napolitano Mastín

She is one of the Italian more characteristics and known races. Its aspect can be defined as ?loaded of history? because its origin is very remote. Dog of guard par excellence, has found in the Partenopea River basin its natural cradle that has defended it of the time, the events, and even of the men. With a height of up to 72 cm. and a weight of 70 kg, it prefers the spaces outdoors where it can move to pleasure. It has been the symbol of the canine world-wide exhibition taken to end enVerona, in June of 1980.

The origin of this race is lost at night of the times. It descends certainly from the Mastín of the Tibet that, through the Molosos, servants by the Greeks - so wanted by Alexander Magno- it arrived in the times from magna Greece at the coasts of the region of the Italian Campania. These dogs were bred with skill by the Romans who used them for the combat and like guardians. Of here the well-known definition of ?militant? (pugnaces). The history of this race follows the passages of the one of the Roman empire. With the fall of this last one, those colossuses almost disappeared. Few units conserved very jealously by some enthusiastic criadores were only saved, thanks to which this ?monument? has been able to arrive until us. The last ?touch? has been given by the cinólogo well-known and writer Piero Scanziani who, in the immediate postwar period, recovered splendid units that, selected with taken care of and skill gave remarkable results. Since then, it does not turn out exaggerated to say specially that the napolitano Mastín has experienced a certain height, in Italy, that has also gotten to cross its borders.

The impression that gives this race is the one of a dog of great size, fort, vigorous, very brave, of coarse but at the same time majestic aspect. The skin is abundant but nonadherent, forming in the head a series of you fold very noticeable and presenting/displaying in the papada neck a great one.

Strong and powerful extremities, plumbed well. The weight of the napolitano Mastín can arrive at the 70 kg. The characteristics of the head are of fundamental importance: wide skull and, short, very powerful, short snout and with strong noticeable set of teeth, stop and very fleshy lips, cut ears almost completely, eyes made oval, distanced to each other, presenting/displaying the set a series of wrinkles and you fold well noticeable. Massive and very muscular neck, with abundant papada, divided well; wide chest with developed musculatura; ample and cleared thorax. The superior line is solid, the powerful extremities. Another characteristic of the napolitano Mastín is his to walk, contouring and slow to the step and elastic to trote, covering much land. Frequently, when it moves slowly, the dog ambles, that is to say, it simultaneously advances the two extremities of he himself side. This it is to walk that we can define as of ?rest?, typical of some great mammals like elephants and bears. The layer is dense, with short hair, uniforms the body, vitreous mainly to the tact. Their colors are the black, the lead, the gray, the mahogany, leonado and the atigrado one. A white star in the chest is admitted, whenever she is not very extensive.

Optimal as defense and guard dog, has a character signs and determined with the strangers but very sweet with the proprietors. When it is precise, it can inexorably be aggressive against people or animals. Dog that has a special character that makes him be respected.

Height and weight. Raised to the cross: of 65 to 72 cm. for the males and of 60 to 68 cm. for the females. Weight of the 50 to the 70 kg.

Head. It makes solid, it cuts, with the wide skull in the pómulos. Voluminous Trufa with nasal or open and great graves, of black color, dark or brown according to the layer. Rectilinear nasal cane. Abundant and heavy lips. Cheeks that fall on the lips. Well developed robust jaws and. The superior incisors cover to the inferior ones.

Eyes. On guard subfrontal, distanced enough to each other. Color of the equal rainbow to the one of the layer.

Ears. Small in relation to the head, triangular, inserted very over the arches of the pómulos, pendants. If they are amputated, the short one almost completely and in end, almost in form of equilateral triangle.

Neck. Short, coarse, very muscular. Papada that arrives until half of the neck.

Previous extremities. Long shoulders, slightly inclined. Arms affluent together with the trunk with very strong muscles. From the elbow, the length of the previous extremity is approximately half of the raised one to the cross. Foot with made oval form, fingers affluent united to each other and bent. Strong, curved and pigmented nails.

Body. Wide, enough chest open, with muscles very developed. The breastbone is located to level of the unions with shoulders. Ample thorax that more down descends until the level from the elbow or a little, with well cleared long ribs and. The superior profile of the back is straight and only the cross rises net superficially. Slightly convex renal line, sight of profile, with affluent musculatura developed the wide thing. Inner profile of the almost horizontal belly.

Later extremities. They present/display strong bones and marked affluent musculatura with a length smaller than the one of the thigh. Perfectly vertical Metatarso. Wide and very muscular thigh. Made oval foot less than previous and but the small one.

Tail. It is inserted in grupa with a wide base tapering itself towards the end, releases until the joint of corvejón.

Coat. Fine, smooth and short. Color: black, lead, gray-ash-gray, atigrado.

FEEDING. The daily necessities in Kcal, vary between the 2500 and the 3000. In this race, like in other molosos, the problem of the uncontrolled and excessive use of mineral and vitaminic complexes is accentuated, as serious as to irreparably injure the health of the dog. Many proprietors, to obtain exceptional units, exceed much in the nutritional exigencies, causing, in addition to secondary poisonings, nourishing deficiencies. The contribution of vitamins and minerals becomes necessary, when the veterinarian only determines a specific deficiency in the dog.

DISEASES. An excess of hidrosolubles vitamins of group B, does not cause injuries because its elimination, through the urinary routes, is fast. On the contrary, of D and the excesses vitamin, by the fact that these are accumulated in the fat and remain in her during long time, can be particularly dangerous. Overdoses of vitamin D, calcium, phosphorus, can prearrange to the precocious closing of the growth cartilages, to the curvature of the bony elements and to displasia.

DAILY CARES. The cleaning of the coat must be made with a soft brush and a glove for smooth hair.

WITH THE VETERINARIAN. The cut of the ears must so be made towards 70º or 80º day of age and way that the auricular pavilion takes an approximated form from triangle

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