Bull to terrier

It is certainly between terrier, more hard and in general one of the strongest and insensible dogs to the pain, able to fight until the death, in spectacles that luckyly time does that they have been prohibited, although in some places, unfortunately, they are continued making in clandestine form. Of all ways, it is an excellent dog of day-care center, that sometimes exaggerates in its ferocidad towards the strangers and, therefore, has necessity of a master that knows to moderate its dangerous impetuosidad and, naturally, to count on ample spaces to move.
The father of this surprising race, in his present aspect, was James Hinks, criador of Birmingham, that towards 1860 improved it, because then she was very heavy, making it more agile for the cruel combats between dogs that were very fashionable in those times. Originally, the Bull to terrier came from old crossovers between the Bulldog and the Fox to terrier, and only later, according to it seems by work of M. Hinks, blood of the Dalmatian and other terrier English targets is gotten up to him. Abolished the combats, the Bull to terrier affirmed quickly in the Anglo-Saxon countries like day-care center dog, spreading in all the colonies.

The constitution of this dog is as to be elevated in the true ?gladiator? of cinofilia, with position of the great solidity and robust and powerful trunk. The most interesting detail of this race is certainly the head, whose form must but approximately be made oval the possible thing, without no plan of recess naso-frontal. The snout is equipped with a set of teeth exceptionally hard. The neck is very muscular.

Height and weight. They are not established by the official standard.

Head. Of made oval form, enough it releases and deep, without stop. Powerful bones. In front it cuts.

Eyes. Sunk well, small almendrados, dark, next to the ears that to the nose.

Ears. Small, raised, fine, next to each other.

Neck. Very muscular, devoid of papada.

Previous extremities. Long, not excessively perfectly straight, with strong bones. Robust and muscular but nonheavy shoulders, with paletilla ample.

Body. Cleared and massive. Abarriladas ribs either, with intercostal or developed muscles. Short, strong and muscular back. Deep and ample thorax. Straight dorsal line, bent slightly only towards the kidneys.

Later extremities. Straight lines, views from back. Very muscular thighs. Corvejones inclined well. Bones of tarso and metatarso, cut and solid.

Feet. Small, gathered (of the type ?of cat?).

Tail. Relatively short, of birth not too high, heavy in the fine base and in the end. Taken normally straight and horizontal, but raised until reaching the vertical when the dog is excited.

Coat. Short, compact, aterciopelado, relatively hard. Color: all target; target with black and atigradas spots on the head or the ears or in both; leonado or atigrado with or without white spots in the extremities, the head and the thorax; black, leonado or white tricolor.

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities this robust one terrier are calculated between 1 400 and 1,600 Kcal. daily, like ration of maintenance.

DAILY CARES. The cleaning of the layer and the skin must be made daily with a horsehair glove that is to go the body mainly. This glove will have periodically to wash with a solution disinfectant, so that it does not become vehicle of infections.

DISEASES. It has been described in the Bull to terrier a disease of hereditary character that produces, after certain time of the birth the opacity of the crystalline (that is to say, of the located double convex lens behind the pupil). This disease affects eyes both. The only well-known therapy until now is the surgical one, that consists of the extraction of the crystalline. Due to the hereditary character of this disease, the affected units must be excluded from the reproduction.

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