The Dog in Health and Disease: Comprising the Various Modes of Breaking and Using Him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Etc., and Including the Points Or Characteristics of Toy DogsLongmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1872 - 470 páginas |
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Página 40
... allowed to be the best guide , it must take the place which is here given it , inasmuch as it has all the characteristics of the first division . The Hare - Indian dog inhabits the country watered by the Mackenzie River and the Great ...
... allowed to be the best guide , it must take the place which is here given it , inasmuch as it has all the characteristics of the first division . The Hare - Indian dog inhabits the country watered by the Mackenzie River and the Great ...
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... allowed to remain on . The portion left is sufficient to protect the passage to the internal organ , but for which necessity it would be better to crop them closely , as is practised with dogs intended for fighting ; just as the ...
... allowed to remain on . The portion left is sufficient to protect the passage to the internal organ , but for which necessity it would be better to crop them closely , as is practised with dogs intended for fighting ; just as the ...
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... allowed to hang on and worry his master's nose to his heart's content . But , when differently treated , the bulldog is a very different animal , the brutal nature which he so often displays being mainly attributable to the savage human ...
... allowed to hang on and worry his master's nose to his heart's content . But , when differently treated , the bulldog is a very different animal , the brutal nature which he so often displays being mainly attributable to the savage human ...
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... allowed to drop , the best means of infusing fresh courage into degenerate breeds will be finally lost , except with the addition of extraneous blood which may not suit them ; for I believe that every kind of dog possessed of very high ...
... allowed to drop , the best means of infusing fresh courage into degenerate breeds will be finally lost , except with the addition of extraneous blood which may not suit them ; for I believe that every kind of dog possessed of very high ...
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... allowed to reach full maturity before they are allowed to breed , and this period varies according to size , small dogs being adult at one year , whereas large ones are still in their puppyhood at that time , and take fully twice as ...
... allowed to reach full maturity before they are allowed to breed , and this period varies according to size , small dogs being adult at one year , whereas large ones are still in their puppyhood at that time , and take fully twice as ...
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Página 7 - ... dogs in general, more than the different kinds of dogs do from each other. The cranium is absolutely similar, and so are all, or nearly all, the other essential parts ; and to strengthen still further the probability of their identity, the dog and wolf will readily breed together, and their progeny is fertile. The obliquity of the position of the eyes in the wolf is one of the characters in which it differs from the...
Página 59 - ... he has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. - Let his legs be straight as arrows; his feet round, and not too large; his shoulders back; his breast rather wide than narrow; his chest deep; his back broad; his head small; his neck thin; his tail thick and brushy: if he carry it well, so much the better...