Modern breaking; a treatise on the rearing, breaking and handling of setters and pointers, embodying the methods employed by the most successful breakers and field trial handlers of the day .. . to leave the fleshbruised or swollen. THE WHIP. The accompanying illustration is of a whipdesigned by the writer that will be found toanswer all the purposes of the modern is light, easily rolled up and carried in thepocket, and will last for years. The flat-tapered strap that forms the lash punishes adog as severely as is necessary without leavingany unnecessary bruises or continuous
Modern breaking; a treatise on the rearing, breaking and handling of setters and pointers, embodying the methods employed by the most successful breakers and field trial handlers of the day .. . to leave the fleshbruised or swollen. THE WHIP. The accompanying illustration is of a whipdesigned by the writer that will be found toanswer all the purposes of the modern is light, easily rolled up and carried in thepocket, and will last for years. The flat-tapered strap that forms the lash punishes adog as severely as is necessary without leavingany unnecessary bruises or continuous is just the difference between punishinga dog with this kind of a whip and the ordi- THE WHIP nary dog whip that there is between the spank-ing a mother will administer with a slipperand the injury a vicious parent might inflictwith a rawhide. The whip can be made easily by any workeron leather. Take a strip of rawhide thirty-two inches long and two and one-quarterinches wide for six inches, and then taper itdown to three-sixteenths of an inch. The sixinches is to form the handle and should havethe edges brought together and sewed; a snapor ring can be attached to the handle if con-. CHAMPION LADYS COUNT GLADSTONE Modern Breaking 51 sidered desirable. The edges of the lashshould be carefully smoothed and rounded. Ifa snap is sewed into the end of the handleof the whip, a ring can then be- sewed intothe hunting coat, either upon the inside or theoutside, so that the whip when not in use canbe snapped to it. If a ring is used the snapwill, of course, be attached to the coat. Thebreaker who once uses a whip of this kindwill never go back to one of the old-fashionedEnglish affairs. The amateur must bear inmind that it is not always the amount of pun-ishment a dog receives that does him the mostgood. I\Iuch depends upon the way it is ad-ministered. The breeder who gets excited andangry and scolds the dog while he uses thewhip frightens the dog so that he has no chanceto know wh
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