Archive for December 18th, 2008

Dog World Abbreviations starting with the letter “B”

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Balanced: A dog is correctly proportional.

BB or BOB: Best of Breed

BIS: Best in Show

BOS or OS: Best of Opposite (Gender)

Bodied Up: A dog is well developed and mature with a good spring of ribs.

Brisk: Keenly alive, alert, energetic

Butterfly Nose: White flesh marks on nose and this is a fault: Very young puppies sometimes will not have a full black nose until they reach 8 or 10 weeks of age. Butterfly noses can fade with age.

BW: Best of Winners

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