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 89
... drops his nose to the ground in feeling for a scent , while the pointer carries his head in the air , and tries for the body scent as it is wafted on the breeze . The true old Spanish pointer is hardly to be met with now in a pure state ...
... drops his nose to the ground in feeling for a scent , while the pointer carries his head in the air , and tries for the body scent as it is wafted on the breeze . The true old Spanish pointer is hardly to be met with now in a pure state ...
Página 98
... drop and not stand as the pointer does ; but how this change was effected we do not exactly know , though there can be no doubt of the fact . The following may be hazarded as the most probable explanation of this change which has taken ...
... drop and not stand as the pointer does ; but how this change was effected we do not exactly know , though there can be no doubt of the fact . The following may be hazarded as the most probable explanation of this change which has taken ...
Página 107
... drops , caused either by rain or dew . Hardi- hood , therefore , is essential , and though a little dog may possess it , there are few instances of anything under 12 or 14 pounds being able to stand the wet and labour of a day's covert ...
... drops , caused either by rain or dew . Hardi- hood , therefore , is essential , and though a little dog may possess it , there are few instances of anything under 12 or 14 pounds being able to stand the wet and labour of a day's covert ...
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... 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 courage ...
... 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 courage ...
Página 168
... dropping their noses , and hunting out all the turns of the hare nearly as well as the beagle . Hence it is not to be supposed that the nose of the lurcher is derived from the sheep - dog's side only , for both being good , he may be ...
... dropping their noses , and hunting out all the turns of the hare nearly as well as the beagle . Hence it is not to be supposed that the nose of the lurcher is derived from the sheep - dog's side only , for both being good , he may be ...
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