Breeding, training, management, diseases and c. of dogs- (1877) (14760008736)

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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thatthey should be trained rather by regular Sport-ing men, than to be spoiled by a youthfulGreenhorn. A regular Breaker is better en-abled to give him constant practice in the fieldof his future labors, than the occasional Sports-man, in whose keeping he may become addictedto bad liabits. Another thing, he should, itconvenient, be raised in the country, where hewill become more healthful, vigorous and har-dy ; that is to say, unless the owner shouldhave other means at hand of securing to himthat sanitory exercise, indispensably necessaryto Ills perfect physical and mental development.Dogs in some respects are like children. Showme a dozen genteel children raised in the city,pampered with delicacies, exercising themselvesin the nursery, carefully cloaked and india-rub-bered, on the slightest fall of the barometer,thus fattening the Doctor and Apothecary atthe expense of their delicate constitutions.Compare with them a dozen Rustics. Whowill throw a stone the farthest, climb a tree the

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ITALIAN GREYHOUND. Moilel of beauty, Byrainetry and grace,From fair Italia sprinirs thy sylplilike race ;3wcet emblem of the cliuie, that gave tiice birth,Symbol of action, sprightliness and mirtii IJjikc his famed compeer of the nobler grade,Of ditierent color, and of varied shade;^Matcliless in mould, of fawiilike form and limb ;Small silken ear. soft, light, traiispnr, nt skin,Fitted alone in genial warmth to dwell—Genteel appendage of the flaunting Belle.l-lis magic trip and quick, elastic bound.Disgrace the awkward step of meaner lioun.! ;The gay attendant of the proud and lair,To doubt bis use or merit none shall dare,ilie maidens nursling and the brides delight,Fondled by day, and feathered up at nigiit;For ruder sports, inapt his slender form,Yet quick of ear, the stealthy rogue to warn ^In courage lacking, yet his very fearWill rouse the house when thief or burglars near.Then wonder not, a pampered hound like he,So delicate, effeminate should be ;His graces charm, nor let h

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