Rhodesian ridgeback

This dog, original of Sud Africa is so versatile and brave as to find manifold uses or as dog of greater hunting or as dog of day-care center for the defense and the safekeeping of the property. Its more interesting anatomical detail is, a strip on the back, throughout the spine where the hair this returned in sense in opposition to the rest from the layer and that the indigenous legend attribute zarpazo of lion. Ferocious and decided when it hunts, one is on the contrary calm and affectionate within the house.
Legend to a side, the dogs with the characteristic crest to ?contrapelo? only is in South Africa and the Asian East Sud. The most convincing thesis and than is based on skeletons and other found bony rest in Sud Africa and Rhodesia, establish that also the Asian dogs descend from the Rhodesian. Therefore one is a native race used by the natives to hunt, but mainly to defend the towns of the ferocious animals, specially numerous in those regions. The arrival of the English targets, boers and, I take to this race one more to a more severe selection. This was carried out in second half of century XIX time during which the Rhodesian was also used against the black that do not support the domination of the white racists. In any case, this dog finds its main use against the wild animals. Employee in safaris, does not back down nor before the lion to which, single or in small groups, he does in front, barking, to call the attention of the hunter. Therefore, a dog of safari but also of guard who at night guards kind, warning in the camping of any danger. They were the English who presented it in Europe taking it their country and presenting/displaying it, at the beginning of this century, in the more important canine exhibitions, in which one prevailed by its characteristics of force and balance. Of this form, the English criadores seized of this race that progressively is made more and more frequents so much in Rhodesia as in Sud Africa. At the present time enough it is extended in almost all the European countries, in North America and even in Australia, where it is used, and with good results, for day-care center and defense, demonstrating an obedience to the really exceptional master, mainly if their origins consider that, in a certain sense, can be considered wild.

The Rhodesian Ridgeback is a dog of good bones and fort constitution, muscular and agile whose ideal weight is of approximately 34 kg for the males and around 30 kg for the females. The head is extended, with the hanging ears, the deep and robust snout and a developed affluent set of teeth and hard. The dark and shining eyes have a fierce and loyal expression. The extremities are muscular and the powerful trunk, with the very solid superior line. The step denotes agility and power. The tense skin either, puts of relief the underlying musculatura and is covered by short, hard and shining hair, or is adhered in all the parts of the body. Nevertheless, which characterizes more to the anatomy of this dog is the strip to contrapelo on the spine, from which its own name comes (in effect, Ridgeback means in English ?back with furrow?). The admitted color is the yellow in its diverse tonalities, sometimes with a little target on the chest but that never extends neither to the belly nor to the extremities.

Height and weight. Raised to the cross male of 63 to 68 cm., females of 61 to 66 cm. desirable Weight: males: 34 kg, females 29 kg.

Head. Of good length. Brown black Trufa or. Long, deep and robust snout. Together and perfectly strong jaws. Stop marked enough. Flat, relatively wide skull between the ears and without you fold when the dog is in rest.

Eyes. Moderately distanced, round and to each other shining, of color that harmonizes with the one of the layer.

Ears. Of relatively high birth, of medium size, a little wide in the base, sharpening itself towards the end that is cleared. The dog takes pendants to them.

Neck. Relatively hard, without papada.

Previous extremities. In correct seriousness, forts and provided with good bones. Muscular oblique shoulders. Stuck elbows affluent to the body.

Body. Thorax not very wide but deep. Ribs moderately cleared but not abarriladas. Vigorous back and strong, muscular kidneys and slightly bent.

Later extremities. With delineated and delimited muscles affluent. Corvejones fallen well.

Feet. Compact, with bent fingers and round, resistant and elastic pads plantar. Hairs between the fingers, and the sole that protect the feet.

Tail. Robust in the base it is sharpened gradually towards the end. Of neither too high nor too low birth, it is taken with a small curve upwards but never coiled.

Coat. Short and dense, smooth and shining. Color; of the clear wheat to the leonado one, sometimes with a little target on the chest and in the fingers.

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities in this robust dog are of 1,850 Kcal. daily for the males and of 1,650 for the females. A suitable and kind provision of mineral-vitaminic complexes is particularly necessary during the first months of life and in the period of the corporal development. Like all the dogs of great size, also the Rhodesian Ridgeback can indeed suffer of raquitismo, disease caused by a vitamin deficiency and mineral salts. It can be solved with a diet that contains precise amounts of vitamin D and vitamin To in addition to a balanced contribution of calcium and phosphorus. At the present time, between the causes of the appearance of infectious and parasitic diseases in the puppies, an insufficient feeding of the mother is during the gestation and the lactancia. Therefore, it is precise to put much attention in the form to feed the dog, as much qualitative as quantitatively, during the ?critical periods?.

DAILY CARES. The short hair and lasts of this dog, does not require special cares.

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