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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... tail and hog - back , and is supposed to be descended from the native dog found by Columbus ; but , even allowing this to be the case , it is of course much intermixed with foreign breeds . The North - American dogs are very closely ...
... tail and hog - back , and is supposed to be descended from the native dog found by Columbus ; but , even allowing this to be the case , it is of course much intermixed with foreign breeds . The North - American dogs are very closely ...
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... tail over the back like the pure foxhound ; their dash in making a cast is most beautiful , and they stand all sorts of rough weather . " ( p . 314. ) He advises that the first cross only should be employed , fearing that , as in some ...
... tail over the back like the pure foxhound ; their dash in making a cast is most beautiful , and they stand all sorts of rough weather . " ( p . 314. ) He advises that the first cross only should be employed , fearing that , as in some ...
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... dog should have- " The head of a snake , The neck of the drake , A back like a beam , A side like a bream , The tail of a rat , And the foot of a cat . " Now , although the several points herein mentioned may be SMOOTH GREYHOUND . 27.
... dog should have- " The head of a snake , The neck of the drake , A back like a beam , A side like a bream , The tail of a rat , And the foot of a cat . " Now , although the several points herein mentioned may be SMOOTH GREYHOUND . 27.
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... TAIL is insisted upon , not as of absolute use in any way , but as a sign of high breeding , without which it is well known the greyhound is comparatively valueless . But it must be understood that it is only in the size of the bones ...
... TAIL is insisted upon , not as of absolute use in any way , but as a sign of high breeding , without which it is well known the greyhound is comparatively valueless . But it must be understood that it is only in the size of the bones ...
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... tail is thick , bushy , and slightly curved , but not so much so as in the Esquimaux dog . The hair is long and straight ; the ground colour being white , marked with large irregular patches of greyish black , shaded with brown . THE ...
... tail is thick , bushy , and slightly curved , but not so much so as in the Esquimaux dog . The hair is long and straight ; the ground colour being white , marked with large irregular patches of greyish black , shaded with brown . THE ...
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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...