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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... amount of road work . The height varies from 10 inches to 16 , or even 20 . Colour most admired white , either pure or patched with black , blue , red , fawn , or brindle . Sometimes also black and tan , or self- coloured red . THE ...
... amount of road work . The height varies from 10 inches to 16 , or even 20 . Colour most admired white , either pure or patched with black , blue , red , fawn , or brindle . Sometimes also black and tan , or self- coloured red . THE ...
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... amount of practice . I have known a great many greyhounds which would never miss a hare if once sighted , or even put on the fresh scent , dropping their noses , and hunting out all the turns of the hare nearly as well as the beagle ...
... amount of practice . I have known a great many greyhounds which would never miss a hare if once sighted , or even put on the fresh scent , dropping their noses , and hunting out all the turns of the hare nearly as well as the beagle ...
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... amount of milk and thick- ened broth must be increased each day , as well as more fre- quently given . Some art , founded on experience , is required not to satiate the puppies ; but , by carefully increasing the quantity whenever the ...
... amount of milk and thick- ened broth must be increased each day , as well as more fre- quently given . Some art , founded on experience , is required not to satiate the puppies ; but , by carefully increasing the quantity whenever the ...
Página 206
... amount of artificial heat , which con- duces to the growth of the puppies , and allows them to be reared sufficiently strong to bear any cold afterwards with impunity . If the weather is not cold , an ordinary horse - box is the best ...
... amount of artificial heat , which con- duces to the growth of the puppies , and allows them to be reared sufficiently strong to bear any cold afterwards with impunity . If the weather is not cold , an ordinary horse - box is the best ...
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... amount of cold if unaccompanied by damp , provided they have plenty of straw to lie in ; but a damp kennel , even if warm , is sure to lead to rickets or rheumatism , if the puppies escape in- flammation of some one or more of the ...
... amount of cold if unaccompanied by damp , provided they have plenty of straw to lie in ; but a damp kennel , even if warm , is sure to lead to rickets or rheumatism , if the puppies escape in- flammation of some one or more of the ...
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