Bracco Italiano Dog

Facts about Bracco Italiano Dog "Scientific name for Bracco Italiano Dog, or domestic canine, is Canis lupus familiaris". Bracco Italiano Dog is a dog breed that is native to Italy. The nickname of this dog is Bracco and it is commonly called by other names, such as the Italian Pointing Dog and the Italian Pointer. In Italy, the Bracco Italiano Dog breed is developed as an adaptable gun dog, which means that the dog is usually employed in finding game. The Bracco Italiano dog has a unique serious facial expression.

Features

The Bracco Italiano dog is an athletic and powerful looking dog that looks like a cross between the Bloodhound and the German Shorthaired Pointer Dog. Male Bracco Italiano Dogs are capable of growing to a maximum height that ranges from 23 inches to 26 inches (58 cm to 67 cm), whereas the female dogs grow to a maximum height between 22 inches and 24 inches (55 cm and 62 cm). Both male and female dogs have an equal body weight that ranges from 55 lbs to 88 lbs (25 kg to 40 kg).

The Bracco Italiano dog has pendulous long ears and upper lips that generate a serious expression on its face. The Bracco Italiano Dog has an almost square shaped body, which means that its height at the shoulders will be more or less the same as its body length. However, it will not be really square because this would make its renowned back, driving push off and front or back extension to be compromised, hence losing much of its influential elegance. Generally, the tail of the Bracco Italiano Dog is docked because of the strong likelihood of wound in rough or solid land while hunting. However, there has been a change of view in Italy, with a few dogs currently working with a full tail.

The coat of the Bracco Italiano dog is short, thick, and shiny. The texture will be quite hard, although rather softer and shorter on the throat, head, ears, feet and legs. Shedding in the Bracco Italiano Dog breeds will take place two times in a year, and a dog glove actually helps in eliminating the dead coat.

Bracco Italiano Dogs sweat glands are between their paw pads.
A Bracco Italiano Dog sees in color and have better low light vision. Bracco Italiano Dogs have three eyelids, a lower lid, an upper eyelid lid and a third lid, that is called a haw or nictitating membrane, this keeps the Bracco Italiano Dogs eye protected and moist. Bracco Italiano Dogs eyes have a special membrane for seeing better at night, called a tapetum lucidum - a dogs reflective layer in the choroid chiefly of nocturnal, causing the eyes to glow when light at night hits the eyes and they consist of some layers of smooth flat cells covered by a section of double deformed crystals.

Temperament

The Bracco Italiano dog breeds are vastly people-devoted dogs and they flourish on human company, having a strong necessity to be nearer to their people. The Bracco Italiano Dog are a chiefly excellent family dog, and they have a strong adore for kids. Bracco Italiano dogs survive well with other pets and dogs, if they trained to accomplish so, it is, finally a hunting Bracco Italiano Dog breed and it should be trained what to pursue and what not to pursue. The Bracco Italiano Dog are very eager to satisfy as long as they have determined that your idea is better than their ideas. Obedience guidance is required for the Bracco Italiano Dog breed, and the extra is asked of them, the better they perform. Harsh warnings do not work well with this dog breed, except the warning is a reasonable one and the harshness have to be used with some dogs occasionally to jog their memory that is really in charge. Even though Bracco Italiano dogs are not aggressive, many dogs of the Bracco Italiano Dog breed will be caring if there is a cause, and some other dogs will growl or bark if there is a good cause.

The lifespan of the Bracco Italiano dog is more than 10 years.

The number one heath problems amongst Bracco Italiano Dogs is obesity, so always make sure your dog doesn't get to fat. Many foot problems that Bracco Italiano Dogs have are just an issue of long toenails.

All dogs are identical in makeup big or small– 42 permanent teeth and 321 bones. Bracco Italiano Puppies have 28 teeth and when they become adult dogs they have 42 teeth. Female Bracco Italiano Dogs are in heat for matting for about 20 days twice a year. Puppies for their first few weeks will sleep ninety percent of the day and their vision is not fully developed until after the first month. Female Bracco Italiano Dogs are pregnant for 60 days before they’re puppies are born

A Bracco Italiano Dog can hear a sound at four times the distance of a human. Sound frequency is measured in Hertz (Hz) Def-Hertz is the measurement of frequency, explicitly it's one cycle per second. The higher the Hertz are, the higher the pitched the sound is. Bracco Italiano Dogs hear best at 45,000 Hz to 65,000 Hz, while humans hear best at around 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.

Only humans and dogs have prostates, But a dog doesn't have an appendix. Bracco Italiano Dogs have two times the amount of ear muscles than people.
Bracco Italiano Dog’s nose prints can be used to identify them, their nose prints are like a humans finger print. A Bracco Italiano Dog smells more than 1,000 times stronger than that of a human. A Bracco Italiano Dog’s nose, secretes a thin layer of mucous that helps it absorb scent, after that they lick their noses and sample the scent through their mouth.

Average body temperature for a Bracco Italiano Dog is between 101 to 102.5 degrees
A Bracco Italiano Dog is an omnivore, (definition-they eat both other animals and plants).
all Dogs are direct descendants of wolves.

Bracco Italiano Dogs pant to keep cool with 10 to 35 breaths per minute with an average of 24 breaths per minute. A large dog breed resting heart beats between 60 to 100 times per minute, and a small dog breed’s heart beats on average between 100 to 140 and they will pant a lot.

A Bracco Italiano Dog’s mouth can apply approximately 150 to 200 pounds of pressure per square inch and an American Pit Bull Terrier, German Shepherd Dog and a rottweiler can have 320 LBS of pressure on avg.