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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... seen in that animal . The attempt made by Linnæus to distinguish the dog as having a tail curved to the left , is evidently without any reliable founda- tion , as though there are far more with the tail on that side than on the right ...
... seen in that animal . The attempt made by Linnæus to distinguish the dog as having a tail curved to the left , is evidently without any reliable founda- tion , as though there are far more with the tail on that side than on the right ...
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... portrait of the dingo , it will at once be seen that it resembles the fox so closely in the shape of its body , that an ordinary observer could readily mistake it for one of that. The Dingo . ( Youatt . ) Captain Daintree's " KING COB . "
... portrait of the dingo , it will at once be seen that it resembles the fox so closely in the shape of its body , that an ordinary observer could readily mistake it for one of that. The Dingo . ( Youatt . ) Captain Daintree's " KING COB . "
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... seen , describe them as confining their attacks entirely to wild animals , and assert that they will not prey on sheep , goats , & c .; but others , in the country extending southward from Jelinah and Mechungunge , maintain that cattle ...
... seen , describe them as confining their attacks entirely to wild animals , and assert that they will not prey on sheep , goats , & c .; but others , in the country extending southward from Jelinah and Mechungunge , maintain that cattle ...
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... seen . Mr. Scrope , the talented author of " Deer - stalking , " gives the following description of Buskar , a celebrated deerhound belonging to Captain McNeill of Colonsay , viz .: height , 28 inches ; girth round the chest , 32 inches ...
... seen . Mr. Scrope , the talented author of " Deer - stalking , " gives the following description of Buskar , a celebrated deerhound belonging to Captain McNeill of Colonsay , viz .: height , 28 inches ; girth round the chest , 32 inches ...
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... seen in some other kinds . The greyhound , on the contrary , has the pure blue or iron grey colour very commonly ; and although this shade is not admired by any lovers of the animal for its beauty , it will make its appearance ...
... seen in some other kinds . The greyhound , on the contrary , has the pure blue or iron grey colour very commonly ; and although this shade is not admired by any lovers of the animal for its beauty , it will make its appearance ...
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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...