Anglos-Francaises

The standard of the three varieties has still not been defined since according to the presence in major or minor degree of characteristics of one of them, each dog presents/displays slight joint differences. Nevertheless, it can say that the characteristics already enough are determined: for the tricolor, for example, it can be spoken of a head not too wide, solid body and a little extended.

Like average term, the calculated nutritional needs in ration of maintenance are of 1,600 - 1,700 Kcal. daily. Also for this dog, used for the hunting in packs, the energy is intuible that it spends. After hours of persecution. The contribution in Kcal. therefore it will be very elevated, not only to obtain results in the work but also, to reduce the risks to contract diseases as a result of the realised effort.

The training, allows to have to all the units of the pack in form physically assuring this way, that the group will have the same speed and, therefore, also the result of the search. The cleaning of the coat must be made frequently, with a brush of vitally important bristles to weekly carry out a control on the possible presence of garrapatas that hide, preferably in the interior or behind the ears and also in the legs. These parasites, dangerous because they transmit diseases of the blood (piroplasmosis), take off with the hand, applying previously on them a acaricida substance, kerosene or gasoline. After this cleaning manual, it is come to give to the dog a bath him with “anti-parasite champú”.

Of these three varieties that grouped dogs that up to 1957 were cosiderados bastards, still is not possible to determine the standard. They essentially maintain the characters of the French races from which the Poitevin for Tricolor, the Gascón Saintongeois for Blanquinegro and a French bloodhound with smooth hair for the Target and orange-united to those of the Foxhound comes that is to say, which they have been crossed.

Crossing the race of the Poitou Stop (Poitevin), considered as one of the best dogs of hunting of other times, with the English Foxhound, the French criadores have created a race of called mestizos exactly the “Bastards of the Poitou Stop”. These “Bastards” as also French manual of hunting is said to them in eI, do not represent only a crossover of Poitevin with Foxhound, but he is dogs that also have received, and in a quite high proportion, blood of the Saintonge, coming in this way to train a later group of “Bastards” who have taken the layer from the Gascón-Saintongeois. All these mixtures, have given life to a group of anglian-French races that are classified according to their conformation, its size and the color of their layer. One of these three groups is exactly the great Anglian-French, divided in three different types, according to the color.

Under this denomination, three French varieties of sign for the huntings straddling the greater hunting are included/understood and than “dogs of races” represent an important part of the Gallic young of the calls. These three varieties - tricolor, Blanquinegro, orange Target and conserve the exceptional sense of smell of the French bloodhounds and the force and power of the Anglo-Saxon dogs of sign like the Foxhound, that has played an essential role in the creation of this race.