Lancashire Heeler

Facts about Lancashire Heeler Dog, "Scientific name for Lancashire Heeler Dog, or domestic canine, is Canis lupus familiaris". Lancashire Heeler is a miniature dog breed that is native to England. The Lancashire Heeler Dog breed was developed to be used as a drover of cattle, which means that the dog was used to move livestock over great distances by walking them on their leadership. It is also used as a working dog to a flock of cattle. Once the Lancashire Heeler Dog breed was also used to hunt rabbits and rats at home, but currently, it is an admired companion dog breed in its native country.
The Lancashire Heeler Dog looks like Corgi dogs, and can be clever, naughty, or stubborn. The Lancashire Heeler Dogs can contend in dog alertness tests, compliance, Rally conformity, fly ball, showmanship, and herding events. Herding characters and trainability can be considered at noncompetitive herding trials. The Lancashire Heeler Dogs that exhibit the basic herding characters can be trained to contend in herding tests.

History

Though the exact details of the origin of the Lancashire Heeler dog breed are not known, it is acknowledged as a type of small type of herding dog that is native to Wales, the Welsh corgi dog, which was used to take livestock to the northwestern part of England from Wales. In the Ormskirk region, a market city in West Lancashire in England, a kind of tan and black terrier, known as the Manchester Terrier, was brought in, which resulted in what is currently recognized as the Lancashire Heeler dog. The Lancashire Heeler Dog has been recognized as a general purpose ranch dog in its native county for more than one hundred and fifty years, and it was used for ratting and herding cattle.

Gwen Mackintosh, a dog enthusiast, started to breed the Lancashire Heeler dogs during the early 1960s. In cooperation with other dog fanatics, the Lancashire Heeler Club was created during 1978, with the club deciding the standard and registering the dog breeds. Gwen Mackintosh continued to serve as the president of the club pending her death during 1992. Lancashire Heeler Dogs sweat glands are between their paw pads.
An Lancashire Heeler Dog sees in color and have better low light vision. Lancashire Heeler 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 Lancashire Heeler Dogs eye protected and moist. 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

The Lancashire Heeler dog breed was recognized as a susceptible native breed during 2006, meaning the yearly registration numbers are less than 300 for the Lancashire Heeler Dog breed. Then, 173 Lancashire Heeler dogs were registered during 2006 in the United Kingdom, and this had further decreased to 146 during 2007.

Features

The Lancashire Heeler dog breeds are somewhat longer than their height at withers, with the height, ranging from 10 inches to 12 inches (25 cm to 30 cm), with the maximum body weight between 13 lbs and 18 lbs (5.9 kg and 8.2 kg). The coat of the Lancashire Heeler Dog breed is harsh and soft with an undercoat that maintains the dog dry during all weathers. The dog has a slight mane about the neck during the winter season and the color of the dog is generally black and tan.

Temperament

The Lancashire Heeler dog is a clever breed of dog that learns swiftly, but it has its own mind and it has to be gently trained, but with firm stability and constructive reinforcement. With people and other pets, the Lancashire Heeler Dogs are usually friendly, but they can be intelligent toward other dogs. They are required to be socialized with people and other dog breeds at their early age. The Lancashire Heeler Dog breed is ideally suitable for families with school-going kids and it takes pleasure in having a yard where he can freely run.

A Lancashire Heeler Dogs 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. Lancashire Heeler 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 Lancashire Heeler Dogs have prostates, But a dog doesn't have an appendix. Lancashire Heeler Dogs have two times the amount of ear muscles than people.

The average lifespan of the Lancashire Heeler dog ranges from 12 years to 15 years.

A Lancashire Heeler 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.

All Lancashire Heeler Dogs are identical in makeup big or small– 42 permanent teeth and 321 bones. Lancashire Heeler Puppies have 28 teeth and when they become adult dogs they have 42 teeth. Female Lancashire Heeler 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 dogs are pregnant for 60 days before they’re puppies are born

Lancashire Heeler Dog’s nose prints can be used to identify them, their nose prints are like a humans finger print. A Lancashire Heeler Dog smells more than 1,000 times stronger than that of a human. A Lancashire Heeler 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 Lancashire Heeler Dog is between 101 to 102.5 degrees
A Lancashire Heeler Dog is an omnivore, (definition-they eat both other animals and plants).
all Dogs are direct descendants of wolves.

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

Lancashire Heeler 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 pant a lot.