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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... resembles the bloodhound , but has a lighter cross , probably with the greyhound , and therefore somewhat approaches to the modern lurcher in formation of body , with the head of a southern hound . I believe there were till very lately ...
... resembles the bloodhound , but has a lighter cross , probably with the greyhound , and therefore somewhat approaches to the modern lurcher in formation of body , with the head of a southern hound . I believe there were till very lately ...
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... a good many gentlemen 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 .
... a good many gentlemen 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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... resembles the southern hound , but is much more compact and elegant in shape , and far less throaty in proportion to its size , though still possessing a considerable ruff . There are three or four varieties , however , which differ a ...
... resembles the southern hound , but is much more compact and elegant in shape , and far less throaty in proportion to its size , though still possessing a considerable ruff . There are three or four varieties , however , which differ a ...
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... resembles in all but size . His origin is , however , lost in ob- scurity , and can only be conjectured . One chief reason why I have supposed him to arise from the above cross is , that he has lost in great measure the beagle tongue ...
... resembles in all but size . His origin is , however , lost in ob- scurity , and can only be conjectured . One chief reason why I have supposed him to arise from the above cross is , that he has lost in great measure the beagle tongue ...
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... resembles the southern hound so much as this , the difference being only in the rough wiry coat , which has been obtained by careful breeding , to enable them to resist the ill effects of the rough weather which the breed have to ...
... resembles the southern hound so much as this , the difference being only in the rough wiry coat , which has been obtained by careful breeding , to enable them to resist the ill effects of the rough weather which the breed have to ...
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