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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... covered by a coat of hair of a reddish brown or bay colour . The tail is dark towards its extremity . The limbs are light , compact , and strong , and equally calculated for speed and power . They resemble many of the common pariah dogs ...
... covered by a coat of hair of a reddish brown or bay colour . The tail is dark towards its extremity . The limbs are light , compact , and strong , and equally calculated for speed and power . They resemble many of the common pariah dogs ...
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... covered by their usual moving powers , and will then show the substance which is desired . It is also desir- able to have depth of back from above downwards , by which the whole body is " buckled and unbuckled " with quickness and power ...
... covered by their usual moving powers , and will then show the substance which is desired . It is also desir- able to have depth of back from above downwards , by which the whole body is " buckled and unbuckled " with quickness and power ...
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... covered with hard skin is to be insisted on . If the grey- hound has this he will stand his work , while its absence renders him at all times liable to become footsore , and incapable of doing it . The HIND QUARTER is entirely ...
... covered with hard skin is to be insisted on . If the grey- hound has this he will stand his work , while its absence renders him at all times liable to become footsore , and incapable of doing it . The HIND QUARTER is entirely ...
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... covering them are strong enough to put them in action . The FORE QUARTER is composed of the shoulder , the upper arm ... covered with muscles , and moving freely on the ribs , which it sel- dom does if the two blades are kept wide apart ...
... covering them are strong enough to put them in action . The FORE QUARTER is composed of the shoulder , the upper arm ... covered with muscles , and moving freely on the ribs , which it sel- dom does if the two blades are kept wide apart ...
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... covered with long hair round the neck is called . The body is of good length , with a strong loin , wide hips , and rather arched ribs , the chest being well let down , but not in a hatchet shape as in the greyhound , and the depth of ...
... covered with long hair round the neck is called . The body is of good length , with a strong loin , wide hips , and rather arched ribs , the chest being well let down , but not in a hatchet shape as in the greyhound , and the depth of ...
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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...