BODY TYPE - 2
It is very important to remember in this section that these pictures depict either 8 week old puppies or fully mature adults. None of the puppy pictures are of puppies older than 8 weeks of age--except as indicated. If you take pictures of your own puppy or puppies, make sure you take them as close to 8 weeks of age as is possible to compare them to these pictures. Puppies older than 8 weeks begin to show more leg, tend to 'lean out' in body (not look as full) and this gets more and more exaggerated as they grow until they start to fill out again and mature. Do not compare your puppy pictures to these unless they are 8 weeks old in the pictures!!
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NECK: Fairly long, without throatiness, well enough muscled to form a slight arch at the crest. Set smoothly into nicely sloping shoulders.
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The following are some pictures of length of neck. The ones on the right are definitely shorter in neck than the ones on the left. The puppy in the upper left does an especially nice job of showing the neck as "fairly long, without throatiness, well enough muscled to form a slight arch at the crest". You can clearly see the nice arch, the curve, of the neck.
The following depicts a Cavalier, both as a puppy and as an adult, who has a shorter neck.
And here is one with a longer neck, both as a puppy, and as an adult.
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TOPLINE: Back level.
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