Liten dalmatiner
Rasen har fått navn etter Dalmatia på adriaterhavskysten, men den stammer fra India, og kom til Europa med sigøynerne på tallet. I århundrer var den en dyktig arbeidshund, men i dag brukes dalmatineren kun som selskapshund. Av gemytt er den vennlig og sporty. I vår tid er dalmatineren blitt mest kjent på grunn av Disneys film om The Dalmatian is a breed of dog with a white coat marked with dark-coloured spots.
Originally bred as a hunting dog , [ 2 ] it was also used as a carriage dog in its early days. The origins of this breed can be traced back to Croatia and its historical region of Dalmatia. The Dalmatian is a muscular dog with excellent endurance and stamina. Dalmatian puppies are born with plain white coats and their first spots usually appear within 10 days; however, spots may be visible on their skin from birth.
They continue to develop until the dog is around 18 months old. Spots usually range in size from 2 to 6 cm 1. Liver is the recessive colour in dalmatians, meaning that both parents have to carry the liver gene to produce this colour of pups. If both parents are liver, then all puppies will be liver-spotted. Black spotted dogs always have black noses, and liver spotted dogs always have brown noses.
Other colours that occur occasionally include blue a blue-greyish colour , brindle, mosaic, orange or lemon dark to pale yellow , or tricoloured with black, brown and orange or lemon spots.
Orange and lemon occur the most frequently, especially in America, and are dilutes of the standard colours. They are defined as orange or lemon depending on their nose colour. Another coloration pattern is a larger solid patch of colour, which appears anywhere on the body, but most often on the head, ears, or tail. Patches are visible at birth and are not a group of connected spots; they are identifiable by the smooth edge of the patch, and they have no interlacing white hairs in them.
The Dalmatian coat is usually short, fine, and dense; however, smooth-coated Dalmatians occasionally produce long-coated offspring.
Dalmatian Breed Profile
Long-coated Dalmatians are not accepted by the breed standard, but these individuals experience much less shedding than their smooth-coated counterparts, which shed considerably year-round. The standard variety's short, stiff hairs often weave into carpet, clothing, upholstery, and nearly any other kind of fabric and can be difficult to remove. Weekly grooming with a hound mitt or currycomb can lessen the amount of hair Dalmatians shed, although nothing can completely prevent shedding.
Due to the minimal amount of oil in their coats, Dalmatians lack a dog odour and stay fairly clean relative to many other dog breeds. Dalmatians usually have litters of six to nine pups. A UK study found a life expectancy of In their late teens, both males and females may suffer from bone spurs and arthritic conditions. Autoimmune thyroiditis may be a relatively common condition for the breed, affecting The breed is predisposed the following dermatological conditions: atopic dermatitis , solar dermatosis , and squamous cell carcinoma.
A study in the UK found This study also found no association between coat colour and deafness. This study concluded that genes other than those responsible for colouring significantly contributed to deafness. This study found that the evidence of a single gene being responsible for deafness to be unlikely.
Dalmatian: Dog Breed Characteristics & Care
Researchers now know deafness in albino and piebald animals is caused by the absence of mature melanocytes in the inner ear. Typically, only dogs with bilateral hearing are bred, although those with unilateral hearing, and even dogs with bilateral deafness , make fine pets with appropriate training. The British Dalmatian Club recommends only purchasing pups who are BAER-tested, and requests all members to provide BAER testing results of their puppies so that the true deafness statistics can be looked at.
It has been proved that it is the inheritance of the extreme piebald gene that causes blue eyes. It is therefore frowned upon to breed from blue-eyed Dalmatians even if they are fully hearing. A North American study of veterinary hospital records found that of over 9, Dalmatians, 1. Dalmatians, like humans , can suffer from hyperuricemia. Uric acid can also be excreted in high concentration into the urine , causing kidney stones and bladder stones.
These conditions are most likely to occur in middle-aged males. Males over ten are prone to kidney stones and should have their calcium intake reduced or be given preventive medication. Hyperuricemia in Dalmatians responds to treatment with orgotein , the veterinary formulation of the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase. Hyperuricemia in Dalmatians as in all breeds is inherited, but unlike other breeds, the normal gene for a uric acid transporter that allows for uric acid to enter liver cells and be subsequently broken down is not present in the breed's gene pool.
Therefore, there is no possibility of eliminating hyperuricemia among pure-bred Dalmatians. The only possible solution to this problem must then be crossing Dalmatians with other breeds to reintroduce the normal uric acid transporter gene. This led to the foundation of the Dalmatian-Pointer Backcross Project, which aims to reintroduce the normal uric acid transporter gene into the Dalmatian breed.
The backcross used a single English Pointer ; subsequent breedings have all been to purebred Dalmatians.