GORDON SETTER

He is native of Great Britain. Descendant of spaniels of sample that crossed along with native dogs to form a race adapted to the conditions of hunting of Scotland. He took his present name in century XVIII from the famous pack of Duke de Gordon.

It owns a temperament noble and easy to tame, reason why he is an excellent companion for the family. He is a good collector by nature: it has good sense of smell and a high resistance for the long own days of the hunting.

Intelligent, faithful, noble, it cheers, always it alerts and juguetón, are qualities sufficient to have a dog of this race in house, like companion of the children, in addition always it looks for the protection of his family and home, working well like guardian, without getting to show an aggressive instinct.

It requires that one spends to time and space to him to exercise itself, because its nature demands to him to be in form. Its hair does not need much taken care of, since he is not very long, but requires cepillado per week like minimum.

The daily cost average of maintenance with commercial food can go from $ 6 to $ 7, with a consumption from 450 to 800 g.