Pequinés

The salary lived during centuries in the cut of the Chinese emperors, has turned it one of the most aristocratic dogs, being its character a confirmation of it. Affectionate and faithful with the proprietor, the Pequinés, nevertheless, is blinded, cold, expansive and little even wild with the strangers, showing its arrogance even in front of other animals. It lives perfectly in the house although the excessive heat and the dryness, during the winter period, condition of determining way the development of their coat.
Although the name of Pequinés occurred him at the end of the Renaissance, this dog is bred in China from very remote times. Its race was originated in the crossover of an ancient dog, the Pale, very wanted by the old Chinese dynasties, with the tibetano Lhassa. During many centuries, the Pequinés was constituted in the exclusive dog of the Chinese emperors, and very severe pains were applied, that included the one of death, to that robbed or killed a Pequinés. Also its export severely was prohibited until half-full of the last century. Any doubt that the greatest criador of Pequineses was emperor Tao Kuan, in first half of century XIX does not exist. In Europe it was introduced by the English officials who participated in the war of the opium (1840 - 1842). Immediately after the first Pequineses appeared in the English exhibitions, its diffusion was fast in all the continents.

The constitution and the expression of the Pequinés always must denote dignity and nobility. It will never have to seem clumsy and vulgar.

Height and weight. The raised one to the cross is not fixed by the standard. Weight, of 2 to 8 kg

Head. It makes solid, absolutely flat of profile. Trufa very short black with well developed the great nasal graves and. Wide, rough snout, with wide and solid inferior jaw. Deep Stop. Wide and flat skull between the ears, does not have vaulted form.

Eyes. Great, crystalline, of dark color, prominent, but not of excessive way.

Ears. In form of heart, high birth, at taken level of the skull and stuck at the top. Provided with very long flecos. The length of the pavilion does not surpass the snout.

Neck. Relatively short thickness.

Previous extremities. Short, heavy, with heavy and bent, well solid bones in shoulders.

Body. Short, with wide thorax and abarriladas ribs affluent, narrower later. Straight dorsal line. Low breastbone between the forearms.

Later extremities. Lighter than previous, but the solid ones and in correct seriousness. Corvejones robust.

Feet. Great and flat, nonround. Previous feet slightly left.

Tail. Of rigid high and taken birth, slightly curved on the back, adorned with abundant flecos.

Coat. Length and rectum, with abundant melena that extends behind shoulders forming like a capita around the neck; relatively ordinary outer hair and dense subhair. Abundant flecos in the ears, the extremities and in the tail. Color: they are all admitted, uniform or to spots, except for the albino and the chestnut tree-reddish one,

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities calculated as ration of maintenance varies according to the weight. For the slightest units 230 - 320 are sufficient Kcal daily, for the units of medium size, 390 to 500; whereas for the males, whose weight arrives at the 8 kg, the contribution in Kcal daily is next to 650.

DAILY CARES. It is a resistant dog to the diseases, but this one does not constitute a reason so that the norms of nutritional and environmental hygiene neglect, vaccinations and controls to establish the existence of parasitic diseases. The cleaning of the layer and its care are made with a comb and a brush of smooth bristle.

DISEASES. The Pequinés is constitutionally exoftálmico, that is to say, it has ocular bulbs very fallen, thus can be object with greater facility, of injuries

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