American Cocker

This likeable dog of American origin, left definitively of hunting lands, has become an excellent dog of company. Of likeable and pleasant aspect, it has a very affectionate and faithful character that takes it to be united - of sickly way to the family of the master, but distrusting of the strangers. Few are the enthusiastic ones that still use it like dog search, in which it demonstrates to a great passion and temperament and a truely unsuspected resistance.
It has be dividing of the English Cocker spaniel that the Americans, towards second half of century XIX, began ?to construct? this likeable dog. The selection was conducted in two-way traffic: the fixation of the tipicidad characteristics - that in this race very are marked in the head, the trunk and, in addition, in walking and the selection of the layers. The dog that obtained itself as result achieved a fast success firstly, spreading by all United States and later in Europe and Australia.
At the present time, the American Cocker is a race extended by many countries and continues waking up the interest and the affection in the canine exhibitions. Their joy, its jovial character and juguetón and its aspect characteristic and of certain ?aristocratic? way, have turned it a company and luxury dog almost exclusively. To it it has contributed of determining way, also, the selection carried out exclusively on his morphology, in reduction of his remarkable qualities venatorias, to satisfy the exigencies with the single people, who have necessity of the company of a dog (and in the United States of America they are still very numerous), more than those of the hunters.

The general aspect is the one of an pleasant and elegant dog, which is still more put in evidence by his to walk eloquent and agile. Very important it is the size that, altogether, does not have to surpass the maximum allowed by the standard (male, 39.7 cm.; females, 36.8 cm.), under penalty of disqualification of the unit. The head, very modeled, has the wide and deep snout, with a robust set of teeth that is closed to scissors. The lips give to the snout the necessary quadrature. The skull is cleared, and the ears - without place to doubts the showiest characteristic of this race, and that has influenced more than no other in which it is continued maintaining as company race is of good insertion, very long and adorned with waved flecos. The eyes are round, with the rainbow of color that agrees with the one of the layer and with an expression vivaz, frank letter and. The trunk has the strong back that descends de la Cruz to the union from the tail, with an oblique line, and whose length must be nearest possible the raised one to the cross. The torácica box is ample, deep fall and. The inferior extremities perfectly are plumbed, with robust bones and good musculatura. The feet are round, well compact, with very hard plantar pads. The tail must be shaken when the dog moves.

Raised to the cross. Ideal, males, 37.6 cm.; females, 35 cm.

Head. Snout and skull of equal length. Dark brown black Trufa or, with developed nasal graves good. Superior lip that covers the inferior jaw. Wide and deep snout, with square and regular jaws. Cleared skull. Marked central furrow.

Eyes. Neither fitted nor salient, of countersink-dark or brown color, according to the tonality of the layer.

Ears. Of birth on the line of the eyes, long until trufa, had with silky hair.

Neck. Enough length, muscular, slightly been nauseated, without papada.

Previous extremities. Straight lines, with strong bones. Strong shoulders, inclined but not excessively. Fallen elbows affluent. Metacarpos short and strong.

Body. Distance between the cross and the birth of the tail, almost equal to the raised one to the cross. Deep thorax until the elbows. Well abarriladas strong ribs and. Regularly oblique back from the cross to the base of the tail.

Later extremities. With strong bones and musculatura. Inclined well and parallel powerful thighs, corvejones strong.

Feet. Compact and round, with strong and coriáceos pulpejos and hairs between the fingers.

Tail. Of birth in the line of the dorsal profile.

Coat. Plane or slightly waved, of silky texture, short on the head and of average length on the rest of the body, with abundant subhair. Flecos in the ears, in the thorax, the abdomen and in the later part of the extremities. Color: black, black with spots fire, red, brown, color chamois, cream, always unicolor color.

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities like ration of maintenance, are included/understood between the 770 and the 870 Kcal. daily for the adult unit. A nutritional excess in the inactive units or little stimulated to make exercise, can easily cause the obesity that, as well, a greater predisposition to serious upheavals has like consequence, like arthritis, reumatismo, hernias of vertebrales discs, the respiratory difficulties, etc.

DAILY CARES. The state of health of the dog depends, to a great extent, of the proprietor, who must respect the one norms balanced feeding, to guarantee good environmental conditions and periodic controls to him of lees and the state of health of the skin and the layer, not forgetting the annual vaccinations.

DISEASES. It has been described in the American Cocker, like in other races of dogs, the appearance of an opacity of the crystalline (cataract) of probable hereditary origin. Such opacity remarkably reduces the visual capacity of the animal.

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