Bulldogs living in apartments
By Gilmar J. S. Barros of CARVING
BULLDOGS KENNEL. (published in the Magazine Geração Animal nº. 07.)
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A subject that has been observing to generate doubts and controversies " The dogs created in apartments ". Recently, in a phone chat, a lady Investigated me about the convenience of BULLDOGS living in apartment, in neighborhood of Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro. I told her that I am an attentive observer of the routines developed by my BULLDOGS. At 8:00 o'clock they go for the sun tan, there staying for approximately 15 minutes, after what come back for the shadow and until the midday they turn to expose voluntarily for more three or four times in intervals from 40 to 50 minutes. (The literatures of the gender when they approach to the subject of the kennel construction, they guide the builders for this is planned with the front gone back to the North cardinal point, not only to avoid the Southwest wind as for the best use of the sun light in benefit of the facilities and of the canine teeth that will inhabit in him. The ultraviolet rays kill most of the bacterias in a continuous exhibition of two hours, it destroys germes that accumulate in the ground, in the corners and interior of the kennels. These same germes survive months in the darkness. The vitamin D synthesized in the skin through the sun light plays important part in the absorption of the calcium and in the way as the calcium is deposited in the bones to give firmness and rigidity. The sun is an important food source and energy for dogs and only recently we began to understand the chemical influence of the sun light working the biological clocks and until determining the ripening of the organisms that composes the canine body.
The solar light influences too much on the growth and development of the body and of the mind, in the operation of the kidneys, in the regulation of the cells of the blood, and in many metabolic activities. The sun energy enter in the skin, affecting the several fabrics in directly and in indirectly way. The light energizes certain cells and certain chemical substances existent in the fabrics that are receptbles to the sun light).
If the dog passes most of the day confined to the interior of a certain atmosphere with reduced solar light penetration, it can develop the rickets that is not only related to the dogs that suffer of low nutrition and the long bones, especially of the paws, they can become fragile and arched. To pass to the square of this problem some breeders supply vitamin synthetic D, besides the calcium believing that the daily walk supplies with success the needs of them canine. Partly, the success of this effort will depend on the schedule chosen for the execution of the walk and of the time of exhibition to the sun light. The absence of a free space in the habitat of the canine can commit the good health of the mascot because nothing substitutes with efficiency the morning sun tan.
In another way, to confine the dog, uninterruptly, in a space exposed to the sun light, instead of beneficial, is harmful because the sun excess will provoke dehydration, burns and damages to the eyes. The cornea can become burned and inflamed and the solar rays, the ultraviolet, that they cross the cornea, they can reach the ocular lenses. That damage is irreversible, slow and painful.
But an apartment with balcony, penthouse, or windows gone back to the North or East, where there is a good incidence of solar rays, offers better ability conditions, health and leisure to the dog, than another one with the front gone back to the south or Southwest, or that middle is inserted to other constructions permanent shadowed. Because in this case the canine will take less advantage of the benefits of the sun light to consolidate your health.
Is good to remind that the dogs have natural instinct that guides them to dose the exact time of permanence accurately in the sun, well as when and how many times will must they be led for these exhibitions. In attention to this, fits us the important care of to patrol in which are the places where our mascot prefers stay in its sun tan, caring for it don't find difficulties nor obstacles to reach your project. As sometimes happens when an apartment, in spite of well positioned with relationship in the sun, it has curtains closed during most of the morning.
To the physical exercises, special attention it should be gone back to the schedules, never allow to the dog to do it in the hottest hours, period that the sun is upright. The best hours is the first ones and the last hours of the morning and of the afternoon, mainly in the hottest areas of the country and mainly in the summer, these taken care they will never be in surplus.
BULLDOG is considered as being the breed canine more compact; For being so compact, the physical exercises as running accompanying a bicycle (for instance) they become prohibitive. The companion of the dog, continually it should evaluate the acting of the dog in the walk or in the hazing and reduce the march when the first exhausting signs appear. BULLDOGS as all the other breeds can be slowly conditioned for the quilometrics walks if followed a process criteriously cautious and of patient progression. The short length of the nose hinders the best use of the oxygen. The physical constitution doesn't tolerate temperatures very discharges, above 38 centigrade degrees, in these cases, maintain the dog in rest under the shadow, avoid to transport it in vans with direct exhibition in the sun, and in cars without conditioned air or little ventilated.
Another rule: never walk after the meals, and when arriving of a walk, to pick up the vessel of water to avoid the canine drinks water before to recompose and to normalize the breath and the temperature of the body. Preferable to offer it water elapsed 30 minutes after the end of the exercise.
Consequences of the practice of Bull-baitings with the English Bulldog Breed
By Gilmar José S. de Barros – breeder.
BULL-BAITINGS – Fights of dogs against bulls practiced among the centuries XVIII and XIX
STRUCTURAL (phenotype)
With the constant selection of the best and more appropriate copies, those more
susceptible ones to be victorious in the dispute, they were chosen and reproduced and
slowly noticing in the structure of the breed the ones that had a wide and strong thorax,
a powerful jaw with inferior progmatism, this way could continue biting the bull without
interruption of the breathing (the nostril was reserved), the wrinkles favored the flowing
of the blood for the lateral of the nose. The wide body would support the impacts of the
falls. The paws were shortening more and more in order to adapting to maintain it low and
closest to the floor to avoid the blows of the horns. BULLDOG is one of the little canine
breeds that are born without tail, but, let us agree, of anything it would serve in the
circumstances of a BULL-BAITINGS. (BULLDOG actually retain the same characteristics).
Summary of English BULLDOG STANDARD. FCI, no. 70 of 26.08.88, published by The Kennel Club.
WEIGHT:
Mature Dog - 55lbs
Mature Bitches - 50lbs
HEAD
The head's circumference should be equal, approximately, to the height of the base of the
neck.
HEIGHT
Although the Standard doesn't contain clear specification, a good copy it should be,
approximately, from 40cm to 50cm.
TEMPERAMENTAL
Ferocity (was consideredthe most ferocious dog of the world), tenacity,
resistance the pain - exist reports that BULLDOGS hited and with part of the vital organs
exposed they came back to the fight. The dog became a machine of biting. The bulldogs
created to combat if was choosen basing on two main characteristics: COURAGE AND FEROCITY.
The chronicles speak about a bet that involved an enormous sum of money. An owner of
BULLBAITING, convinced that your champion, once biting the bull, would keep on biting and
prisoner to the bull besides if they cut its feet one by one. He found who accepted and he
won the bet.
With the official extinction (ordained by law) of BULLBAITINGS the dog was restricted to the delinquency (in ownership of bad elements, in secret bets) associating your image to the crime (with decades of selection for ferocity, he, for anything else would serve, not to be for struggle).
It was removed of this sad picture due to the effort undertaken by the lovers of the breed that for years, they selected the one of better temper in detriment to the of favorable temper to the practice of the unforgettable ones and banished BULL-BAITINGS, what resulted balanced, reliable and safe current BULLDOG for the humans.
CARVING BULLDOGS KENNEL
- In Brazil
Mr. Gilmar Barros ou Mr. José Roberto Ramos
Rua Pindá 25, Posse, Nova Iguaçu, RJ, Brazil
CEP (ZP) 26.022.620
TeleFax: (55-21) 3067-1194
/ 3101-7022 / 9292-9238
CARVING BULLDOGS KENNEL - In U.S.A.
Mrs. Ana Amaral
1800 N. Federal Highway Suite 204 Pompano Beach,
Florida 33062 - U.S.A.
TeleFax: (954) 944 - 0104