Catalan Breed Standard - Gos D'Atura

Our objective on this page was to provide you with the Catalan Sheepdog breed standard but at the moment we still await confirmation of this from the Kennel Club. Hopefully we will receive information from them sometime during 2008.

At the moment Catalan owners tend to measure back to the Spanish standards. We do not expect the standard when issued to be wildly different from the Briard standard because both breeds share common ancestry and traits.

Many people consider Catalans as smaller Briards which arguably is what they are; the colourations are similar; they both share double dew claws, they are herders and temperaments are similar. That said we shall just have to wait for the Kennel Club to officiate.