giant Schnauzer

He is greatest of the family who, also understands, to the medium one and the dwarf. Optimal dog of day-care center and defense, has a character signs and determined, calm and balance but at the same time is easily adiestrable, which makes possible its use in different tasks. It has a peak altitude of 70 cm., an approximated weight of 35 kg and exists in the variety of black color and ?salt and pepper?. It likes much to run to jump and to be outdoors, thus is to him very difficult to adapt to the life in a floor of city.
One is a relatively recent derivation of the medium Schnauzer, nevertheless, the most remote origins of this race must look for in the Cowherd of Flandes and the old dogs of shepherd of the Tirol and Württemberg. Of the medium Schnauzer crossed the Cowherd of Flandes and mastín German one pays attention, around 1880, the giant race that, by its character, obtains immediately a great acceptance like day-care center dog. Initially it was the dog of the brewers and the butchers of Munich, extending later through all Germany and also by the foreigner.

Substantially it is an extended copy of the medium Schnauzer, is therefore a solid, compact dog, with the trunk of equal length to the raised one to the cross. The set must give the idea of an elegant but nongraceful nor weak animal. The extended head is equipped with good defenses (abundant beard, moustaches and eyebrows hirsutas) and acquires, profile Vista, a rectangular aspect. The ears of very high insertion can be cut. The snout, with parallel line to the one of the skull, very hard has a set of teeth with scissors closing. The elegant neck and of good length, is united to the trunk with a wide and robust base. The developed thorax either in the three dimensions (length wide and depth), presents/displays joints with noticeable angles or and solid the superior line, conferring to the Riesenschnauzer that aspect of typical power of the race. Of particular importance it is the layer that can be black or you leave and pepper, is covered by a particularly hard and rough superficial hair, with woolly subhair. The hair as a whole must be always straight and uniformly distributed mainly the body, except in the head in the ears where he is shorter and it lacks subhair. However, on the eyes and the snout, he is longer forming beard and eyebrows hirsutas and hard the smoothness of the hair or its undulation, is considered defects very serious). It has to walk very elastic, typical of all the robust races.

The character of this dog that is to be noble, loyal must be considered specially and of great balance; aggressive or uselessly miedosos units are penalized. The training of the giant Schnauzer is quite easy and today it is included within the defense races (jointly to the Cowherd and the Dobermann), obtaining an interest every greater time in all the countries, in many of which it is used like helping of the police bodies. The training, like for the other utilitarian races, must begin gradually, without haste and mainly without pressures.

Raised to the cross: Of 65 cm. to 75 cm. for the males and of 60 cm. to 65 cm. for the females.

Head. Powerful and it releases, of rectangular form. Jaw with developed affluent musculatura. Line superior of the parallel head to the nasal cane. Robust snout that finishes in a truncated cone, with trufa heavy, spongy and black. Adhered and black lips affluent. Strong set of teeth, completes and with scissors form.

Eyes. Made oval and of dark color perfectly directed forwards. The conjuntivas are not visible

Ears. Of high insertion, they can be cut so that they stay raised.

Neck. Of strong insertion, with robust and bent nape of the neck. Adhered affluent skin and without you fold.

Previous extremities. Oblique Paletilla with strong flat muscles. Angular forearm. Perpendicular extremities from any part that watches them, with strong bones.

Body. Developed affluent thorax with flat ribs, of made oval section that arrives beyond the elbow. Breastbone located over the level of the joints of shoulders. Inferior line of the thorax that is united to the belly with a slight retraction. Robust renal part and cuts. Straight dorsal line and grupa slightly cleared. Length of the equal body to the raised one to the cross.

Later extremities. Anguladas with particularly robust and muscular joints and oblique thighs well.

Feet. Round (cat feet), with resistant and hard plants, fingers affluent united to each other and dark nails.

Tail. Of high insertion, not very long and cut generally in the third vertebra, but never beyond fourth.

Coat. Hard and rough similar to the bristle and woolly subhair. In the head the hair is hard and short, without subhair. Beard and eyebrows very developed. Color: black or even salt and pepper like the medium Schnauzer.

FEEDING. The Daily necessities in Kcal for the adult dog are of 1.900-2.000 in ration of maintenance. During the growth, the daily necessities very are elevated. A puppy of 5 kg of weight has 900-1,000 power necessities of Kcal per day. In effect, they are considered sufficient to cover the daily necessities with growth in the puppies, the doses in Kcal that consumes an adult of he himself weight, multiplied by 2,2.

DISEASES. The giant Schnauzer, like other dogs of great size, can suffer of a very serious syndrome due to an excess of carnivorous feeding. An abundant dose of meat, that contains an insufficient amount of calcium, produces a serious imbalance from which it derives a nutritional secondary hiperparatiroidismo. One is a compensation mechanism that takes to a use of calcium of the bones with the consequent deformation and reduction of the endurance of such. The therapy consists of the provision from 15 to 20 g. of calcium carbonate by each kg of meat.

WITH THE VETERINARIAN. The cut of the ears is preferable to make it when the dog counts between sixty and ninety days of life.

Provided with a layer of hard hair and woolly subhair, the giant Schnauzer, it resists the atmospheric elements perfectly

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