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 Dogs |
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... is now almost entirely exploded ; for while it accounts somewhat ingeniously
for the varieties which are met with , yet it is contradicted by tủe stubborn fact that
, in the present day , the cross of the dog with either of these animals , if produced
...
... is now almost entirely exploded ; for while it accounts somewhat ingeniously
for the varieties which are met with , yet it is contradicted by tủe stubborn fact that
, in the present day , the cross of the dog with either of these animals , if produced
...
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... on carefully examining the description given by Arrian , no one can doubt that
the dog of his day was rough in his coat , and in all respects like the present
Scotch dog . In shape the Scotch greyhound resembles the ordinary smooth
variety ...
... on carefully examining the description given by Arrian , no one can doubt that
the dog of his day was rough in his coat , and in all respects like the present
Scotch dog . In shape the Scotch greyhound resembles the ordinary smooth
variety ...
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... the cross , and it is accordingly abandoned by almost all the breeders of the
animal . Nevertheless , some of the best dogs of the present day have a strain of
the rough dog in them ROUGH SCOTCH GREYHOUND AND DEERHOUND . 23.
... the cross , and it is accordingly abandoned by almost all the breeders of the
animal . Nevertheless , some of the best dogs of the present day have a strain of
the rough dog in them ROUGH SCOTCH GREYHOUND AND DEERHOUND . 23.
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We must , therefore , be content to take each as we find it , and rest content with
investigating its present condition ; perhaps in some cases extending our
researches back for fifty or a hundred years , 24 DOMESTICATED HUNTING -
DOGS .
We must , therefore , be content to take each as we find it , and rest content with
investigating its present condition ; perhaps in some cases extending our
researches back for fifty or a hundred years , 24 DOMESTICATED HUNTING -
DOGS .
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Hence the sport was forbidden to the middle classes , and it was not until the
passing of the present game laws , in 1831 , that it was thrown open to them .
From that time to the present the possession of the greyhound has been coveted
and ...
Hence the sport was forbidden to the middle classes , and it was not until the
passing of the present game laws , in 1831 , that it was thrown open to them .
From that time to the present the possession of the greyhound has been coveted
and ...
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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...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | 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 Dogs |
| Autor | John Henry Walsh |
| Edição | 2 |
| Editora | Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1872 |
| Original de | Universidade de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 8 Jan 2008 |
| Número de páginas | 470 páginas |
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