat and bodyshape.

Filename: Lowchens
Offset: 2583
Base: Sheepdog
SCP: Sheepdog
Accepted: January 4, 2006
Notes:

Filename:
Offset:
Base: Dalmatian
SCP: Dalmatian
Accepted: January 4, 2006
Notes: Version 2 of the PDH Kennel and Cattery file.

Filename: Lowchens
Offset: 2583
Base: Dalmatian
SCP: Dalmatian
Accepted: February 26, 2005
Notes: Many colour variations - all are accepted. This file overwrites the PDH file, and when dogs from that file are crossed with this file in, the puppies may be smaller than the 1st gens of the abno file. They are still accepted, however.