Today's dogs are not only used as working dogs and family pets, but many dogs are also the protagonists and Internet celebrities in many movies.
And the first generation of Internet red dogs, I have to say that in the 1961 Disney cartoon "101 Loyal Dogs", also known as "101 Spotted Dogs", and later filmed a live-action version, the 101 dogs in it were bred as "Damai Town" dogs, which also set off a spotted dog fever at that time.
Cartoon "101 Spotted Dogs"
The story of "101 Spotted Dogs" is that Roger and Anita's barley dog Pengo and Bai Petty are married and form a happy family. It wasn't long before White Petty gave birth to fifteen puppies. While the family is enjoying the fun of the puppy, Anita's female boss, Cuyla, has a bad idea. She was worried about making a black and white flecked coat, so she sent someone to kidnap the puppies and lock them up in an empty house in the countryside with eighty-four other barley puppies. Peng Ge and Bai Petty, who found the child missing, gathered the dogs in the city through dog barking to find their children together, and Peng Ge and White Petty rescued the puppies before they were slaughtered and escaped.
Live-action version of "101 Spotted Dogs"
The "Barley Town" dog is what we commonly call the spotted dog, which is a dog breed with a long history, elegant posture and handsomeness. Native to Yugoslavia, it is a medium-sized dog and is good at running. The Barley Machi Dog has a short and thick coat that does not need to be groomed frequently, and the distinctive spotted pattern on the fur is one of its most conspicuous signs, which is particularly recognizable and can be recognized at a glance. This is also the reason why it is called "spotted dog".
The "Barley Town" dog has great endurance and runs quite fast. The muscles of the whole body are strong and evenly distributed, there is no feeling of excess muscle, the legs are slender, the back of the body is strong, and it has smooth and clear muscles. "Damaicho" is also often used as a race dog because of its excellent running and biting ability. "Barley" dogs are born white, spots can be changed, puppies appear slight spots on the body, as they grow older, spots also become obvious and become a unique symbol.
The "Barley Town" dog has a calm and vigilant personality, well-proportioned, strong, muscular, and lively, not shy, intelligent and clever, obedient and easy to train, sensitive, alert, easy to get along with children.
It seems that the "Damai Town" dog has many advantages, but why is it that the once popular Damai Town Dog has become more and more unpopular, and now it is rare to see anyone around it? There are two main reasons: one is that the "Damai Town" dog was once hacked on the Internet, creating a lot of negative public opinion, resulting in many people dare not raise; the other is that the "Damai Town" dog has some defects in the genes and needs special attention when caring. The details of these two reasons I will give you a detailed explanation below.
The main places where the "Barley Town" dog is hacked are as follows:
The first point was blackened, saying that the body odor of the spotted dog was big and smelly.
In fact, the spotted dog, a dog breed with short hair and medium size, as long as it is taken care of and bathed regularly, the body odor will not be too big, and the body odor of other dogs of the same size is similar, and there is no particularly heavy body odor. If you don't bathe it for a month and let it spread in the nest, it will naturally stink, no matter what kind of dog it stinks. So the problem of body odor, spotted dogs are not particularly smelly.
The second point was hacked, saying that spotted dogs were too active and excited, often noisy, and liked to bite.
The reality is that most medium- and large dogs need a certain amount of exercise every day to consume their energy. Dogs about the size of spotted dogs, such as the often seen golden retriever, Labrador, Demu, etc., need their owners to take them out for a walk for at least an hour a day to consume their energy and physical strength, so that they will not be particularly noisy when they return home. Even some active small dogs need to vent excess energy. And when it comes to liking to bite, I believe that the husky will not give in. In terms of horizontal comparison, the amount of activity of the spotted dog is normal, of course, there are wide places where it can run is the best. Therefore, the need for exercise is not a special problem and disadvantage of spotted dogs.
The third point is hacked, saying that the food of the spotted dog is very large.
This is even more nonsense, the amount of food of spotted dogs is the same as other dog breeds of the same size, the owner should control the amount of food of each dog, excessive feeding is not good for the physical development of dogs.
The fourth point was hacked, saying that this dog has a low IQ, likes to pounce on people, and is dangerous.
