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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Página 105
... cold , enabled us to bag double the head of game that mine did . Nor did they lose one solitary wounded bird ; whereas , with my own dogs , I lost six brace the first two days of partridge - shooting , most of them in standing corn ...
... cold , enabled us to bag double the head of game that mine did . Nor did they lose one solitary wounded bird ; whereas , with my own dogs , I lost six brace the first two days of partridge - shooting , most of them in standing corn ...
Página 116
... cold for him when any game is on it . His powers of swimming and diving are immense , and he will continue in it for hours together , after which he gives his coat a shake and is soon dry . Indeed , when he first comes out he does not ...
... cold for him when any game is on it . His powers of swimming and diving are immense , and he will continue in it for hours together , after which he gives his coat a shake and is soon dry . Indeed , when he first comes out he does not ...
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... cold . Hundreds of anecdotes are told of extraordinary escapes from drowning by means of these dogs , their tendency to fetch and carry being doubly useful here . Children and light small women may be intrusted to them with safety in ...
... cold . Hundreds of anecdotes are told of extraordinary escapes from drowning by means of these dogs , their tendency to fetch and carry being doubly useful here . Children and light small women may be intrusted to them with safety in ...
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... cold of winter the puppies are apt to become chilled , whereby their growth is stopped , and some disease very often developed . Among public greyhounds there is a particular reason for selecting an earlier period of the year , because ...
... cold of winter the puppies are apt to become chilled , whereby their growth is stopped , and some disease very often developed . Among public greyhounds there is a particular reason for selecting an earlier period of the year , because ...
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... cold . HEALTHY PARTURITION . During whelping , the only management required is in regard to food and quiet , which last should as far as possible be en- joined , as at this time all bitches are watchful and suspicious , and will destroy ...
... cold . HEALTHY PARTURITION . During whelping , the only management required is in regard to food and quiet , which last should as far as possible be en- joined , as at this time all bitches are watchful and suspicious , and will destroy ...
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