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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... cases , the more the development is increased behind the ears , the higher will be the courage ; and if this can be obtained without a corresponding increase in the diameter in front 88 28 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
... cases , the more the development is increased behind the ears , the higher will be the courage ; and if this can be obtained without a corresponding increase in the diameter in front 88 28 DOMESTICATED HUNTING - DOGS .
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... obtained without a corresponding increase in the diameter in front of those organs , there will be no attendant disadvantage , as the intellectual faculties no doubt reside in the anterior part of the - brain . The best average ...
... obtained without a corresponding increase in the diameter in front of those organs , there will be no attendant disadvantage , as the intellectual faculties no doubt reside in the anterior part of the - brain . The best average ...
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... obtained for a short distance , it is impossible to maintain it , and then we have a flashy animal , who is brought up at the end of a quarter of a mile . What is meant by the comparison to the beam is not only that it shall be strong ...
... obtained for a short distance , it is impossible to maintain it , and then we have a flashy animal , who is brought up at the end of a quarter of a mile . What is meant by the comparison to the beam is not only that it shall be strong ...
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... obtained , and readily send two or three hundred miles for it . Hence , locality has now little to do with it , and throughout Great Britain and Ireland the public greyhound is the same animal . Newmarket , which used to be the grand ...
... obtained , and readily send two or three hundred miles for it . Hence , locality has now little to do with it , and throughout Great Britain and Ireland the public greyhound is the same animal . Newmarket , which used to be the grand ...
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... obtained this from the deerhound through the southern hound , but his dwarf size renders it more probable that it is derived from the terrier , which breed , however , very probably is descended from the deerhound , as indeed I believe ...
... obtained this from the deerhound through the southern hound , but his dwarf size renders it more probable that it is derived from the terrier , which breed , however , very probably is descended from the deerhound , as indeed I believe ...
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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...