Australian Cattle Dog

• 运动量非常高

  有任务、运动或高强度日常运动时最活跃。

• 美容每周梳理

  每周梳理一次可保持被毛健康。

• 居住空间灵活

  只要活动充足，能适应多数家庭。

• 饲养经验适合有经验者

  回报懂行的主人。

• 长期投入12–16 年

  为一段长久而有爱的关系做好准备。

需留意的健康: 耳聋 · 进行性视网膜萎缩 · 髋关节发育不良

The Australian Cattle Dog — the 'Heeler', with dingo in its ancestry and distinctive blue or red speckles — is a tough, brilliant, tireless herding dog whose work drive never clocks out. Bred to drive cattle across vast distances by nipping their heels, it is intensely energetic, intelligent and independent, and it is emphatically not a casual pet: it needs hours of daily physical exercise plus serious mental work, or it turns its drive to destruction, escaping, and nipping at heels (people's included). It bonds like glue to one person, is naturally wary of strangers, and needs early socialisation and consistent, engaging, positive training. Given a real job, it is an astonishingly capable, loyal partner. The short, weather-resistant double coat is easy, needing only weekly brushing, more during moults. Health-wise the breed is famously hardy and long-lived (some reach their late teens), but buy from a breeder who screens hips and tests hearing and eyes, since it is prone to congenital deafness, progressive retinal atrophy and hip and elbow dysplasia. Match an ACD only to a home that can truly work its body and mind every day, and it will be an extraordinary, devoted companion for twelve to sixteen years.

• Australian Cattle Dog需要多少运动量？

  非常高. 有任务、运动或高强度日常运动时最活跃。

• Australian Cattle Dog需要多少美容护理？

  每周梳理. 每周梳理一次可保持被毛健康。

• Australian Cattle Dog适合公寓生活吗？

  灵活. 只要活动充足，能适应多数家庭。

• Australian Cattle Dog适合新手饲主吗？

  适合有经验者. 回报懂行的主人。

• Australian Cattle Dog能活多久？

  12–16 年. 为一段长久而有爱的关系做好准备。

• Australian Cattle Dog有哪些常见健康问题？

  留意耳聋, 进行性视网膜萎缩, 髋关节发育不良。建议与兽医沟通，并进行推荐的筛查。

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