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New Deerhound Standard.

  Because I'm working on the Deerhound standard with pictures and explanations ready for my website and because the Deerhound Club is working on the VERENIGINGSFOK regulations, it just came to me to see on the FCI site whether the standard in my possession of 1998 is still correct Is. Since I as a judge regularly check this from all the Windhondrassen, I knew for 99.9% sure that the standard of 1998 was still gold but who outlines my surprise when I see a different date on the FCI site after opening the relevant page at the Deerhound Standard!!!! After opening, printing and comparing, there appears to be a very peculiar change in addition to the welfare and health rules already added to all other standards. The hair length has changed!! From the original "7 to 10 centimeters" it is changed to "8 to 10 centimeters". Where this comes from and what this is good for, I am puzzled, I am going to inquire in England. What I find a useful addition is "… and on its ability to perform its traditional work". The only problem here is that there is almost no judge who has ever seen a Deerhound really work!