The English bulldog breed is one of the most popular around the world. It is unmistakable
and its image is traditionally linked to of your country, the United Kingdom, to the point
that has even come to be considered a national symbol.
HISTORY: The Bulldog was first classified as such in 1630 for his previous mention
of a similar type referred to a bandog, term currently used for dogs
of fight. Originally used for fight with bulls, the Bulldog fought his way
and from 1835 it began to develop in a shorter face version and more
Chubby to what we know today. Entered the exhibition tracks in 1860
and in the following years he showed a great personality change A dog deliciously
ugly with pugilist expression that shows Affection, of an affective nature towards the family
and friends. One of the most autochthonous races old known as the National Dog of
Britain and associated with everyone with British determinations and the legendary
John Bull.
GENERAL ASPECT: It is a short-haired dog, something heavy, rather low in height, width,
powerful and compact. Rather large head in proportion to its size, but none
part of your body must have an excessive size in relation to the others, thus breaking the
general symmetry, making the misshapen dog look or interfering with their ability to move.
Relatively short face, broad snout, blunt and tilted slightly upwards though
not too excessive. Dogs showing problems Respiratory diseases are highly undesirable. Body
something short, of good structure.
Strong, well-muscled and robust members without tendency to obesity. High back and
strong. Females not as developed as the males.
BEHAVIOR and TEMPERAMENT: Must give the impression of determination, strength and activity.
Alert, brave, loyal, dependent, courageous, fierce in appearance, but possessor of a
Affective nature HEAD: Side view, the head looks very
high and moderately short from back to the tip of the nose. Flat front with skin
on and around the head, slightly loose and subtly wrinkled without excesses
prominent or protruding from the face. The face, from the cheek bones to
the nose, relatively short, with the skin which can be slightly wrinkled. Distance
from the inner angle of the eye (or the center of the naso-frontal depression between the eyes)
to the tip of the nose, you should not be less than the distance from the tip of
the nose on the edge of the lower lip.
CRANIAL REGION: Skull: Skull relatively large in circumference.
Seen from the front it looks high from the angle from the lower jaw to the top
of the skull, also wide and square. Since the stop, a groove extends halfway
of the skull, being able to follow its stroke until he
vertex.
Naso-frontal depression (Stop): Defined. FACIAL REGION: Front view, various
properties of the face, they must be equally balanced towards both sides of a line
imaginary central Nose: Nose and large nostrils, wide and black,
under no circumstances liver color, red or brown Large wide nostrils
and open, with a well-defined line, vertical and straight between.
Snout: Snout short, wide, upturned, deep from the angle of the eye to the corner
of the lips. The wrinkle on the nose, if present,
complete or broken, should never adversely affect or hide the eyes or nose.
Narrow narrow nostrils and heavy wrinkles on nose are unacceptable and should be penalized
severely. Lips: Thick, broad, and deep bellows,
covering the sides of the lower jaw, but joining the
lower lip in the front. Teeth not visible
Jaws and teeth: Wide jaws, strong, square, lower jaw
projecting slightly forward of the
superior with a moderate inclination toward above. Wide and square jaws with
six small front teeth between canines, in a row even. The canines well
separated from each other, large and strong teeth that should not be seen when the mouth is
closed. When facing the jaw bottom is exactly below the top
and parallel to it.
Cheeks: Cheeks well rounded and extending laterally beyond the eyes.
Eyes: Seen from the front, located low in the skull, well separated from the ears.
The eyes and the naso-frontal depression are in the same straight line, at right angles
with the frontal furrow. Well separated, however the external angles within the line
outside of the cheeks. Round, size Moderate, neither sunken nor prominent, colored
very dark, almost black, not showing the white when they look directly in front Free
of obvious eye problems.
Ears: High insertion, meaning that the front edge of each ear (front view)
touch the edge of the skull at your margin superior, so that they are as
separated from each other, the highest and separated of the eyes as possible. Small and
thin "Ears in the shape of a rose" is correct,
that is to say that internal wrinkles fall towards behind, the upper edge, inner front,
curving outwards and backwards, showing part of the interior
of the atrial channel.
