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Typically English dog, turned the symbol of this nation during the World-wide Championship of Soccer that I am carried out in Great Britain during year 1966. It is the fruit of a meticulous selection that, developing the most typical anomalies, an interesting dog ?in its fealdad? has done of him. Docile, tame, sluggish and loving of the comfort, the Bulldog of single today resembles itself in the physicist its ferocious ancestor who, until half of the last century, fought in sands against the bulls in bloody spectacles.
He is doubtless that this race ?has been created? in England and that his predecessor was the Asian Mastín, father of almost all the European colossuses. By him, still corresangre of ferocious ?the Pugnaces Britani?. The trustworthy news that are had around the 1200 or they were used in combat with other dogs or bulls.
It is known that, until half of century XIX, when these brutales spectacles were prohibited, there was no town in Great Britain that did not have a sand or Ring where those manifestations took place every week. It was by that time when the British parliament prohibited those spectacles.
Since then, the race not only had a net declination but that modified much until arriving at the present Bulldog that very little conserves of the old ?dog bull?.
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As it were said, the present Bulldog is fruit of a careful selection that does to this possessing race of permanent anomalies. In effect, today it presents/displays a wide previous third and powerful and one pelvis narrows and fine so that seen from above it has the form of a pear in which the end, could well be the tail.
But he is not everything, no other race has a size of head - in proportion to as great body as to make the childbirth difficult that, habitually, is carried out with Caesarean. Returning at the top, this one must have skull wider than long, cheeks very cleared, almost nonexistent nasal cane, sunk in stop very marked. You fold them must be had very tight way and the snout, shortest, must be widest possible with a very evident and marked chin. The previous, wide and powerful extremities maintain to a thorax with cleared affluent perimeter. The superior line, starting off of a crack located behind shoulders, raises until grupa, forming a profile defined as of ?back in carp?. Finally, grupa is high and quite rigid doing in addition that the Bulldog walks of a denominated typical way ?in ends?.
The present Bulldog, in spite of its cruel and ferocious appearance, is one of the calmest dogs. All its old ferocidad has disappeared being replaced by a laziness without comparison between the other canine races. In addition, it likes to play with the children supporting with great patience all its misdeeds. It lives perfectly in a reduced space whenever the care of not tiring to him is had and maintaining to him remote much of the sun because, by the conformation of his snout, it has serious respiratory difficulties.
Height and weight. Height that oscillate between the 30 and 40 cm., weight around the 24-25 kg for the males and 22-23 kg for the females.
Head. Very wide skull: its circumference would have to be equal to the raised one to the cross of each unit. Cheeks that extend to the sides, beyond the eyes.
Eyes. Located relatively low to the height of trufa, very distant to each other and of the ears, its external angle is in the same line of the cheeks. Round, of medium size, neither sunk nor salient, very dark as much, that they must seem black.
Ears. Of high insertion on the head, fine and of small dimensions, with the doubled superior edge so that they let see a good part of the interior of the lobe.
Neck. Enough short, been nauseated well in lateral papada the superior and abundant part that, starting off of the inferior jaw, arrives until the chest.
Previous extremities. Shoulder wide, oblique and deep, very muscular. Very vigorous legs, something short in comparison to the later ones and very distanced to each other. Low and well separated elbows of the thorax.
Body. Ample, convex chest, that extends from above of shoulders to the end of the breastbone and descends between the previous extremities. Turned affluent thorax, with the ribs that are demonstrated clearly. Raised belly, without fall.
Later extremities. Legs very great and muscular slightly curved and metatarsos short, corvejones next to the feet and turned aside outwards.
Tail. Of low insertion, enough it cuts, directed to the base and folded in end, it takes it generally low.
Coat. Fine, short, compact and soft. With respect to the color the Bulldog also can be of continuous tonality (admitting all the range of the yellow to the leonado one, frequently with more black face on the snout) or arlequín that is to say, with the black and white one alternated.
FEEDING. Animal equipped with a good very goloso appetite, must find a proprietor who does not exceed in the rations and he turns to him obese, to which is exposed the Bulldog, more than any other race. The necessities in kcal. daily it varies between 850 and 950. It is a good norm to integrate the diet with vitamin To and H to give to the skin a greater defense capabilities.
WITH THE VETERINARIAN. Between the affections to which the skin of the Bulldog is exposed and which they can be prepared with the vitaminic complements that we have mentioned above, deserves to name, by his greater frequency and gravity, a dermatitis form that appears in you fold them of the skin. This affection arises in those points where the skin is subject to a prolonged friction, with a humid aspect that successively can be complicated by the presence of germs of secondary irruption.
The affected places more, you fold them face, the skin between the fingers the perianal zone, to perivulvar in the female, etc., later require a therapy based on the careful cleaning of those zones and a medication with pomadas with corticoids and antibiotics.
We must also remember that the Bulldog can be prearranged to a congenital cardiopathy, consisting of the estenosis of the pulmonary valve. This malformation that affects the right part of the heart, can be the cause of a defective growth of the puppy, with little resistance and the possibility of serious complications, until the death in an adult individual. The cardiological examinations will be therefore fundamental to already exclude in the puppy such cardiopathy.
Finally, the Bulldog characterizes by an excessive activity of the glands thyroid, disease that denominates hipertiroidismo.
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