The new book of the dog - a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment (1911) (14760547121)

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Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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ders ought to be slop-ing, the arms and thighs substantial and muscular. 10. Feet.—The feet, fairly large and spreading,with firm pads and strong nails to resist sharprocks. 11. Stern.—The stern when the hound is atwork is carried gaily, like that of a rough WelshHarrier. It is thick and well covered, to serveas a rudder. 12. Coat.—The coat is wiry, hard, long andclose at the roots, impervious to water. 13. Colour.—Grey, or buff, or yellowish, orblack, or rufus red, mixed with black or grey. 14. Height.—22 to 24 inches. i6o CHAPTER XV.THE IRISH WOLFHOUND. BY FREDK GRESHAM. An eye of sloe, -with cur not low,With horses breast, with depth of chest,With breadth of loin, and curve in groin,And nape set far behind the head—Such were the dogs that Fingal bred. —Translated from the Irish. I T is now some eight and twenty yearssince an important controversy wascarried on in the columns of The LiveStack Journal on the nature and history ofthe great Irish Wolfhound. The chief dis-
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THE IRISH WOLFHOUND (1803). From The Sportsmans Cabinet. By P. Reinagle, R A. putants in the discussion were Captain G. A.Graham, of Dursley, Mr. G. W. Hickman, Mr.F. Adcock, and the Rev. M. B. Wynn, andthe main point at issue was whether the dogthen imperfectly known as the Irish Wolf- dog was a true descendant of the ancientCants grains Hibcmicns, or whether it wasa mere manufactured mongrel, owing itsorigin to an admixture of the Great Daneand the dog of the Pyrenees, modified andbrought to type by across with the HighlandDeerhound. It was notdoubted — indeed, his-tory and traditionclearly attested — thatthere had existed inearly times in Irelanda very large and ruggedhound of Greyhoundform, whose vocation itwas to hunt the wolf,the red deer, and thefox. It was assuredlyknown to the Romans,and there can be littledoubt that the hugedog Samr, which Jar)Gunnar got from theIrish king Myrkiartonin the tenth centuryand took back withhim to Norway, wasone of this breed. Butit was supp