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Excerpt from A LITTLE BULL Winter 2000 issue.

Focus On The Standard...

Forequarters

The strong muscular development of the shoulder and front assembly should be obvious without being overdone or looking muscle bound. The Miniature Bull Terrier should have a pronounced layback of the shoulder. The strong, straight sturdy front legs should be in line with the correct shoulder layback resulting in a developed fore chest. Pasterns should be strong and upright.

The materials, photos, and illustrations were developed and approved by a committee appointed by the MBTCA. Special thanks to Donly Chorn, Marilyn Drewes, Dennis Harris, Patti Holt and Trudy Pizer for their contributions, insights and devotion to the breed The illustrations were created by multi-group judge Stephen J. Hubbell

 

Correct front xxxxxxxxxxx Correct front assembly (skeletal)
The shoulders should be strong and muscular, but without heaviness. The shoulder blades should be wide and flat and there should be a very pronounced backward slope from the bottom edge of the blade to the top edge. The legs should be of moderate length, perfectly straight and the dog must stand firmly up on them. The elbows must turn neither in nor out and the pasterns should be strong and upright.

The shoulder blades should be wide and flat and there should be a very pronounced backward slope from the bottom edge of the blade to the top edge. The stifle joint is well bent with a well developed second thigh.