Italian Galgo

He is smallest of all the galgos and, certainly, most graceful until the point that century XVII and also the XVIII, became the preferred dog of the nobility and of the ladies who exhibited it in the diverse occasions. Of small construction and extremely, it is defined as ?a model of grace and distinction? that it honors to cinofilia Italian. Although thin, he is nevertheless a good capable and quick hunter being, preferring often to live in close contact with its master to who it dedicates an insurmountable fidelity.
This race also denominated ?Levrette?, is one of the older Italian races and than it has its origin in the old Egyptian Lebrel.
From the times of east Rome dog, although of somewhat greater dimensions, was had in great consideration by the most aristocratic classes as they demonstrate numerous testimonies to it (fresh sculptures, mosaics and) of Roman and preRoman time. Successively one spread by all Europe and from year 1300 there was cut that did not have very many Italian galgos, turned then in ?no dogs of kings?. Between its illustrious admirers we mentioned to Federico the Great one, the Medici, the Gonzaga, the Sforza, Luis XIV. It was therefore obvious that a dog of such lineage was object of attention on the part of the greatest teachers of the European painting. Of the gothic one to the neoclassic one it is the reproduced dog more of all and what it astonishes more it is that, with the course of the centuries it has maintained inalteradas its characteristics of race. Towards half of century XIX, the creation of the Whippet took to a empequeñecimiento of this Italian race with the purpose of which not outside confused with that one. The consequences were quite disastrous since trying to obtain more and more small units and thin, it was arrived at a weakening of the race that quickly presented/displayed problems of fertility and manifestations of enanismo. Once again, they were the Italian criadores that, at the beginning of century, saved this dog and they imposed it with more correct canons, in all the European countries and today bred and it is spread by a great number of enthusiastic. On 1956 the special society - today denominated Circolo of the Piccolo Italian Levriere was founded on Rome that has made modify the old standard taking the raised one to the Maxima cross of 35 cm. to 38 cm., exactly to avoid those so detrimental phenomena, that they took place in the last century.

Today, galgo Italian is a dog of reduced dimensions but very muscular, saltador, quick and fast that are used perfectly for the hunting of the small wild rabbit and that remembers, in miniature, the forms of the Greyhound. The head is long, with the flat skull, the pointed snout and stop little marked. The eyes are great and round, the small, smooth and fine ears that the dog takes well back on the nape of the neck and on the superior part of the neck that lean and is slightly bent. The extremities have light bones but they are muscular. The skin is fine and adherent, with smooth and fine hair. These are the main characteristics of galgo Italian, a likeable dog that it has to walk elegant and by jumps.

Height and weight. Raised to the cross: of 32 to 38 cm. Maximum weight: 5 kg.

Head. Skull and snout of equal length. Black or dark Trufa. Snout in end. Fine and adherent lips to the jaw. Recess naso-frontal, very little marked.

Eyes. Great, dark neither sunk nor excellent. Dark palpebrales edges.

Ears. Of high birth, small, with fine cartilages. Folds on themselves, that the dog takes backwards on the nape of the neck and the superior part of the neck, so that it leaves the part in the open internal.

Neck. Length like the head, with the superior profile slightly bent and abrupt insertion in the cross. Papada devoid tidbit and of.

Previous extremities. Little oblique shoulders. Escápulo-humeral, very obtuse angle. Forearms with very light bones, rectilinear and vertical. Height of the ground to the elbow, little greater than the distance of the elbow to the cross. Metacarpos in line with the forearms.

Body. Length of the trunk inferior or similar to the raised one to the cross. Close chest, flanks that descend until the elbows. Superior profile of the back, rectum. Back-lumbar region, bent. Belly very dissuaded. Grupa very sunk.

Later extremities. Long, lean thighs, with net separated muscles of the others. Legs with thin bones.

Feet. Small, emaciated, with form almost made oval, bent and united fingers to each other. Black or dark nails and plantar pads. Made oval later feet less than the previous ones.

Tail. Of in first half and curved low, fine and tapered, rectilinear birth in second.

Coat. Smooth and fine hair. Color: black uniform, gray, slate, isabella (white yellowish), in all the recordings. It can have target on the chest and the extremities.

FEEDING. The necessities in Kcal. daily like ration of maintenance, they have settled down in 390 for the units whose weight is not superior to the 5 kg and in 450 for those of 5 kg or something more. It is an animal that adapts very well to live in a floor of city therefore, those values single will undergo modifications in the females during the state of gestation and the lactancia. In the units with intense physical activity, the necessities in Kcal. daily, they are duplicated.

DAILY CARES. Although of small dimensions, this dog must have a sufficiently ample space where to be able to move and to develop its personality, also with the race. Due to the characteristics of the layer of smooth and fine hair, well-taken care of individuals are not required.

WITH THE VETERINARIAN. In some males the inguinal or abdominal retraction of one of the two testicles is pronounced (criptorquidia). This situation is normal up to ten days after the birth, when normally the testicles descend through inguinal channel to escroto, but in some units, this problem can be solved of natural way at the age of nine or ten months. For the units in which the problem of criptorquidia persists, it must say that until the present moment therapies do not exist that can solve it. Also it presents/displays this race, mainly in the males, problems of carenciales dermatitises that must be object of consultation with the specialist

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