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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... also possess one or two couple which they use for covert shooting , though even here this breed is giving way to the spaniel . In external form the beagle resembles the southern hound , 66 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
... also possess one or two couple which they use for covert shooting , though even here this breed is giving way to the spaniel . In external form the beagle resembles the southern hound , 66 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
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... covert , where he is chiefly employed . Although not used for water , where the water spaniel is pre - eminent , his coat must be of such a thick nature as to bear long - continued wet , inasmuch as he is generally soaked with it ...
... covert , where he is chiefly employed . Although not used for water , where the water spaniel is pre - eminent , his coat must be of such a thick nature as to bear long - continued wet , inasmuch as he is generally soaked with it ...
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... covert . In the present day , a very fashionable breed ( the Clumber ) , is invariably mute ; but as these dogs are chiefly used in aid of the battue , there is not the same neces- sity for them to give notice of their approach , as in ...
... covert . In the present day , a very fashionable breed ( the Clumber ) , is invariably mute ; but as these dogs are chiefly used in aid of the battue , there is not the same neces- sity for them to give notice of their approach , as in ...
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... should be thick and wavy , but not absolutely curled , which last shows the cross with the water spaniel , and that gives too much obstinacy with it to conduce to success in covert shooting . The colour varies I THE COCKER . 113.
... should be thick and wavy , but not absolutely curled , which last shows the cross with the water spaniel , and that gives too much obstinacy with it to conduce to success in covert shooting . The colour varies I THE COCKER . 113.
Página 114
... covert shooting . The colour varies from a plain liver or black to black and tan , white and black , white and liver , white and red , or white and lemon ; and different breeds are noted as possessing some one of these in particular ...
... covert shooting . The colour varies from a plain liver or black to black and tan , white and black , white and liver , white and red , or white and lemon ; and different breeds are noted as possessing some one of these in particular ...
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