Airedale

Giant of the race to terrier, the Airedale is also an excellent dog of defense and as so it were classified until it makes few years by the Cinológica Federation the International. Robust and strong dog, is particularly effective in the animal hunting like the fox, and is very faithful, brave and intelligent, qualities that turn it an ideal companion, able, according to the case, to take part of way decided in defense of the own tutor.
The Airedale to terrier has been originated in the English region of Yorkshire and its name comes from the one of a river of this region, the Air.
It seems that it descends from the Otterhound, optimal hunter of otters, crossed the Old english to terrier. The Bull absolutely does not seem strange to this race also to terrier, that would have given to force and vigor to the new product.
The young began towards half of century XIX, and quickly, the Airedale was made appreciate in many countries of Europe and America. In Canada, they began to use it for the capture of the bear. The official recognition took place in 1878 and has fixed definitively the standard and the name of race, that before was Waterside to terrier or Bringley to terrier.

Dog of strong and robust constitution, the Airedale to terrier has in movement one of its basic characteristicses: it must move with the extremities always well parallel and with fort it pushes of the later part, which confers to him to walk that it can define as ?a pulls?.
The head is enough long with stop hardly visible, the snout, fort, and the set of teeth, impressive.

Height and weight. Males, of 58 to 61 cm. ideal Weight for the males, 20.5 kg; females, a little lighter.

Head. Black Trufa. Completely adherent lips. Deep and powerful jaws. Conical, strong and made level teeth. Hardly visible Stop. Long and flat skull, a little more length than the snout.

Eyes. Small, dark, nonsalient.

Ears. In form of ?V?, taken laterally with the folded forcebody.

Neck. Net, muscular, of moderate length, being high and mighty gradually towards shoulders, devoid of protuberances in the throat.

Previous extremities. Perfectly straight, with strong bones. Perpendicular elbows to the body.

Body. Short, strong, straight and made level back, salient ribs, had way to leave to little space among them and the haunches. Deep, but nonwide thorax. Long and muscular later part.

Later extremities. Long and powerful thighs, with ?second muscular thigh?. Metatarsos folded, not returned well neither inwards nor outwards. Corvejones robust and parallel sights from back.

Feet. Small, round, compact, with well quilted deep plants and. Nails moderately bent, are returned neither inwards nor outwards.

Tail. Of high birth, it is not coiled on the back.

Coat. Hard, dense, thorny, not too long, with shorter and smooth subhair. Color: head, ears and extremities, yellow-brown, dark black or gray body.

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities, divided according to the size and sex, calculate, like ration of maintenance, in the males from the 1,250 to 1,400 and in the females, from the 1,150 to 1,250 Kcal daily. Conditions of insufficient nutrition, as well as an excess of foods at diverse physiological moments, is detrimental for the health of the dog.
Let us remember that the prevention of the infectious diseases is also very united to the diet.

DAILY CARES. It is a dog considered by his particularly resistant nature to the physical efforts, the unfavorable environmental conditions and the diseases. For this reason, besides to have an excellent sense of smell, in other times he was used for the hunting. To the Airedale it likes to plunge itself in the water, where it seems to be perfectly to taste in any station.

 

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