Great Danish

Exactly defined as ?the Apolo of the dogs? (their origins mastines and galgos go back to crossovers between), the Dogo, of imposing aspect, majestic and elegant, is one of the giants of the canine races.
With one raised to the cross of 80 centimeters, a weight that surpasses the 80 kilos, equipped with good speed, is the ideal guardian for a house in the field where its presence only can frighten the strangers. Really feared as dog of day-care center and defense is at the same time very good natured with that is to him friend, being something current to see it play with the children.

One of the typical characteristics of the race is the variety of coat that can be of different colors: leonado, atigrado, black, blue, arlequín.

The origin of this race goes back to many centuries. Around the 400, some countries of Europe were invaded by an Asian town that I take with himself molosos dogs like mastines Asian as well descending of old mastín of Tibet. These Barbarians, Mastiff calls - name of which it seems to come one from the denominations that this race receives also used to these dogs against the enemy soldiers and like guardians of their campings. They were robust dogs and of great power but that lacked as well speed and agility. Finished the excursions of the mastiff town, some of these mastines remained in the north of Europe. Exactly to give that elegance them which mastín lacked Asian they were crossed races of galgos like the English or more likely Galgo the great Irish Galgo. As result obtained a dog of great quite at the same time quick power and that was used not only for the day-care center and the combat but also for the hunting of the bear and the wild boar. In this point a dispute arises on which it is his true country of origin. Some present/display it as original of Denmark - this still explains the name used in certain countries for this race of Danish or Great Danish others, and is the most convincing thesis and the one than officially the Cinológica Federation recognizes the International, affirm that the race is German indicating to the region of Württemberg, like the place where it had his origin.

Although it was used, as it were said before for the greater hunting, this race was bred for the safekeeping and the care of the house and the property. In effect, it is not difficult to contemplate to some old pictures or engravings where they reproduce to these strongly subject dogs with chains, mounting guard to the entrance of the houses.

Its general aspect has not changed much in the course of the centuries. One has improved and increased the elegance, the head has been sharpened although it maintains the snout of great power, the union between the neck and the trunk is longer and noble. Anyway, this already then race like now, has always maintained a power and a majesty that do not have comparison. Therefore, we can say with authority, that their typical characteristics were established long ago. This serves once again to demonstrate and to confirm its old origin. Newer and recent races are in continuous evolution whereas the Dogo, however, in his general aspect, aside from the differentiations that we have enumerated above, he has remained substantially inalterable.

Its general aspect does not have to worse give never the impression of excessive slowness or still of stupidity. Long head and narrows with massive snout and dense lips, fierce glance in eyes preferably very dark and of so large means; ears of high insertion with long cut and On guard perfectly raised; long, lean and muscular neck with a slight and elegant curvature; very high cross with straight and solid superior line that descends slightly backwards; solid trunk with thorax developed enough (fallen and deep) maintained by perfectly vertical muscular extremities with compact feet (denominated ?cat feet?); tense and nonabundant skin that gives the right relief him to the musculatura. These are all the characteristics that must have a good Dogo.

Its fierce stamp, noble and elegant, is demonstrated still more when it moves with lengthened pace and elastic adopting an arrogant and very particular attitude.

Therefore, it is a set of force, power, elegance and ferocidad that make of him a dog of great quality.

Coat. The short, shining hair and adhered well in all the body does not have necessity of many cares and attentions. Some cepillada is sufficient to always maintain it in perfect form. The color of the mantle can be leonado or atigrado and in both cases it will have to be accompanied by a very dark mask that, nevertheless, does not have to surpass the line of the eyes not to darken too much the expression. In the atigrado one, the strips must be well noticeable without being confused with the color of the bottom that always appears of more or less intense leonado.

The black and blue variety must have a bright hair without mixtures with clear hairs; arlequín presents/displays a coat with plates more or less extended of shining color black that must stand out net of the bottom always of a perfect target.

Training. Unlike other races, used mainly for the defense like the German Shepherd, the Boxer, the Dobermann etc., the Dogo, since already there are saying, specifically it is used for the day-care center. Understood day-care center as it guards of the house and the people who in her live. It seems evident that as little it serves to educate first and to as much train later to the dog, in a specialized school, since the education as the training is distributed by their proprietor. Then it is precise to begin making him know the property that later it will have to guard, understanding for that reason house and garden and maintaining it as much in the rooms as in the outside. he is advisable to avoid, mainly outside the house, specially in the street, that all caresses it since the dog must mainly feel the affection of the proprietor and his family. Also very important it turns out to make him include/understand that a person who is in the house, jointly with the master, is a person friend and who therefore must be treated like so. As it belongs to a particularly intelligent race is nothing difficult to teach these things to him.

Nevertheless, to which it must specially tend the education of the Dogo, it is not to turn it a fierce one. The wild and irrational ferocidad that sometimes we see in some Dogos is only the fruit of an inadequate education on the part of thoughtless that loves the bad dog ?whatever the cost?. All the dogs, and by all means also the Dogo, beyond the natural terrain features that present/display from the birth, assimilate a series of slight knowledge distributed by the man, since dogs do not exist that are born ferocious and mordedores. They become such by bad treatments or irrational education during which they do not manage to include/understand what is what they must and they do not have to do. These cases, possible acts of ferocidad and violence, are not certainly imputable to the animal but to its master.

