Foxhound

Dog of English sign par excellence, is used for the great huntings straddling the fox, from which it takes the name (Fox in English means fox). Of very pleasant aspect and great size, by its great speed it likes level and clean grounds, adapting bad to the underbrush and particularly difficult lands. Although this type of hunting now already is in disuse, still exist in England and Ireland, some packs that surpass the 100 dogs and that are honors and pride the Anglo-Saxon nobility.
At the end of the Renaissance, when the red deers were made rare more and more, the English nobility wanted to create a resistant and quick dog, adapted for the hunting of the fox.
It was born therefore the Foxhound, fruit of crossover between the Greyhound, the old Staghound, some Terriers and the Bulldog that then did not have the constitution of the present one but that was even upper on the extremities and with a relation between forcebody and later, less abrupt. This dog quickly became the pride of the nobility in the art venatorio for the great huntings to horse, with very numerous packs. Until recently time, one calculated that the existing packs only, in England, were more than one hundred. Outside the Anglo-Saxon countries, this dog little is known and used even, because in continental Europe diverse races of bloodhounds exist who adapt better to the different environmental realities in which they must hunt. To America, finally, a race of American Foxhound of a little inferior size to the one of the English has paid attention.

The Foxhound must appear like a set of force, speed and resistance together with a form harmony, so, that it has made say to the famous English cinólogo Stonehenge, that is one of the most beautiful dogs To see hunt it in pack, in the English countrysides, is truely a spectacle of rare beauty, with the green one of the meadows that serve as bottom the layers of color of the Foxhound which, frequently, are fixed (in the diverse tonalities) by such proprietors of the packs, of way to have, in the greater possible proportion, dogs of uniform tonality.

Raised to the cross. It is not fixed by the official standard.

Head. Wide skull.

Neck. Nonheavy length but.

Previous extremities. Of good bones, that they are not sharpened in any point. Shoulders not excessively fleshy.

Body. Ample flank. Wide back, with ribs affluent curved, inclined backwards.

Later extremities. Muscular and powerful. Corvejones fallen well. Bones of uniform dimensions, that are not sharpened underneath the metatarsos.

Feet. With closed fingers affluent.

The official standard does not establish anything with respect to the eyes, the ears and the layer.

FEEDING. The necessities in Kcal. daily it varies from 1,650 to 1,800 in ration of maintenance. Naturally, in the units in activity, this value is tripled, mainly increasing lipids in the diet and reducing the amount of carbon hydrates that, to equality of weight, have a content under energy more. The provision of mineral-vitaminic complexes must neither forget nor neglect.

DAILY CARES. It is an animal provided with an optimal and exceptional endurance that must also be stimulated not only with a rational feeding but with a continuous training. The capacity to hunt in group (pack) closely is bound to the factors above-mentioned and to the fact that the dogs that compose it, have the same speed

DISEASES. By the fact to live in colectivity, the Foxhound can be affected more easily, with respect to other races, by a viral disease of respiratory type denominated ?cough of the perreras?.

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