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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... the life , the specimens selected being of the most perfect symmetry and of the purest breed within my reach . For many of them I am indebted to gentlemen who have given up their best energies to improve vi PREFACE .
... the life , the specimens selected being of the most perfect symmetry and of the purest breed within my reach . For many of them I am indebted to gentlemen who have given up their best energies to improve vi PREFACE .
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... perfect specimen of the 91 96 • Head of the Bloodhound 51 Setter " Hermit , " a highbred modern Fox- The Gordon Setter . .97 € 102 hound 55 • " Grasper , " a Harrier , and " Trueman , " English blood a Foxhound - Harrier 63 A Russian ...
... perfect specimen of the 91 96 • Head of the Bloodhound 51 Setter " Hermit , " a highbred modern Fox- The Gordon Setter . .97 € 102 hound 55 • " Grasper , " a Harrier , and " Trueman , " English blood a Foxhound - Harrier 63 A Russian ...
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... perfect sym- metry , and one with good shape and colour of eight pounds is to be preferred to a smaller dog of less perfect symmetry ITALIAN GREYHOUND . 45.
... perfect sym- metry , and one with good shape and colour of eight pounds is to be preferred to a smaller dog of less perfect symmetry ITALIAN GREYHOUND . 45.
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... perfect symmetry . Beyond 12 lbs . the dog is scarcely to be considered a pure Italian , though sometimes exceptions occur , and a puppy of pure blood with a sire and dam of small size may grow to such a weight as 16 lbs . The black dog ...
... perfect symmetry . Beyond 12 lbs . the dog is scarcely to be considered a pure Italian , though sometimes exceptions occur , and a puppy of pure blood with a sire and dam of small size may grow to such a weight as 16 lbs . The black dog ...
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... perfect . With regard to their being sizeable , what Somerville says is so much in your own way that I shall send it you : ' As some brave captain , curious and exact , By his fix'd standard , forms in equal ranks His gay battalion as ...
... perfect . With regard to their being sizeable , what Somerville says is so much in your own way that I shall send it you : ' As some brave captain , curious and exact , By his fix'd standard , forms in equal ranks His gay battalion 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...