THE COLLIE DOG

Collie dog makes an excellent hunting dog, and can learn to do the work for bearing the index, as well as water from the dog and retriever. He can be trained to perform the tasks of other races. An intelligent fishing, excellent presence of the nose, is a good insect killer, and most faithful watch, guard, and companion.

Little is known with certainty the origin of the Collie, but the crafting and appearance suggests the existence of a relationship with the wild dogs. Buffon was of the opinion that it was a real dog of nature, and securities, and the model for all types of dogs. He said Sheepdog superior in instinct and intelligence to all other breeds, with a character that has a relatively small share of education, he is the only animal born perfectly trained for the service of man.

Offers of this type of dog is always at the top of its class. The more tractable, and is certainly the most active. The second of this type are in favor of a smooth-coated black, so the dog is helpful for hard, are well adapted to work tray and the fleet is usually the same foot. It is not too sweet in mood as black and white, and is slow to make friends. There is not a more graceful and physically beautiful dog to be seen than the show Collie current period. Produced from the old type of work, which is now practically a distinct breed.

The skull should be flat, relatively broad between the ears, and gradually tapering towards the eyes. There should only be a slight reduction in downtime. Showing skull necessarily depends on the length of the combination of skull and muzzle. And it must be seen in connection with the whole size of the dog. It should not be full or prominent cheek.

It should be the length of the barrel of a just, tapering to the nose, and must not show weakness or be flimsy or lippy. No matter the color of the dog may be, it must be black nose. Teeth should be a good size, and sound level. Very little variation is allowed. Jaws cut clean and strong. The eyes are a very important function and the expression of the dog. Must be of medium size, indirectly, to a degree, almond-shaped, brown color, except in the case of merles, when the eye was frequently (one or both) blue and white or China. Full expression of intelligence, with a quick look at the alarm when he listens. It must be small, medium and large Qaeda in the ears, and placed not too close together, but on top of the skull, and not on the side of the head. When in comfort, shall normally be conducted with the back, but when brought to the alarm onwards and semi-erect, with tips slightly stuck in the situation of listening.

The neck muscles must be strong and fair length, curvature to some extent. Must be a strong body, with well sprung ribs, chest deep, broad somewhat behind the shoulders, which should be sloped, loins very powerful. The dog must run at the front. Must be fore legs straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone. Beefy forearm, to some extent, and the pastern showing flexibility without weakness. Must be hind leg muscles of the thighs, clean and Trey below hocks, stifles with the intent as well. It should be oval feet, soles well padded, toes arched and close together.

General character is an active dog Petite, deep chest showing lung power and strength of the neck, his sloping shoulders and well bent hocks refers to the speed, and expression of higher intelligence. It should be just the length of the leg, giving him more than a juicy look bumpy. In a few words, and Collie should show endurance, activity, and intelligence, with free and real work. In dogs high should be 22 ins. For 24 ins. In the shoulders, bitches 20 ins. For 22 ins. Weight for dogs is 45-65 pounds, bitches 40-55 lbs. Smooth collie only differs from the rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense and very smooth.

General history of the dogs

There is no contradiction in the idea that in the earliest period of human habitation this world is a friend and companion of a nice original representative of our modern dog, and that in return for his help him of wild animals in shelter and his sheep and goats at the Guarding, he gave it a portion of his food, a corner in his home, and it grew to trust and care for it. Probably the animal was originally little other than an unusually gentle jackal or a sick wolf driven by his companions from the wild marauding pack to seek refuge in the foreign country. One can well imagine that the possibility of partnership in the circumstance of some helplessly whelps starting from the early hunters home brought brought up and reared by women and children. Dogs introduced into the house as toys for children would grow to look at themselves, and the members of the family should be considered,

In almost all parts of the world are traces of a local dog family, the only exception is the West Indies, Madagascar, the Eastern Isles in the Malay Archipelago, New Zealand, and the Polynesian Islands where there is no sign that every dog ​​is wolf or fox Has existed as a real original animal. In the ancient oriental countries, and as a rule among the early Mongols, the dog remained wild and neglected for centuries, in packs prowling, haggard, and wolf-like, as it passes through the streets and under the walls of every eastern city. There was no attempt to elicit it into human society or to improve it in docility. Only when we examine the records of the higher cultures of Assyria and Egypt that we discover all different varieties of dog shape.

