Lowchen
Coat
Solid:
or Light grey (furfile).
Tan:
with 
markings in the traditional, creeping or saddle pattern.
The markings may be brindled.
May have less tan on the legs/feet, tan fingers/toes being the required minimum.
Sable: Red and chocolate sable is accepted in any of the patterns.
is accepted as a base colour.
are accepted as shading colour.
The overlay/shading should be on the longhaired areas only, not the shaved.
Brindle: One of these combinations:
with striping.
with striping.
with striping.
with striping.
When the dog is brindle, both the coated and the shaved areas should be brindled, or with the coated parts using a solid version of the stripe colour.
May use a longhair brindle furfile on the coated areas and a shorthair brindle furfile on the shaved.
Shaded Silver:
Black Based Silver: with or without a darker shade, related colour, or on one, several, or all of the following: ears, tail, body (upper or whole), backside of neck.
Liver Based Silver: Light grey (furfile) with points as placed above
Masking: , Sables, Brindles, Silvers and Tanpoints may be masked (standard mask).
Allowed masking colours are
If the dog is Sable/Brindle/Tanpoint/Silver, it must match the Shading/Striping/Body colour, except in Silvers where it is for Black Silvers, and for Liver Sables (matching colour on dog).
In this breed, it is also allowed for the masking to be present as coloured eartips only.
White Markings: All colours allowed with or without in any amount, including solid white all over.
Dogz with muzzle may have a patch of to represent stained fur.
Ticking/Roaning: Ticking is allowed.
In this breed, sometimes only the shaved areas appear ticked while the long coat looks clear. This is allowed without fault.
Shaved Areas: In all of the above, the shaved areas may be coloured as follows:
with clipped areas
with clipped areas
with clipped areas
with clipped areas
with clipped areas
with clipped areas
with clipped areas
with clipped areas
Sables may have skin.
Solid white in this breed can represent either pale cream or white spotting. When used as cream, the shaved areas should be . When due to white spotting, they should be or pale pink (furfile).
White dogz with masking fall into the Light Cream group (and so must follow their guidelines for shaved areas).
Eyes
in black pigmented dogz.
in others.
Nose
in black pigmented dogz.
in liver pigmented dogz.
Solid dark brown () can represent either liver or havana brown in this breed. When representing havana brown, the dog should have a nose.
Faults
Wrong nose colour.
Wrong eye colour.
Shaved area which has a colour that does not match or complement the longhaired areas well.
Disqualifications
Pale pink longhaired areas.
Notes
This breed's name is German, correctly spelled 'Löwchen', and translates to 'little lion', a name given to the breed after its special coat cut. It belongs to the Barbichon family of dogs, and is related to the Bichon Frisé, as well as the Maltese. Despite having been around for hundreds of years, especially among royalty and often depicted in older paintings, this breed almost disappeared in the early 1900's. Belgian breeders like madame Bennert and Dr Rickert are believed to have saved the breed from complete extinction.
The Guinness World Book of Records proclaimed the Lowchen the rarest breed in the world in 1969, and that was also the year that the first ones reached Britain. Since then, the breed was grown quite a bit in popularity.
The Lowchen should be a small, elegant and lively dog. The head is short with a broad skull, the eyes dark with a friendly expression. The ears are long, hanging and well covered in fur. The body should be short and proportionate, with fine boning, straight front legs and well angulated hind. The tail is of medium length. The coat is long and wavy, cut in a lioncut fashion, this the breed's name.
Breed Files
PDH's Resources V3
Filename: LowchensOffset: 2583
Base: Dalmatian
SCP: Dalmatian
Accepted: March 9, 2007
Notes: Angled legs; addball foot fuzz, belly fuzz, ears, and tail. Comes with four texture variations, two tail types (both pictured), two eyebrow thickness variations, two topline variations (only butt ball is different), two different back leg angulations, two ear length variations, and with or without jowl outlines. The four texture variations are BCFeathering, hair10, cali5, and vbolog2. July 2009 - Modification accepted: Lots of new variations in coat and bodyshape.
PDH's Resources V1
Filename: LowchensOffset: 2583
Base: Sheepdog
SCP: Sheepdog
Accepted: January 4, 2006
Notes: -
PDH's Resources V2
Filename: -Offset: -
Base: Dalmatian
SCP: Dalmatian
Accepted: January 4, 2006
Notes: Version 2 of the PDH Kennel and Cattery file.
Abnormality
Filename: LowchensOffset: 2583
Base: Dalmatian
SCP: Dalmatian
Accepted: February 26, 2005
Notes: Many colour variations - all are accepted. This file overwrites the PDH file, and when dogs from that file are crossed with this file in, the puppies may be smaller than the 1st gens of the abno file. They are still accepted, however.