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Updated: June 11, 2025
NOSE Black. EARS The correct carriage of ears is a debatable point since cropping has been abolished. Probably in the large breed the drop ear is correct, but for Toys either erect or semi-erect carriage of the ear is most desirable.
Firstly, May readily move along the ground in the erect, or semi-erect, position, and without direct support from its arms. Secondly, That it may possess an extremely loud voice, so loud as to be readily heard one or two miles. Thirdly, That it may be capable of great viciousness and violence when irritated: and this is especially true of adult males.
There are fish that wriggle across country intrepidly with the dexterity and agility of the most accomplished snakes; there are fish that walk about on open sand-banks, semi-erect on two legs, as easily as lizards; there are fish that hop and skip on tail and fins in a manner that the celebrated jumping frog himself might have observed with envy; and there are fish that fly through the air of heaven with a grace and swiftness that would put to shame innumerable species among their feathered competitors.
Squills, after a long pause, employed in some of the more handy means for the reanimation of submerged bodies, supporting himself close to the fire in a semi-erect posture, with gentle friction, self-applied, to each several limb, and copious recourse to certain steaming stimulants which my compassionate hands prepared for him, stretches himself and says feebly, "In short, then, not to provoke further discussion, you would go to war in defence of your country.
The largest and most man-like of the apes the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang-outang also walk usually on all-fours; but in these the arms are so long and the legs so short that the body appears half erect when walking; and they have the habit of resting on the knuckles of the hands, not on the palms like the smaller monkeys, whose arms and legs are more nearly of an equal length, which tends still further to give them a semi-erect position.
He walks deliberately along some of the larger branches in the semi-erect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs cause him naturally to assume; and the disproportion between these limbs is increased by his walking on his knuckles, not on the palm of the hand, as we should do.
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