Kintamani Dog Breed Information

Kintamani Dog Breed Information - Kintamani is a dog race that came from the mountains of Kintamani, Bali - Indonesia. These dogs can be classified in the working group with medium-size dogs. Kintamani had balance and good body proportions with a strong bone structure. 

As the mountains dogs, Kintamani have long hair with specific white, black or brown. Clustering in the FCI, Kintamani dogs in the group V because it has the characteristics of primitive type dogs, such as Spitz and Chow-chow, Basenji, and Samoyed.

Kintamani is the intrepid dog and agile, clever and easily trained. Possess a high alert and easily worried. He living close and loyal to their owners. Kintamani Dog (Bali) often attacks dogs or other animals entering the realm. He mobile, lightweight and flexible.

Head

The top of the head is wide with flat forehead and cheeks, snout and strong disproportionate size of the head, jaw looks strong and compact, has strong teeth, lips, black or dark-brown color. Ears are thick, strong, stand-shaped "V" upside-down with the tip slightly rounded. The distance between the ears is quite big.

Oval-shaped like the almond fruit with dark-brown eyes and white eyelashes. Nose black or brown color and the nose often changed due to season or increase in years.

To get recognition from the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) eligible, it needs to attempt a scientific and accountable. One effort is to examine the relationship between structure and color distribution of DNA profiles in the specific white fur genotype with white fur color phenotype of Kintamani dog.

The distribution of hair color on the Kintamani dog can be clustered into four types;

1. Slightly reddish color and white fur with brown-reddish color of the ear, the hair in the back of the thigh and the tip of its tail.
2. Black smooth or with a little white chest.
3. Russet or brown with the black snout tip, often referred to by the community as a color- Bang bungkem.
4. Basic colors brown or light brown color with black lines.

Height and body shape

Male of Kintamani’s high is 45 cm to 55 cm and the  female dog 40 cm to 45 cm. The most hair color is specific white (slightly pink) and red-brown (beige) on the tip of the ears, tail and feathers at the back of the thighs. More colors are full black and brown with the black muzzle. Nose, lips, eyelids, scrotum, anus and feet are black or dark brown.

His neck sized, sleek look, with strong muscles. Width chest and back is flat. Female Kintamani’s body mostly longer than the male.

Legs rather long, strong and straight when viewed from front or rear. Without tajir heel, soft foot movement. Tail feathers have dispersed, vertical, and forming an angle of 45 degrees or slightly curved but not falling or circling above the waist or fall to the side. The more the long tail feathers the better.

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