Rottweiler

Also call German Cowherd, the Rottweiler is a frightful dog of defense: of size not very great, it has a remarkable force. In the defense of his master and the house, it shows a determination that, sometimes arrives at the ferocidad. In general terms, it is a dog not very elegant that by its aspect instills fear and respect. He is very clean, thanks to his layer of smooth hair and black color with spots fire. Encariña very many with its master, with whom it likes to play, revealing a character unsuspectedly cheers.

This dog, from ancient origin, arrives at Germany with the Roman legions. It descends therefore of old mastines or Molosos and, at first, he was used for the safekeeping of the campings and the cattle that the armies used to take with himself to make sure the sustenance during their campaigns. More ahead, one extended fundamentally by the region of Wurttemberg and in special in the city of Rottweil of which it has taken his name. During long time it also continued being guardian of the cattle constituting itself, in the preferred dog of the butchers, as much is thus, that frequently it was called exactly ?butcher dogs to him?. At the end of century XIX, it had disappeared almost completely but patiently it was reconstructed on the base of a very strict selection, using the few surviving units. In this way an optimal dog of defense, easily domestic servantable obtained itself.

It has a force and a value outside the common thing, also being equipped with a good sense of smell. By this quality, from the beginnings of century XX, a greater acceptance has spread by all Europe and Norte of America, obtaining more and more to the point of being used in some countries like helping of the bodies of the police and the army.

It is a dog of size superior to the average, that must never seem neither too heavy nor excessively light. It has a powerful and massive body with a great muscular development. Its character must very be balanced and therefore it is precise to discard the too afraid or very ferocious units that behave with badness. The skull is relatively ample and the ears well are distanced to each other, are small and of triangular form, that the dog takes very ahead hanging and, mainly when is kind. The snout must be strong, not too long, with powerful set of teeth and perfect closing to scissors. The eyes of dark color must denote loyalty and value. Characteristics of the body are: the strong neck and the bent, fallen thorax deep, with a very solid superior line. The extremities are muscular with good bones and well vertical. The tail is cut in the second vertebra. The layer is provided with short hair, uniforms the body, very dense mainly. The only admitted color is the black with spots fire, darkest possible and marked well on the snout, the chest, the extremities and in the forehead, over the eyes.

Raised to the cross. Males of 60 to 68 cm., females of 55 to 63 cm.

Head. Moderately it releases, with wide skull between the ears. Slightly convex frontal line, Vista of flank. Quite wide Trufa, of dark color. Straight nasal cane, of an equal length to the distance between the occipital crest and stop. Adherent lips affluent with the black edges. Zygomatic arc noticeable good. Strong set of teeth with closing in scissors. Well pronounced Stop. Little evident occipital protuberance.

Eyes. Of medium size and dark brown color, it presents/displays adherent eyelids affluent.

Ears. Small. Triangular very moved away to each other, of very high insertion.

Neck. Hard, round and wide, slightly curved, devoid completely of papada.

Previous extremities. Long and oblique shoulders. The stuck to body but not united affluent arm.

Developed and muscular affluent forearm. Joint of the elastic, robust but slightly nonrigid carpus. Round feet, closed and been nauseated well.

Body. Thorax extensive, wide and deep, rounder than made oval. Short and solid back. Short renal Zona, robust deep v. Short Grupa, not sunk. Flanks slightly dissuaded.

Later extremities. Short, wide thigh with robust musculatura. Long leg with strong musculatura in the superior part. Corvejones marked well, not very flexible but either very rigid. Feet a little more lengths than the previous ones, closed well, with strong fingers, without spurs.

Tail. It cuts, of high insertion, prolongs the dorsal line horizontally. The dog takes horizontal to it although frequently already it is born without tail.

Coat. Short, dense and straight, slightly extended in the extremities and the tail. Subpelo limited the back, does not emerge over the hair. Color: black with spots fire on the cheeks, the snout and the chest, the extremities and next to each eye. These spots go of the brown-mahogany to the brown-clear one.

FEEDING. The necessities in Kcal. in ration of maintenance they have calculated in 1700 daily ones. It has always been a good dining room: at a time he was bred by the butchers Germans who did not scrimp meat to him, despoliation, etc.

Now one has adapted to a omnívora feeding but conserving a good appetite.

DAILY CARES. Provided with a layer of short hair and tightened and with a subhair limited the region of the neck and the thighs, it requires for his cleaning a bristle brush.

WITH THE VETERINARIAN. Frequently the Rottweiler is born without tail. In case the puppy has a very long one, it must be cut. The possible spurs, already visible from the birth, also must take off.

By its frequency in the Rottweiler, a osteopática affection has been distinguished that consists of a retardation of the osificación. Actually a delay in the apophyses of the transformation of the cartilages in bones exists.

Between the causes that prearrange to such affection, is the excessive feeding. The joints of corvejón can more be the affected zones.

The diagnosis is based on the radiological analysis as well as in the clinical observation. The therapy is almost exclusively surgical.

 

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