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) (14740683346)

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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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h a well-known prize-winner frommy kennel. The result was satisfactorybeyond dispute, for the relative proportionsof man and dog came out exactly. I dontlook in the least like the Duke, but the H4 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. likeness between the two animals depictedis really startling. And though I am not sanguine enoughto suppose that my American critic is opento conviction, I submit that his attemptto make a terrier of a Sheepdog, by meansof measurements, is scarcely less futilethan to argue, on the same grounds, thatthe animals owner was not really a Duke ! Gainsborough, one imagines, knew his century, one finds conclusive evidence thatthe breed was very fairly representedin many parts of England, notably inSuffolk, Hampshire, and Dorsetshire, andalso in Wales. Youatt writes of it in 1845.Richardson in 1847, and Stonehenge in 1859. Their descriptions vary a little,though the leading characteristics are muchthe same, but each writer specially notes theexceptional sagacity of the breed.
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THE SHEPHERDS DOG. From The Sportsmans Cabinet (1E03). By P. AV business, and painted what he saw, and I pinmy faith to his picture of 1771 as the earliestlikeness extant of an Old English Sheepdog. A hundred and thirty-five years ago,then, our bob-tail flourished, to all outwardappearance, exactly as he does to-day.And surely, in that pregnant interval, fewbreeds have changed so little. Some thirty years later there was pub-lished, in The Sportsmans Cabinet, thereproduction of a painting by PhilipReinagle of a Shepherds Dog. This was afar less typical animal than Gainsboroughs,long-backed and bushy-tailed, apparentlvwall-eyed, and closely resembling the Hima-layan dog. Thereafter, throughout the nineteenth The dog was well known in Scotland, too,under the title of the Bearded Collie, forthere is little doubt that this last is merelya variant of the breed. He differs, in pointof fact, chiefly by reason of possessing a tail,the amputation of which is a recognisedcustom in England. With