The dog was not greatly valued in Palestine and both in the Old and New Testament it is often with derision and contempt as a "impure animals." The well-known reference to the Shepherd in the Book of Job, "But now they are younger, than I am in mocking, whose forefathers I had scorned to put with the dogs of my flock" is not without a touch of contempt, and it Is important that the only acknowledged companion of man to the dog biblical allusion in the apocryphal book is Tobit (v. 16), "so they went both, and the dog of the young man with them."

The great variety of different dog breeds and the great differences in their size, points and general appearance are facts that make it hard to believe that they might have had a common ancestor. One thinks of the difference between the mastiff and the Japanese Spaniel, the Deerhound, and the fashionable Pomeranians, St. Bernhard and the Miniature Black and Tan Terrier, and becomes perplexed by the possibility that they had descended from a common ancestor. But the difference is no greater than that between the Shire horse and Shetlandpony, the Shorthorn and the Kerry cattle or the Patagonian and the Pygmy; And all dog breeders know how easy it is to produce a variety in type and size from addiction choices.

To truly understand this question, it is necessary to first consider the identity of the structure in the wolf and the dog. This identity of the structure can best be examined in a comparison of the bone system, or skeletons, of the two animals so close together that would not easily recognize their implementation.
The spine of the dog consists of seven vertebrae in the neck, thirteen in the back, seven in the loins, three sacral vertebrae, and 20-22 in the tail. Both the dog and the wolf have thirteen pairs of ribs, nine true and four false. Everyone has forty-two teeth. Both five and four in front of the behind-toes, while outward the common wolf has so much to look at the appearance of a large, bare-bones dog that will be a popular description of one will serve another.

Also, their different habits. The natural voice of the wolf is a loud howl, but when she is confined with dogs he learns to bark. Although he is meat fress, he will also eat vegetables and sickly when he will nibble grass. In the hunt, a pack of wolves divide into parties, in the footsteps of the quarry, the other tries to intercept his retreat, exercise a considerable amount of strategy, a step that is exhibited by many of our sports dogs and terriers when hunting in teams .

Another important point of similarity between Canis lupus and Canis familiaris lies in the fact that the time of pregnancy in both species is 63 days. There are three to nine puppies in a litter of wolves, and these are blind for 21 days. They are suckled for two months, but at the end of this time they can eat for them by their mother or their father to eat half-digested meat.

The native dogs of all regions are approximately narrow in size, color, shape and habit to the native wolf of these regions. From this most important circumstance there are far too many instances to be allowed as a mere coincidence. Sir John Richardson, wrote in 1829, found that "equality between the North American wolves and the domestic dog of the Indians is so great that the size and strength of the wolf seems to be the only difference.

It was suggested that an indisputable argument against the lupine relationship of the dog is that all the dogs bark, while all the wild canids just howl express their feelings. But the difficulty here is not as great as it seems, for we know that Jackals, Wildhounds and Wolfspups raised by bitches easily acquire the habit. On the other hand, dogs free running forgotten how to bark, while there are some who have not yet learned to express themselves.

The presence or absence of the habit of barking can not be considered an argument in the question of the origin of the dog to decide. This stumbling block disappears so we are able to leave with Darwin to some whose final hypothesis was that "it is very likely that the dogs of the world have descended from two good species of wolf (C. lupus and C. latrans) From two or three other doubtful species of wolves, the European, Indian, and North African forms derived from at least one or two South American dog species from different breeds or species of jackals, and perhaps one or more extinct species "; And that the blood of them, in some cases intermixed, flows in the veins of our petrasses.