Breeding, training, management, diseases and c. of dogs- (1877) (14596376988)

Identifier: breedingtraining00butl (find matches)
Title: Breeding, training, management, diseases & c. of dogs:
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Butler, Francis, 1810-1874. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Dog. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Brooklyn, D. S. Holmes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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the third bya sunstroke. Of course I safely and securelychained all the patients, and marked their dailyprogress. The two bitten subjects grew worseand worse, till I relieved them by a mercifuldoMtli ; the third, by my throwing cold wateron her, three or four times a day and keepingher in the cool shade, with little lighl. gradu-ally recovered, and afterwards produced sever-al litters of puppies, one of which lived justlong enough to be swallowed by an alligator onthe banks of the Mississippi. Neither of thesedogs refused to drink, but the two former hadlost all power of swallowing, for some timeprevious to my destroying them. Rabies, caus-ed by venomous bites or objects sticking in thethroat or jaws is perhaps the most incurable,as it is by no means advisable for the in-experienced to risk an operation, at an ad-vanced stage of the inflammation. I believemany cures might be effected, if the animalswere only kept safely bound in the shade andconstantly cooled with water, I mean where
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ARCTIC SLED DOG. A noted member of the frigid zone,Hardy and tough, adapted to his home,To liim the traits of horse and hound belong ;His feats the theint; of many a polar song.Of wolfish form, yet somewhat stouter groTvn,The sled dog, solo in Arctic regions known ;With stiffened car erect, keen prowling eye,Sharp pointed nose, and coat of varied dye 5His dress compounded of a woolly wire,Defying cold, disdaining sun or fire :In vigor strong, to hardship eer inured,From pampered taste and indolence secured ;Of lasting foot, with firm and nervous tread,Unwearied drags the cumbrous Lapland sled.Or lightly bounding with the travelers slcigli,With gladsome trip, makes seventy miles a day.Parry, McClintock, Belcher. Ross and Kane,With thankful lip, record his memoried name;0er Greenland snows and ice of Ballins bay,Hungry and gaunt, he led the trackless way.For ever barred the sweets of honie to taste,Triumphant sped them through the frigid waste.Oer the brave Franklin, raise one grateful