Beagle

He is smallest of the English, used for the hunting of the hare and the wild rabbit, in groups, more or less numerous bloodhounds. With a very pleasant and likeable character, one is very quick and certain in the hunting, knowing to follow the sign of the animals and coming near them very well quickly and great security. Very clean and little noisy, it can live perfectly in the house where it occupies little space, without demanding a concerted effort to him to its proprietor.

The origins of this dog are very old: it existed already in century III as it demonstrates a Scottish poetry to it of that time.
The Beagle found its moment of special glory in the times of Isabel I who had a deposit in the cut, taking care of its dogs with great passion. Successively the Beagle had periods of forgetfulness when quicker dogs for the hunting of the hare and other animals preferred themselves. It more surely took the lost terrain when, crossed the Harrier, one became quicker and for the hunting. Towards half of century XIX, it is introduced in France that from then became his second mother country.
More ahead, by his optimal natural terrain features, one also spread in America where until today he is very popular as much in the canine exhibitions as in the hunting atmosphere where it is used for the fox and the raccoon or osito washer.
Today this race is very popular, spread by all the parts and appreciated by its sweet and smooth character, its great cleaning and also because its raising almost never presents/displays great difficulties. Nevertheless it holds a sad ?record?, since it is the used dog more for the drug experimentation and the vivisection, in his crueler forms.

It is very a well provided dog and of harmonious lines, of compact constitution, that moves with determination and soltura. It has the powerful head in proportion to the trunk, without never pretending to be too heavy nor coarse. The ears are long, of low and wide enough birth, cleared well in their flat ends and taken against the head. The trunk is short, compact and solid, with the located tail enough it arrives and of good length. The extremities have strong bones, in perfect seriousness, and the feet well compact, are closed and round. The layer is constituted by smooth, flat hair, very dense, a little more length in the final part of the tail. The skin quite fine and is well adhered mainly the body with the exception of the neck where papada forms a small one.

Raised to the cross. Of 33 to 40 cm.

Head. Of medium length, powerful but noncoarse. Black, wide Trufa, with developed nasal graves good. Nonpointed snout. Hanging lips. Skull with form of cupola, moderately wide. Well marked Stop.

Eyes. Not sunk nonglobosos, of brown color or it countersinks.

Ears. Long, of low birth, fine texture, pendants throughout the cheeks.

Neck. Moderately long, little been nauseated, with slight papada.

Previous extremities. Straight lines and forts. Straight shoulders and slightly inclined. Metacarpos short.

Body. Short with fallen affluent thorax. Curved enough ribs. Strong and nonprominent kidneys.

Later extremities. Very muscular thighs. Metacarpos curved. Corvejones low and angulados well.

Feet. Round, with robust fingers and strong plantar pads.

Tail. Of medium length, high birth.

Coat. There are two varieties: smooth and hard. In the first hair he is relatively long, in the second, shortest one. It can be of all the colors.

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities calculated as ration of maintenance Kcal is of 750 - 850. Daily. It is an animal particularly equipped with a very fine sense of smell with a great fatigue strenght and a good speed that manages to maintain, in the pursuit of the prey, being specially apt for the hunting in pack. In conditions of work, the contributions above indicated, get to duplicate themselves.

DISEASES. In many species animals, it exists defects of coagulation of the blood, hereditary origin that are grouped under the name of hemofilia. In the Beagle young, a deficiency of factors VIIIº and Xº has been described, like hemáticas serious cause of loss. In the same race a deficiency of the factor VII° exists (important for the mechanism of the coagulation) that, nevertheless, it does not determine serious disadvantages.

PARTICULAR USE. The units of smaller size, in addition to being destined to the hunting are used, lamentably with certain frequency, in the research laboratories like ?cobay?. By its docile character and because never they practically bite the man, they are used for the drug experimentation and even, of certain operations with scientific objectives

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