Setter gordon

Of the three Setter races, this one, without doubt, less elegant and is less spread. Nevertheless, the Gordon is an excellent dog of sample, that adapts perfectly to any type of land, being particularly effective as much in the dense forest but like in marshes. With a gentile and affectionate special character, it is a dog of safe yield, although not very quick, and one is almost always like a good collector of the downcast prey besides to be equipped with a great resistance the efforts hardest.
This dog took its name from Duke Alexander IV of Gordon, who lived between half on century XVIII and the first quarter on the XIX and which she constituted in a great criador and enthusiastic his. The origins of the black Setter with spots fire are, nevertheless, older, as they demonstrate some drawing to it of end of century XVII that shows Carlos II with their favorite dogs of hunting. In the construction of this race it seems that they have contributed, in addition to the Irish Setter the Blood Hound.

The Setter Gordon is an elegant dog, although of strong and powerful constitution, adapted for galope, with the trunk of length similar to the raised one to the cross. The head is of good length (the ideal is equivalent to the 4/10 of the raised one to the cross), with snout and skull in relation of 1 to 1 and axes skull-facia perfectly parallel them. The neck is lean, without papada, the ears, pendants, of triangular form, flat and beaten well to the cheeks. The eyes have the rainbow of dark brown color.

Height and weight. Raised to the males of 58 to 64 cm.; female of 56 to 62 cm., with a tolerance of 2 cm. in more or less. Weight of 22 to 30 kg.

Head. Great with opened nasal graves good, black Trufa. Straight nasal cane, of length similar to the one of the skull. Fine, adherent lips superior when maxilar, covering the jaw. Recess very marked, but nonabrupt naso-frontal. Skull of sheroidal form, more accentuated in the superior part.

Eyes. Great, with eyelids affluent adhered to the bulb, of dark brown color. Comisuras palpebrales black.

Ears. Pendants, smooth, of triangular form, with end slightly cleared, stuck to the cheeks, of birth at level of the zygomatic arc.

Neck. Papada tidbit, muscular, devoid of. with bent superior profile.

Previous extremities. In normal seriousness seen as much front as of profile. Long shoulders. Arms of developed affluent musculatura, inclined. approximately, 30º on the horizontal. Long forearms like the arms. Carpi and metacarpos on the vertical line of the forearms.

Body. Wide, opened with affluent musculatura developed convex Thorax, fallen chest until beyond the elbows. Abarriladas ribs affluent. Cross elevated on the dorsal line. Inferior line of the trunk, ascending.

Later extremities. In correct seriousness. Muscular, long and wide thighs. Legs a little shorter than the thighs. Corvejones on the same line of the rumps.

Feet. Made oval, with united and bent fingers affluent. Hard plants. Strong nails, curved, of black color.

Tail. Of high birth, heavy robust in the base, it is tapered towards the end, of length similar to the one of the extremities previous to the height of the elbow, with fleco typical.

Coat. Length, of 5 to 6 cm, slightly undulated. Color: shining black with blue reflections and stains red-mahogany: black and fire.

ALMENTACION. The nutritional necessities, like ration of maintenance, for this Setter are included/understood, according to the weight and sex, between the 1,450 and the 1,700 Kcal. Daily. More precise it must be the ration for the units submissive a high physical activity, for the females in gestation and during the lactancia and for the puppies in phase of growth. A vitamin deficiency To causes that the dog is more receptive to certain virosis and a vitamin deficiency C determines, in the units in via improving, a relapse that sometimes can get to be mortal.

DAILY CARES. Before the hunting it is precise to make controls on lees to put in evidence possible parasitic, the vaccinations of routine and an suitable physical training. The cleaning of the layer, done with certain regularity and always around the hunting, must be accompanied by a meticulous ocular and manual inspection mainly the body to exclude the presence from parasites

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