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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... shows the bony limbs , great strength and height , as well as the length of ear and heaviness of head so re- markable in them . Markham , who lived three hundred years ago , in comparing the two kinds of hound , describes the northern ...
... shows the bony limbs , great strength and height , as well as the length of ear and heaviness of head so re- markable in them . Markham , who lived three hundred years ago , in comparing the two kinds of hound , describes the northern ...
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... show- ing a tendency to cast back . Sir W. Scott , I believe , prefer- red the small ear . The above description is taken from dogs bred from " Meadow , " + by Dr. Brown's celebrated dog " John Both from photographs . That of " Puck ...
... show- ing a tendency to cast back . Sir W. Scott , I believe , prefer- red the small ear . The above description is taken from dogs bred from " Meadow , " + by Dr. Brown's celebrated dog " John Both from photographs . That of " Puck ...
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... show their courage till nearly two years old , and then nothing can beat them ; this apparent softness arising , as I suspect , from kindness of heart . The mustard - coloured bitch from which the above sketch was taken belongs to the ...
... show their courage till nearly two years old , and then nothing can beat them ; this apparent softness arising , as I suspect , from kindness of heart . The mustard - coloured bitch from which the above sketch was taken belongs to the ...
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... shows have been the most numerous and gener- ally interesting . GEARL . The points are as follows : Head flat , and narrow between the eyes , but wider between the ears , -these are set rather back but lie close to the cheek , and are ...
... shows have been the most numerous and gener- ally interesting . GEARL . The points are as follows : Head flat , and narrow between the eyes , but wider between the ears , -these are set rather back but lie close to the cheek , and are ...
Página 93
... shows a cross with the hound or some other dog . The shoulders are points of great importance in the pointer , as unless they are well - formed he cannot last throughout the day , and , moreover , he can neither stop himself nor turn ...
... shows a cross with the hound or some other dog . The shoulders are points of great importance in the pointer , as unless they are well - formed he cannot last throughout the day , and , moreover , he can neither stop himself nor turn ...
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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...