Spotted dogs have a kinder personality, better obedience, and loyalty to their owners. Although its IQ does not reach the high IQ of the Golden Retriever and Labrador dogs, it is still not difficult to train. Some basic movements, such as sitting, lying down, standing, barking, etc., are very quick to understand and easy to master. As long as the master has patience to discipline, it can also learn many other movements. Any dog without proper training is likely to have a fluttering behavior, so some bad behavior of the dog can not be attributed to the dog's own personality, but more to see whether the owner has been taught. So I've always advocated that all pet dogs should do some basic training.
Next, let's talk about some of the genetic problems of the "Barley Town" dog itself, maybe there are not many people who know this part, I will elaborate.
First, there is the problem of deafness. Due to genetic reasons, about 5% of "Damai" dogs are deaf in both ears. This problem is common in many white dog breeds. Usually, deafness is related to melanin, and in the place where the inner ear of the dog is located behind the eye (you can't see it from the outside), the deaf dog does not have melanin precipitation, but the hearing is sound.
A puppy with sound hearing, when his ear canal has not yet opened, there should be black precipitation in that position. If at 15 days of age, that part of that ear has not yet settled black. Then that ear can never have hearing.
The hereditary nature of deafness is not obvious, it is a matter of probability, and there are some other breeds of dogs: Dogo, Great White Bear, Bullfight, White Bit, Great Dane, White Boxer, and other white breeds of dogs, the probability of deafness is relatively high.
There are some dogs who are born deaf and are unable to communicate with their owners, resulting in abandonment, which is a very tragic thing. For such dogs, I hope that everyone who likes spotted dogs will treat them well, and God will close one window for them, and will inevitably open another window, and do not look at them with discriminatory eyes.
Another factor in the health of the shackled "Barley Town" dog is "hyperuricemia", which can cause gout and kidney stones. Usually we have heard that people suffer from high uric acid, most of them eat meat, eat offal and drink beer. The purebred "Barley Town" dog is born so unlucky, it is easy to suffer from "hyperuricemia", and it is not a matter of probability, but every "Barley Town" dog is like this, all of which are high in uric acid.
This is because purebred "barley" dogs lack the ability to break down uric acid in their genes. And this pathogenic gene is autosomal recessive inheritance, and every individual cannot avoid this gene defect. As long as the feeding is not careful enough, you can't escape the fate of gout and kidney stones. At least 20 years ago, the "Barley Town" dog was like this.
For this dilemma of the "Damai Town" dog, there is a "Damai Town" dog breeding "Robert Schaible" Dr. Who rose to the challenge and used the "Backhanding Program" to improve this genetic defect of the "Barley Town" dog. The specific operation of the "backcrossing plan" is to select healthy British "Boeingda" dogs to cross with "Barley Town" dogs, and continue to select healthy individuals in the offspring, after eight years of hard work, the fifth generation of offspring is not only healthy, but also looks no different from the "Barley Town" dogs.
But there is also a question that arises, is this kind of dog a "barley town" dog? Because genetically speaking, it is definitely a mixed dog, which is commonly known as "string". So is it important to keep genes pure, or is it important to improve defective genes?
This issue actually caused great controversy at the time. Especially in the more conservative Britain, the incorporation of this dog into a purebred dog has been strongly resisted by many British breeders. This is understandable, after all, no one can predict whether this hybridization will bring other unintended consequences. In fact, each era has its own limitations, which at the time seemed to many people to be deviant, and now it has gradually gained everyone's recognition. The U.S. AKC officially allowed these dogs to register as purebred "Barley Town" dogs in 2011. When things got here, it was a relatively happy ending.
In our view today, this act of improving the genetic disease of the dog breed and maintaining the standard of the dog breed can be called great enough to enter the annals of the history of this dog breed. Dr. Robert Schaible is arguably the reborn parent of the Barley Dog and the most influential person in this breed.
This act can be said to be the highest state of breeding. A qualified breeder will be like an artist, who has a blueprint for the direction of breeding and moves in that direction. Top breeders, like Dr. Robert Schaible, can take a breed to new heights.
Now that dozens of kennels around the world have focused on breeding this low-uric acid "barley town" dog, there is a glimmer of light in the haze of this dog's fate. Hopefully, more people will care about them so that they can continue as a healthy breed, even if they don't become the mainstream pet dog breed, but at least people won't reject them as they used to.
That's the story of the "Barley Town" dog.
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