Irish Setter

With its flecos lengths of shining hair red-mahogany, the Irish Setter, thus called by its land of origin, is unquestionably the most elegant Setter. Like his relatives English and Gordon, it is equipped with an excellent sense of smell and great speed but it has a more ardent and pendenciero character than the other two, until the point of which a training longer is necessary than the one of the other dogs before using it of rational way in the hunting, where excels particularly, in the one of all the aquatic birds.

From relatively remote times, in Ireland they existed and still color spots exist Setter with the white layer yextensas red-mahogany, of which it is said, among other things, that are the Setter oldest. This dog is selected little by little, eliminating the target of the layer until making it disappear completely, except for a small star in the chest. Quickly, this dog with a beautiful librea, red-mahogany, began to please receive many that looked for more to it by their beautiful one and elegant aspect that by its dowries venatorias. This fact took to an excessive ennoblecimiento of its natural qualities that in a time were elevated, causing that diminished the interest of the hunters by this variety.

Its aspect is the one of an elegant dog, distinguished, with the gathered trunk (its length is similar to the raised one to the cross), and with the long and lean head. One moves with galope quick that knows to even maintain during all the day. It seems a blaze on the meadows.

Height and weight. Males, of 56 to 64 cm.; females, of 54 to 62 cm. Weight: of 20 to 30 kg.

Head. It releases, the 4/10 of the raised one to the cross. Snout and skull of equal length. Black Trufa with well opened great nasal graves and. Straight nasal cane. Fine lips, beaten well to the jaws. Recess naso-frontal little developed. Skull of made oval form. Occipital apophysis noticeable good.

Eyes. Great, or open, On guard semilateral, of brown color or it countersinks.

Ears. Pendants, of approximately triangular form, birth to the height of the zygomatic arc. External face of the pavilion covered with silky hair, with a length of up to 2/3 of the ear.

Neck. Of equal length to the one of the head, bent, heavy, devoid of it is not papada.

Previous extremities. In normal seriousness, profile views or front. Long, oblique shoulders. Arms and forearms of equal length.

Body. Straight dorsal line, bent back-lumbar line. The straight in the region of breastbone, soon ascending inferior profile. Close chest. Thorax fallen in 2 or 3 cm. beyond the elbows. Abarriladas ribs affluent, oblique. Cross very elevated on the dorsal line. Short, muscular kidneys.

Later extremities. In normal seriousness, views as much of profile as of back. Muscular, Slightly oblique thighs affluent. Legs a little shorter than the thighs. Metatarsos robust and lean.

Feet. Of made oval form, but the later ones less made oval than the previous ones. Small, lean, with united and bent fingers. Black plants and nails.

Tail. Of low birth, heavier in the base. tapering itself towards the end.

Hair. Length, of 5 to 6 cm., silky texture, with abundant flecos in the later edges of the extremities, in the throat, the region of the breastbone and the tail. Color: unicolor red-mahogany.

> THE FEEDING. The nutritional necessities for this dog vary from the 1,450 to 1,680 Kcal. daily, like ration of maintenance. To four weeks of life, the daily caloric necessities are of 250 calories by kilo of alive weight, becoming 200 to the tenth week of life, 140 to fourteenth, 100 calories to sixteenth and in the adult unit in rest, in 55,3 calories, always by kilo of alive weight per day. For the unit used for the hunting, the nutritional contribution in kilocalorías daily and exigencies are tripled with respect to the ration of maintenance. The young animal is able to use during a relatively long time hiperlipídicas diets (that is to say, with many fats), whereas the adult, and in conditions of inactivity, if it is put under he himself excess of lipids incurs the obesity. The diet must be complete in mineral vitamins and salts by the paper that fulfill to maintain so much to the puppy as to the adult unit in a perfect state of health.

DAILY CARES. The cares are analogous to the indicated ones for the English Setter and the Gordon.

DISEASES. A hereditary disease is described in the Irish Setter that affects the puppies and that consist of an incapacity in putting itself standing up, it pretends blindness and tremors.

 

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