![]() Boil brown rice and chicken in a pot and add in sweet potatoes, carrots and spinach. No need to make preparing the food a huge issue either. To provide your dog with just a bit of variety in his diet, some home-made food added into the dry kibble from time to time will delight your pet. If you go for the best quality commercially manufactured dog foods, you’ll find they are both convenient and well balanced. A good nutritious diet with vitamins and minerals will give your dog less of a chance to get sick. Many things can change a dog’s longevity, and diet is one. He also loves ball games, being pulled along while he holds tightly on to a piece of rope and he loves darting back and forwards with a frisbee. The Podengo is always game and ready for a good time and likes nothing more than a good walk as well as the chance to get off his leash and have a bit of free time. This explains why it doesn’t have such a ‘companionable’ temperament as some other dog breeds. It is said that the Portuguese Podengo isn't bred to be a companion dog, being bred exclusively as a working hunting dog. He is somewhat aloof around strangers and this is actually what makes him a good watchdog. He is intelligent, he is easily trained and socialized and gets on well with children in the house if they have been disciplined to respect and be kind to animals. Being alert, he also makes a good watchdog. This Portuguese sighthound is energetic, comical sometimes, sweet and loving. The coat is found in shades of fawn or yellow and with some white markings. The coat is essentially short and smooth though you also get the longer, wiry coat. ![]() The body of the dog is lean and well muscled and the head wedge shaped. The eyes are brown, the ears are erect and the tail long and thick, held low and with a bit of a curve when at rest. The dog is similar in looks to other hunting dogs native to the Mediterranean, such as the Pharoah Hound. He stands roughly at between 20 to 30 cm and weighs between 4.1 to 5.9 kg. The Portuguese Podengo is available in three sizes. ![]() The English White Terrier was not recognized by any Kennel Club and within 30 years it was extinct. Because of this it was not very popular, and it actually had been bred to be a show dog and not a working dog. They were the smallest of all terriers and considered to be a good pet but not a show dog or a working dog. They considered them to be the same breed and not even different types. The new English White Terrier had dropped ears instead of Prick-ears. The breed faced many genetic issues, deafness and the Kennel Clubs felt there was no difference between the current White English terrier and the English White terrier despite the difference in their ears. ![]() The Kennel Club recognized them in 1874 as the White English Terrier. In the early part of the 19th century, the white terrier began to be completely white with no markings. Before this it is believed that breeders killed the white terriers at birth because they were often deaf and inferior to the other terriers. Others began to show the same kind of terriers in their artwork – white coated. White terriers came onto the scene around the 1700’s.The first picture of white terriers appeared in 1790 when Sawre Gilpin, a British artist, painted “A Huntsman with Hounds Foxhunting” and the terriers in the painting were white with brown marks. Most of these ancestors of the English White Terrier were not white. It is believed that terriers who “went to ground” after prey, existed as far back as the time of Christ in England. Most historians agree that the dogs were even older than the 1400’s. The word terrier was in use in England in 1440, showing that the dogs were well known at that time. In later years in the United States, the English White Terrier was mixed again with the Rat Terrier and the Old English Bulldog to create both the Boston terrier and the Bull terrier.Īlthough the breed did not last long it did have a prestigious ancestry that could be traced back centuries in England among ancient terriers. They named their new breed, the English White Terrier or the Old English terrier. These breeders were looking for a white terrier that could be more successful in the show ring than the current prick-eared English terrier. The English White Terrier was developed in the 1860’s by a group of breeders from the Sealyham terriers, the Jack Russell terrier, and the Fox Terrier.
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