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 (1907) (20550466390)

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
Identifier: cu31924001170848 (find matches)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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522 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. of Belgium are especially notable. Those â¢of the town of Ghent, indeed, are famous throughout the world, and specimens exhi- biting particular skill in the detection and tracking of evil-doers have been exported to countries so far away as China and Japan. The most intelligent of the Ghent police dogs have usually been of Collie type. They are svstematically schooled in the pursuit of their man whom they will follow o^â¢er high walls, through intricate alleys, across have been saved, and the riverside has been rendered more safe for respectable pedestrians in the hours of darkness. The dogs, which are mostly of Retriever, cross-bred New- foundland and Leonberg type, are kept in special quarters in the police station on the Quai de la Tournelle, and are told off for duty in the daytime as well as at night. Travellers on the Continent may often notice the dogs kept at the various octroi cabins on the frontiers. These are used to
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DOGS OF THE RIVER BRIGADE, PARIS â country, and e\-en into water until they catch him, seize him, and hold him. They perform regular ser\-ice, and are sent on their beat \\'ith policemen from ten o'clock at night until dawn. \\'ith a number of Belgian Colhes intro- duced to form the nucleus of a working team manj^ of the American cities ha\-e lately acquired the services of dogs as an assistance to the police, not only m the tracking of criminals but also in the work of iinding lost children and missing propert)^ and in giving the alarm on the outbreak of a lire. In much the same way the cJiw::s ploiigf.irs, or swimming dogs, attached to the river police, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, are trained. In addition to tracking down malefactors infesting the ri\-er banks, these dogs are taught to rescue persons who ha\-e accidentally fallen or intentionally thrown themselves into the water from bridge or quay. Since the inauguration of these useful teams in 1900, a considerable number of lives assist in the detection and pursuit of smugglers, at which work they are remark- ably clever ; but there is an even more active and cunning class of dog employed by the contrabandists themsel\-es, who train them to e\-ade the \-igilant du-uanicy and his canine assistants, and to carry consignments of ihicit goods across the frontiers at night and in stormy weather, the loads of silk, lace, tobacco, spirits, or other taxable com- modities being packed m small compass about their bodies and co\-ered with a false coat. The method of training these smug- gling d(jgs IS that of implanting in their minds a rooted fear of all men in uniform, and they are taught to make their journey by unfrequented jxiths ; consequently they steer clear of the uniformed guards at the frontier stations, and make their way to their destination by secret routes which are frequently changed. The police dogs are seldom a match for these cunning four-footed contrabandists.

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