Maltés

Delicious and small dog of company, the Maltés difference of its other companions of group by its balanced and calm character, that never is put in evidence with manifestations of ?hysteria?. Encariña very many with its master, with which it likes to play and to amuse themselves, demonstrating this way a really exceptional intelligence, rapidity and a vivacity. These qualities have done that, during centuries, outside one of the spread dogs of company more.
In order to demonstrate the antiquity of this race, we have a fragment written by Estrabón, historian and Greek geographer, who lived in century I before Christ, where talks about ?canis Maliei? that already some centuries before had been constituted in the favorite of the ladies of Athens.
Therefore, the Maltés is one of the older dogs of company, and is obvious, therefore, that with the coming of the Roman empire it was also successful between the families of the nobility. Therefore, their Italian origins cannot be put in doubt. Numerous they are the iconográficos testimonies of many teachers of different times that take care of this likeable animal that, with happening of the centuries, spread by all piases European, arriving to the maximum from their notoriety during the Renaissance.

Maltés is a dog of small size, elegant and with a special constitution to allow a displacement him that to trote is characterized by a fast sequence of movements of the extremities until the point that seems that instead of walking it rolled.

Height and weight. Raised to the cross: males, of 21 to 25 cm.; females, of 20 to 23 cm. Weight, 3 to 4 kg.

Head. It has a length equivalent to the 6/11 of the raised one to the cross. Snout of equal length to the 4/11 of the length overall of the head. Voluminous and black Trufa. Rectilinear nasal cane. Lips little developed and with nonvisible the labiales comisuras. Light jaws apparently and normally developed. Skull of ovoidal, slightly flat form.

Eyes. Of a little greater size of the normal thing, of intense ocher color. Black palpebrales edges.

Ears. So that they tend to the triangle, flat, of birth very over the zygomatic arc, falls to the sides of the head.

Neck. Of length equivalent in the middle of the raised one to the cross, without papada.

Previous extremities. Shoulders inclined of 60º to 65º on the horizontal. Arms together with the trunk in its two superior thirds. Lean, huesudos forearms, with few muscles. Carpi and metacarpos on the vertical of the previous ones.

Body. Trunk, 8 cm. longer than the raised one to the cross. Ample flanks, that lower beyond the height of the elbows. Cross slightly elevated on the line of the back, whose profile is rectilinear. Perfectly united kidneys with the line of the back. Inclined Grupa approximately a 10 percent on the horizontal.

Slightly ascending belly towards flanks.

Later extremities. Thighs covered with solid muscles. Strong legs of bones, with a length somewhat superior to the one of the thighs. End of corvejón on the line of the rumps. Metatarsos in perfect seriousness.

Feet. Round, with united and bent fingers. Black nails and plantar pads.

Tail. Of birth on the line of grupa, very heavy in the fine base and in the end.

Coat. Dense, shining, with an average length of 22 cm. Color: pure target or pale ivory, sometimes with orange-pale tonality.

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities for the inactive units are included/understood between the 315 and the 390 Kcal. daily like ration of maintenance.

DAILY CARES. The care of the layer requires the daily use of a smooth brush and a comb that in sequence maintain the abundant and bright hair. All the instruments for the adjustment of the hair, that become vehicle of infections and contagios, must periodically be washed in a solution disinfectant and insecticide. Not to forget corresponding vaccines.

DISEASES. Also in the Maltés, like in other dogs of white hair. a variation of pink-brown color around the eyes and in the regions of the perineo and the armpits is accentuated with the age. A possible medical examination will establish if that must to conjuntivitis, eczema, etc., or if it only is an aesthetic problem.

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