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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... is quite as ready to hunt in packs as any other hound , and is only prevented from doing so by the hand of his master . The same restraint keeps him from using his nose , or he could soon be. 12 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... is quite as ready to hunt in packs as any other hound , and is only prevented from doing so by the hand of his master . The same restraint keeps him from using his nose , or he could soon be. 12 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... keeping his head much higher than the greyhound , because he uses this attitude in waiting to pull down his game . By some people it is supposed that the smooth variety of the greyhound is as old as the rough ; but , on carefully ...
... keeping his head much higher than the greyhound , because he uses this attitude in waiting to pull down his game . By some people it is supposed that the smooth variety of the greyhound is as old as the rough ; but , on carefully ...
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... keeping him . Numberless hypotheses have been brought forward relative to the origin of the greyhound , Buffon tracing him to the French nation , and some other writers fancying that they could with more probability consider him as the ...
... keeping him . Numberless hypotheses have been brought forward relative to the origin of the greyhound , Buffon tracing him to the French nation , and some other writers fancying that they could with more probability consider him as the ...
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... keeping to the hunted deer , which is not the case with the fashionable staghound of the day . ever , in getting at a true description of the old staghound , and as it can only be valuable to the antiquarian , I shall not attempt any ...
... keeping to the hunted deer , which is not the case with the fashionable staghound of the day . ever , in getting at a true description of the old staghound , and as it can only be valuable to the antiquarian , I shall not attempt any ...
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... keep to such a model as can be produced in number suffi- cient to form the pack , which is another argument in favour of a medium size ; and hence , in looking at a pack , together or separ- ately , the lover of the foxhound is always ...
... keep to such a model as can be produced in number suffi- cient to form the pack , which is another argument in favour of a medium size ; and hence , in looking at a pack , together or separ- ately , the lover of the foxhound is always ...
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