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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... legs , or tail ; and even a star on the breast is considered a defect , though not so great as on the feet . The size most prized is when the specified weight is about six or eight pounds ; but dogs of this weight have seldom perfect ...
... legs , or tail ; and even a star on the breast is considered a defect , though not so great as on the feet . The size most prized is when the specified weight is about six or eight pounds ; but dogs of this weight have seldom perfect ...
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... legs and feet straight and good , muscular thighs , and fine tapering and gracefully waving stern ; colour black - tan , or deep and reddish fawn ( no white should be shown but on just 32 52 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
... legs and feet straight and good , muscular thighs , and fine tapering and gracefully waving stern ; colour black - tan , or deep and reddish fawn ( no white should be shown but on just 32 52 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
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... legs , well - furnished thighs , full ears , which are not required to be rounded so much as the foxhound's , inas- much as they do nothing in covert , and sterns feathered like the ordinary foxhound . The endurance of the staghound is ...
... legs , well - furnished thighs , full ears , which are not required to be rounded so much as the foxhound's , inas- much as they do nothing in covert , and sterns feathered like the ordinary foxhound . The endurance of the staghound is ...
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... legs be straight as arrows , his feet round and not too large ; his shoulders back ; his breast rather wide than nar- row ; his chest deep ; his back broad ; his head small ; his neck thin ; his tail thick and brushy , if he carry it ...
... legs be straight as arrows , his feet round and not too large ; his shoulders back ; his breast rather wide than nar- row ; his chest deep ; his back broad ; his head small ; his neck thin ; his tail thick and brushy , if he carry it ...
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... legs in pro- portion to it . The head is very wide and round , with a short square nose , very full and soft drooping ears , good feet , and not much hair on the body , but with a slight brush on the tail . Their tongues are most ...
... legs in pro- portion to it . The head is very wide and round , with a short square nose , very full and soft drooping ears , good feet , and not much hair on the body , but with a slight brush on the tail . Their tongues are most ...
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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...