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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... strain which has enlisted their attention , and for the facilities which they have afforded me I here beg to record my most sincere thanks . Book I. contains the Natural History of the Dog , with a minute description of the varieties ...
... strain which has enlisted their attention , and for the facilities which they have afforded me I here beg to record my most sincere thanks . Book I. contains the Natural History of the Dog , with a minute description of the varieties ...
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... strains from which they are descended . An attempt has been made by M. F. Cuvier to arrange these varie- ties under three primary divisions , which are founded upon the shape of the head , and the length of the jaws ; these being ...
... strains from which they are descended . An attempt has been made by M. F. Cuvier to arrange these varie- ties under three primary divisions , which are founded upon the shape of the head , and the length of the jaws ; these being ...
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... strain , or of going on with the two crosses , would be unsatisfactory . " Maida , " the celebrated deerhound be- longing to Sir Walter Scott , was a cross of the greyhound with the bloodhound , but some distance off the latter . The ...
... strain , or of going on with the two crosses , would be unsatisfactory . " Maida , " the celebrated deerhound be- longing to Sir Walter Scott , was a cross of the greyhound with the bloodhound , but some distance off the latter . The ...
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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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... strain of the rough dog in them , but it is gradu- ally dying out as compared with ten or twenty years ago . It is alleged , and I fancy with some truth , that the rough dog runs cunning sooner than the smooth , and hence the cross is ...
... strain of the rough dog in them , but it is gradu- ally dying out as compared with ten or twenty years ago . It is alleged , and I fancy with some truth , that the rough dog runs cunning sooner than the smooth , and hence the cross is ...
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