NECK: Moderately long, very thick, deep and strong. Well arched at the top,
with some loose, thick skin and wrinkled around the throat forming
a slight dewlap on each side. BODY:
Upper line: Slightly falls towards the back behind the tip of the scapulae (this
is the lowest part) from where the thorn goes up to the spine (point higher than the
cross) curving again more suddenly towards the tail, forming a slight arch
distinctive feature of the race.
Back: Short, strong, wide back to the height of the scapulae.
Chest: Chest wide, prominent and deep. Body with well-defined ribs towards
behind. Rounded and deep thorax. All right descended between the front legs. Ribs
not being flat on the sides, well rounded Lower line and belly: Abdomen retracted
and not hanging.
COLA: Low insertion, coming out rather right and then turning down.
Rounded, smooth and devoid of fringe or from
hard hair. Of moderate length, rather short that long, thick at the base, tuning
quickly towards a fine point. You must take it down (without having an obvious curve
up on the tip) and never carried above the level of the top line. Absence
of tail, inverted or very tight tails they are undesirable
EXTREMITIES PREVIOUS MEMBERS:
General Appearance: Short front legs in proportion to the backs, but not so
short so that the back seems long or as to hinder the activity of the dog.
Shoulders: Wide shoulders with sloping scapulae and deep, very powerful and muscled giving
the appearance of being glued to body.
Elbows: Elbows low and well away from the ribs.
Arm: Very strong and strong front legs, well developed, inserted well apart,
thick, muscular and straight, the bones of the legs are big and straight, not warped
or curved. Metacarpals: Short, straight and strong metacarpals.
Previous feet: Straight and turned very slightly out, medium and moderately sized
rounded Compact and thick fingers, well separated
up, making the knuckles prominent and tall.
SUBSEQUENT MEMBERS: General Appearance: Large and muscular legs,
in proportion slightly longer than the front. Long legs and
Muscled from the back to the hock. Knees: Knees turned very slightly towards
outside the body. Metatarsus: slightly inclined metatarsals
and well descended. Posterior feet: Round and compact. Fingers
compact and thick, well separated above, making the knuckles
prominent and tall MOVEMENT: Walking with short and quick steps
on the tips of the fingers, the back feet do not get up high, looking
that rub the floor, running with one or the other shoulder relatively advancing. The solidity
of movement is of the utmost importance. MANTLE:
Hair: Fine texture, short, glued and smooth (Hard only because of the short and stuck, not wire)
Color: Solid or smudged, (ie a single color with snout or black mask). Unicolors
(They must be bright and pure from their type) as brindle, red in their various
tones, berries, leonados etc., whites and matches (ie the combination of white with either
of the colors mentioned above) Color flesh, black and black and fire are highly
undesirable.
SIZE AND WEIGHT The race standard does not indicate a size
default, but the bulldog usually has a height at the cross close to 40 centimeters.
WEIGHT. Males: 25 kgs, Females: 23 kgs.
This animal is very strong and can be healthy for a long time, however, his race to
just as all are exposed to suffer a series of conditions that can come
to take their lives. For this reason it is that you must have a series of care and for
knowledge assumption when speaking about the English bulldog breed.
This breed is exposed to suffer a series of changes and although it can get to adapt
to the heat, we must say that it can face a series of heart problems. For this
same is that the health of an English bulldog, it is something that must be taken very seriously for
not have any kind of complications. It should be noted that within these changes
Many dogs have been exposed to suffer this problem and end up dying. As
it should be noted that they tend to suffer series of digestive difficulties and with this
you can realize that your dog will need Take a healthy diet so you can
have a better quality of life and of course have a long life. Although in the
currently a series has been controlled of suffering, we will have to say that
within these problems many are of origin congenital and for this very reason is that you will have
that pay close attention to the way d life let your dog carry.
Something to point out is that it will be necessary that our dog has a physical activity
in a constant way so that this is reduced the risks or cardiac ailments. A
point to try is when to talk about the aesthetic care of the English bulldog
where you will have to indicate that when a dog like this, is at home tends
to pull a lot of hair and this is why you will need of a lot of attention with respect to their care
physical Your extremities are something that also we can point out about the care of this
animal and is that although they look strong, this is not entirely true and with this there will be no
any kind of problems so that later from this we pay attention to this dog.
LIFE EXPECTANCY. From 8 to 11 years old.
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