the dog and the sport

The sport of the dog, or with the dog, is perhaps the modern activity but and heals of all the utilities that the dog can offer to us; company, diversion, physical exercise, technical and competitive spirit are the main ingredients, as much for the dog as for the owner.

The sport of the dog has its origin in Germany, the cradle of cinofilia world-wide. To let watch at the dog, single like a work tool, next to the height of the canine aficción, caused that new routes arose as of century XX so that as much the dog as the owner enjoyed the physical exercise and the abilities, even surpassing the difficulties.

The sport approaches are several that we can give our dog. The germanic derivatives of the military institution, do that the dogs adapt to very strict regulations in their discipline, and divided in three sections: sign, obedience and defense. These tests estan as well divided in three levels different from difficulty. For these regulations the following canine races are admitted: German shepherd, Belgian shepherd, dobermann, to rottweiler, to schnauzer giant, to boxer, hovawart and to bouvier of Flandes.

These regulations are distributed and practiced in the denominated work groups, that work like clubs social, where the partner trains their own dog under the direction of training and the figurante or the man of attack. In order to belong to these groups or clubs, one pays to a matriculation and a monthly payment.

When the dog reaches the suitable level can accede to the sport competitions, where dog and guide will have to be perfectly compenetrados. In order to obtain this, we will consider three factors: the quality of the character of the dog, the sensitivity and degree of compression of the owner, and the technique used for its training.

In the tracking discipline the dog must have a good sense of smell, a fort impulse to the sign, and a good motivation by the work. Regulation will put under which it demands to adjust to him to the layout, that a person has made with certain time of advance, and will locate the objects by him deposited. To raise the snout or to ventear, to lose themselves, to skip some object without marking it, etc.son factors that will penalize on the final score.

The obedience discipline is but the technical one. The dog will make exercises of pursuit with and without strap, orders of seated, fallen down, called, brought of objects, etc. The disobedience, the lack of attention or the imperfection of the exercises will penalize the sport activity.

In the defense discipline, it is where but the character of the dog can clearly be valued. The search of the malechor, control and orders for attack to stop the aggression, are the base of this discipline.

But the remarkable thing of these regulations is that the attitude of the dog is merely sport, reason why do not have to be aggressive in its daily life. This demonstrated that the mental health of these dogs is superior to the one on which exercises or training live without, or those that live in gardens, without social contact not even on the part of the family.

Studies have become scientific that they corroborate that if to make sport is healthy, to do it with the dog it is it still more.

From the Anglo-Saxon approach another sport activity in height is derived very, that does not demand a race makes specific and that is from smaller complication than the previous one, it is the Agility call or test of agility.

 

Source: Dr Alexander Garci'a
Tacuarí veterinary medicine

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