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Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree.

Serious faults

• Hyper aggressive, timid
• Head short and round with protruding eyes
• Hypertypical bulldoggy : flat skull, muzzle measuring less than a quarter of total head length
• Important lateral deviation of the lower jaw
• Incisors constantly visible when the mouth is closed
• Arched back
• Fused but not deviated vertebrae of the tail
• Forefeet turning inwards (even slightly)
• Forefeet turning outwards too much
• Flat thighs
• Angle of the hock too open (straight angulation)
• Angle of the hock too closed, dog standing under himself behind
• Cow hocks or barrel hocks
• Stilted movement or serious rolling of rear
• Excessive shortness of breath, rasping
• White on tip of tail or on the front part of the forelegs, above the carpus and the tarsus

Disqualifying faults

• Long, narrow head with insufficiently pronounced stop, with a muzzle measuring more than a third of the total length of the head (lack of type in head)
• Muzzle parallel to the top line of the skull or downfaced, Roman nose
• Twisted jaw
• Mouth not undershot
• Canines constantly visible when the mouth is closed
• Tongue constantly hanging out when the mouth is closed
• Tail knotted and lateraly deviated or twisted (screw tail, kink tail)
• Atrophied tail
• Fiddle front with splay feet
• Angle of the hock open towards the rear (tarsal deviated towards the front)
• White on the head or body, any other colour of the coat than fawn
• Identifiable disabling defect

Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.

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