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	Gidan's head doesn't please me only because of its fine expression - I should rather say : its manifold expressions ! But the mainly thing is that his head morphology is really a model for my breeding. Its proportions are right, unfortunately too many Croatian Sheepdogs show too short muzzle ; in Gidan's head, the stop is gently sloping, and the skull is just a little oval and with small difference in level between the muzzle and the top of the skull, unluckily a lot of Croatian Sheepdogs have too strong stop and too much difference in level between muzzle and skull, moreover too much oval and even round skull can be found too. So it appears that Gidan's head isn't at all widespread enough in the breed, and in a breeding point of view, such a good head is a real treasure. But Gidan has also other qualities : his normal coat is curly enough, and EVEN ON THE FLANKS, it can be deplored that too many dogs show some curly and long enough hair on the back and around the neck, but very poor hair on the sides and even sometimes on the back part of he legs ; Gidan is correctly built, with right standings, but too with the right line of the back : I want to say that, when the dog stands normally, the angles of the forelegs and those of the hind legs make the line of the back go down slightly from the neck to the tail (while being straight, of course) - and unfortunately once again, this can't be found in all Croatian Sheepdogs, sometimes it can be found even severe faults. Gidan is dry, with long enough legs, all his body is made for jumping and for running, running at top speed, able to corner at full speed too, etc. Some could consider that his forelegs are too slight, despite of the standard which write the same, I would agree but only to a certain degree, I want to say that his legs could be just a little bigger, but the Croatian Sheepdog must not become a heavy dog, with big bones, and must not too lose neither the long legs nor the dryness of the whole body. Of course Gidan's morphology isn't perfect, for example the colour of his eyes : the center is dark brown, but all around the colour is rather amber-coloured. Nonetheless, his eyes are the more sparkling pearls of the treasure ! But what would be the good of a dormant treasure ? A treasure must be used to make things go better ! And a treasure is meant to be passed on through the times thanks to the inheritance ! By the way, thanks to Gidan's treasure, Fango got a daughter who showed prick ears the day she was just eight weeks ! And it seems that Gidan's head left its mark ... Nevertheless, Gidan's main treasure is the love that lives inside his eyes, and love is the inheritance of the age ... 07/07/08 Isabelle Coquinot