Libro Razas Españolas

Burgos Pointing Dog (Perdiguero de Burgos) The Iberian Peninsula has been, in the hunting tradition, the original epicentre of many pointing dog breeds. The old and extinct Spanish Pointing Dog is the cornerstone from which many European pointing breeds derive. It has been wrote a lot about the Spanish pointing breeds, even in texts of classical authors, but the Burgos Pointing Dog is extensively described for the very first time in 1644 in the book “Archery and Falconry Art” by Alonso Martinez del Espinar, main crossbowman of King Felipe IV. During the first 25 years of the Real Sociedad Canina de España (Spanish Kennel Club), 500 Burgos Pointing Dogs were recorded in the Spanish Stud Book (L.O.E.). The Spanish Civil War was a serious obstacle for the surviving of the breed, but in the last decades of 20th Century, the Burgos Pointing Dogs lived a new boom in its breeding and using for hunting. Its versatility, temperament and morphology make it worthy of fame between Spanish and international dog lovers, having nothing to envy to similar but most popular breeds, such as the Italian Bracco. Las razas caninas españolas - Spanish canine breeds 266