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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... shape of the head , and the length of the jaws ; these being supposed by him to vary in accordance with the degree of cunning and scenting powers , which the animal possessing them displays . The following is his classification , which ...
... shape of the head , and the length of the jaws ; these being supposed by him to vary in accordance with the degree of cunning and scenting powers , which the animal possessing them displays . The following is his classification , which ...
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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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... shape and make with the pure deerhound , and the two can only be distinguished by their style of running when at work or play ; the deerhound , though depending on his nose , keeping his head much higher than the greyhound , because he ...
... shape and make with the pure deerhound , and the two can only be distinguished by their style of running when at work or play ; the deerhound , though depending on his nose , keeping his head much higher than the greyhound , because he ...
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... shape they resemble the greyhound , but they are larger in the bone and shorter in the leg . Some of them , when in slow action , carry the tail over the back like the pure foxhound ; their dash in making a cast is most beautiful , and ...
... shape they resemble the greyhound , but they are larger in the bone and shorter in the leg . Some of them , when in slow action , carry the tail over the back like the pure foxhound ; their dash in making a cast is most beautiful , and ...
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... shape , depending greatly upon the precise object which the intending possessor has in view , since , although the high - bred and low - bred greyhounds are alike externally , yet there is in their internal structure some difference ...
... shape , depending greatly upon the precise object which the intending possessor has in view , since , although the high - bred and low - bred greyhounds are alike externally , yet there is in their internal structure some difference ...
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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...