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 contradicted by the stubborn fact that , in the present day , the cross of the dog with either of these animals , if produced , is in- capable of continuing the species when paired with one of 4 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... is contradicted by the stubborn fact that , in the present day , the cross of the dog with either of these animals , if produced , is in- capable of continuing the species when paired with one of 4 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... present Scotch dog . In shape the Scotch greyhound resembles the ordinary smooth variety , but he is rather more lathy , and has not quite the same muscular development of loin and thigh , though , the bony frame being more fully ...
... present Scotch dog . In shape the Scotch greyhound resembles the ordinary smooth variety , but he is rather more lathy , and has not quite the same muscular development of loin and thigh , though , the bony frame being more fully ...
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... 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.
... 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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... therefore , be content to take each as we find it , and rest content with in- vestigating its present condition ; perhaps in some cases extending our researches back for fifty or a hundred years , 24 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
... therefore , be content to take each as we find it , and rest content with in- vestigating 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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... 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 obtained by great numbers of country gentlemen and farmers in rural districts , and by ...
... 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 obtained by great numbers of country gentlemen and farmers in rural districts , and by ...
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