Dogs and All About Them

by Robert Leighton

Overview

Book Excerpt: disparity is no greater than that betweenthe Shire horse and the Shetland pony, the Shorthorn and the Kerrycattle, or the Patagonian and the Pygmy; and all dog breeders knowhow easy it is to produce a variety in type and size by studiedselection.In order properly to understand this question it is necessary firstto consider the identity of structure in the wolf and the dog. Thisidentity of structure may best be studied in a comparison of theosseous system, or skeletons, of the two animals, which so closelyresemble each other that their transposition would not easily bedetected.The spine of the dog consists of seven vertebrae in the neck, thirteenin the back, seven in the loins, three sacral vertebrae, and twentyto twenty-two in the tail. In both the dog and the wolf there arethirteen pairs of ribs, nine true and four false. Each has forty-twoteeth. They both have five front and four hind toes, while outwardlythe common wolf has so much the appearance of a large, bare-boneddog, that a popRead More

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781664636
Publisher:	Andrews UK
Publication date:	06/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	773 KB

Table of Contents

General History of the Dog 2. The English Mastiff 3. The Bulldog 4. The St. Bernard 5. The Newfoundland 6. The Great Dane 7. The Dalmatian 8. The Collie 9. The Old English Sheepdog 10. The Chow Chow 11. The Poodle 12. The Schipperke 13. The Bloodhound 14. The Otterhound 15. The Irish Wolfhound 16. The Deerhound 17. The Borzoi, or Russian Wolfhound 18. The Greyhound 19. The Whippet 20. The Foxhound 21. The Harrier and the Beagle 22. The Pointer 23. The Setters 24. The Retrievers 25. The Sporting Spaniel 26. The Basset-Hound 27. The Dachshund 28. The Old Working Terrier 29. The White English Terrier 30. The Black and Tan Terrier 31. The Bull-Terrier 32. The Smooth Fox-Terrier 33. The Wire-Hair Fox-Terrier 34. The Airedale Terrier 35. The Bedlington Terrier 36. The Irish Terrier 37. The Welsh Terrier 38. The Scottish Terrier 39. The West Highland White Terrier 40. The Dandie Dinmont 41. The Skye and Clydesdale Terriers 42. The Yorkshire Terrier 43. The Pomeranian 44. The King Charles Spaniels 45. The Pekinese and Japanese 46. The Maltese Dog and the Pug 47. The Brussels Griffon 48. The Miniature Breeds 49. Practical Management 50. Breeding and Whelping 51. Some Common Ailments of the Dog and their Treatment 52. The Dog and the Law