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Dog Muscular System & Disease
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The Dog Muscular System has three types of muscles: the smooth ones, that control the inner organ movements; the cardiac ones, that constitute the biggest part of the heart and the ribbed or skeptical ones, that are all the rest. The dog can voluntarily control each and every one of its skeptical muscles.
The muscles are formed by some fibers that are contracted by an electrical impulse and that are joint to the bone by tendons. The muscular contractions and relaxation move the articulations making them fold or extend, move in, out or rotate. There is a muscle for each one of the others that makes the opposite function and thanks to this process it is possible for the movements to reach such a great degree of precision.
Besides the most obvious movements, the muscles are also in charge of other less visible movements as the ones produced when shaking or shivering, breathing, defecating or in the delivery. training a dog with a bark control collar
MOTION SYSTEM and its diseases
The dog's body is a miraculous machine. Besides walking on a quiet and ammoniac way, the dog can run at great speeds, jump and swim. Its body has, as well, a great flexibility which allows them to go from making a ball of itself to stepping on its rear paws with no real effort. The agility of the dogs, along with their versatile nature have aloud the human to use them in a variety of tasks along the centuries; from people's rescue to hunting; from animal traction to bug extermination, even going through fighting as a sport. fancy dog harnesses
SWIMMING Dog
Even when all the dogs can swim by instinct, some breeds were specially bred to work specifically in an aquatic environment. The Newfoundlander, provided with a thick insulated coat, is not only a great swimmer, but it also has flatted paws. On its origins, this breed was bred and trained to help the fishermen pull the nets full of fishes and later on to rescue people who had fallen into the water. This dog has such a strength that it can take an oar boat out of the water if it is trained in that task. The news of a Newfoundland rescuing a swimmer, who wanted to enjoy the calmness of the water, against his will, are very numerous.
Other breeds as the Poodle and the Portuguese Water Dog (that can be trained in recovering fallen fishing nets and bring them to shore while swimming), own their current aspect to the swimming origin of their breeds. Their current haircut derives from the ones used when they used to be working dogs in order to improve their mobility in the water and keeping their articulations very warm.
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