Pomeranian Breed Standard
Kennel Club, London 1994
GENERAL APPEARANCE - Compact, short coupled dog, well knit
in frame. Exhibiting great intelligence in expression; activity and buoyancy
in deportment.
CHARACTERISTICS - Sound, vivacious and dainty.
TEMPERAMENT - Extrovert, lively and intelligent.
HEAD AND SKULL - Head and nose foxy in outline, skull slightly
flat, large in proportion to muzzle which finishes finely and free from lippiness.
Nose black in white, orange and shaded sable dogs; brown in chocolate tipped
sable dogs, but in others colours may be 'self-coloured', never parti-coloured
or flesh.
EYES - Medium size, slightly oval, not full, or set too wide
apart; bright, dark and showing great intelligence. In white, orange, shaded
sable and cream dogs, rims black.
EARS - Small, not set too wide apart, nor too low down, but
carried perfectly erect.
MOUTH - Jaws strong, with a perfect, regular and compete scissor
bite, i.e. the upper teeth closely overlapping the lower teeth and set square
to the jaws.
NECK - Rather short and well set into shoulders.
FOREQUARTERS - Shoulders clean and well laid back. Fine boned
legs, perfectly straight, of medium length in due proportion to size of dog.

BODY - Back short, body compact, well ribbed up, barrel well
rounded. Chest fairly deep, not too wide but in proportion to size of dog.
HINDQUARTERS - Fine boned, legs neither cow-hocked nor wide
behind; medium angulation.
FEET - Small, compact and cat-like.
TAIL - Characteristic of breed, high set, turned over back
and carried flat and straight, profusely covered with long, harsh, spreading
hair.
GAIT/MOVEMENT - Free moving, brisk and buoyant.
COAT - Two coats, an under coat and an outer coat. Former
soft, fluffy, the latter long, perfectly straight, harsh in texture and covering
whole of body; very abundant round neck and fore part of shoulders and chest;
forming frill, extending over shoulders. Forequarters well feathered, thighs
and hindlegs well feathered to hocks.
COLOUR - All colours permissible, but free from black or white
shadings. Whole colours are: white, black, brown, light or dark, blue as pale
as possible. Orange which should be self-coloured and bright as possible, Beaver.
Cream dogs have black noses and black eye rims. Whites must be quite free from
lemon or any other colour. A few white hairs in any of the self-coloured dogs
permissible but undesirable. Dogs (other than white) with white or tan markings
highly undesirable and not considered whole coloured specimens. In parti-coloured
dogs, colours evenly distributed on body in patches; a dog with white or tan
feet or chest not a parti-coloured dog. Shaded sables should be shaded throughout
with three or more colours, the hair to be as uniformly shaded as possible,
and with no patches of self-colour. In mixed classes, where whole coloured and
parti-coloured Pomeranians compete together, the preference should, if in all
other points they are equal, be given to the whole coloured specimens.
SIZE -
Ideal weight: Dogs 1.8-2 kg (4-4& 1/2; lbs)
Bitches 2-2.5 kg (4.5-5& 1/2; lbs)
FAULTS - Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault
and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact
proportion to its degree.