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Excerpt from A LITTLE BULL Winter 1998-1999 issue.

Focus On The Standard...

Head, Skull and Muzzle

The head should be long, strong deep, right to the end of the muzzle, but not coarse. The full face should be an oval in outline and be filled completely up giving the impression of fullness with a surface devoid of hollows or indentations, i.e., egg shaped.

The profile should curve gently downwards from the top of the skull to the tip of the nose. The forehead should be flat across from ear to ear.

The head being the hallmark of the breed, to resemble an egg in shape. In observing the head in profile it is important to look for a gentle curve downwards, no apparent stop. The full face of the dog should be oval in appearance. There should be no evidence of any indentations chiseling or stop. Nor should the head appear "Cheeky," the sides should be smooth. A well filled oval or complete egg. The muzzle should be deep and broad, not snipy.

The distance from the tip of the nose to the eyes should be perceptibly greater than that from the eyes to the skull. The underjaw should be deep and well defined.

Unlike many other terriers, the distance from nose to eyes does not equal the distance from eyes to occiput. The muzzle should be apparently longer than the skull.