The Dogo needs great spaces to move; having it in close places or worse still, tied with chain, modifies substantially its bad and ferocious character exaggerated doing it. If on the contrary it has the possibility of carrying out great displacements and lengths strolls, maintain a character balance that will not cause preoccupations. Therefore, in the election of a puppy it will be precise to know his parents since the hereditary characters are trasmiten to the children through the chromosomes, as it happens in the human sort.

Extremely docile with the proprietors, adults or children, he is however distrustful and aloof towards the strangers without getting to be ferocious or never excessively aggressive.

In remarkable resistance with its power, is the gentleness that the Dogo has towards the children of who friend is made immediately. In its function of safekeeping of the master, its family and her property, the Dogo, if it is necessary, becomes aggressive but without useless ferocidad.

By his characteristics of docilidad together with a great firmness, it is obtaining an ample acceptance more and more in all the continents. In the countries where it is very well-known, bred with it is taken care of and skill and its selection one takes place not only under the aesthetic aspect but also and fundamentally, by the balance of his character that make of him a dog very surely.

Height and weight. Raised to the cross: of 76 to 80 cm. for the 75 males and from 70 to crn. for the females. Weight for both, of 48 to 60 kg.

Head. Extended and frontal marked good narrows with recess naso. Black in the Dogo arlequín where it can be to spots or incarnated safe Trufa. Snout very hard, cut vertically with full lips and the previous profile that forms a right angle with the end of trufa.

Eyes. Semicaídos, of so large means, round, dark, with alive and intelligent expression and long eyebrows.

Ears. Of high insertion, well straight cut in end.

Neck. Of high insertion, long, lean, muscular, with adhered affluent skin, without papada.

Extremities. Long and oblique shoulders, wide and muscular thighs, strong and straight legs like corvejones, round feet with black nails.

Body. Thorax of good amplitude with a developed torácica box that descends previously as much, as to surpass the joints of the elbows. The cross upper marks the point of the back, short and robust. Robust Grupa, slightly sunk that forms a solid line continuous line of trenches with the root of the tail. Belly raised in the later part.

Tail. Of average length it reaches and it exceeds as soon as the end of corvejón the end. On guard of rest it hangs straight line, in excitation or movement it is curved slightly and one rises.

Coat. Very short and tightened, bright adherent and As far as the color the dogos are divided in five groups: 1 - Dogos atigrados. Color of the yellow bottom gold with very evident and continuous black strips cross-sectional. 2 - Dogos leonados. Diverse tonalities of yellow gold with the inferior part of the snout, black. 3 - Dogos blue. Blue color pure steel without yellow nor black reflections. These Dogos can have the clear eyes and some white spot on the back. 4 - Dogos black. Black color shining lacquer. 5 - Dogos with layer white-black or Dogos arlequines. Color of the white bottom with intense black spots of irregular contour.

WEANING. Dogo, belongs thus to one of the races of fast growth, the nutritional exigencies must be respected of way precise not to incur sometimes irreversible problems. In first stage of the weaning, at the end of the first month, the puppies will be fed with easily digeribles products, of optimal quality like smooth cheese, eggs, oil of maize mixed with artificial milk or diluted bovine water milk. As they spend the days, the diet will have to be integrated with small pieces of mixed fresh meat with cooked rice, potato flakes, oats or other cereals that are in the commerce or a Premium food for puppies of fast growth. He is interesting to remember that dogo of sixty days weighs almost twenty times more than what weighed when being born.

POWER NECESSITIES. In the phase of growth, the power necessities decrease as the weight increases, according to the following table:

less than 2.5 230 kg kcal. by kg of alive weight

of 2.5 to 4.5 190 kg kcal. by kg of alive weight

of 4.5 to 7 160 kg kcal. by kg of alive weight

of 7 to 14 145 kg kcal. by kg of alive weight

more than 14 kg (adult phase) 136 kcal. by kg of alive weight

Individual will be put attention with respect to the vitaminic contribution that will have as much to be balanced since its deficiency as their excess can be cause of serious anomalies. A mineral complement by kg of alive weight to the day in the phase of growth of the following way is advised: calcium 0.528 gr., phosphorus 0.44 gr., potassium 0.44 gr., sodium chloride 0.5 gr. The vitaminic necessities by kg of alive weight to the day, always in the phase of growth, are the following ones: vitamin To 200 U.I., vitamin D 20 U.I., vitamin and 2.2 U.l., B2 vitamin. 0,088 mg., vitamin B6 0.044 mg., Hill 66 mg.

THE FIRST MONTHS. In this race, the raquitismo phenomena are more evident that in others and they are shown with swelling in the carpi, rickety rosary, corvejones together and incorrect seriousnesses and are such as to make the forced provision necessary of calcium and vitamin D, whose amount and time of application will have to be established by the Veterinary Doctor. A really useful thing is to give to the puppy the possibility of remaining outdoors, in contact with the sun since through the skin and by the action of ultra-violet rayses, the sintetización of the D2 vitamin is carried out, or calciferol, fundamental for the formation of the bones.

During this period (indeed between the 50 and 90 days of life) the cut of the ears is made if the owner creates it necessary for the aesthetic one of the dog (to this intention opinions opposed between the cinófilos exist).

FREQUENT MALFORMATIONS. Like many other dogs of great size that have the custom to lean and to rub against rough surfaces (pavements of concrete, mats, etc.), also the Dogo is exposed to that callosities in the elbow, the outer surface of the fingers or on the legs form to him. Sometimes these callosities, can appear in slight form although others, extremely heavy, as much as to prevent the dog him to move normally. It is advised therefore, a perrera with quilted floor.

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