. Dogs as home companions; a book for all dog lovers . igent. Hisvery artificiality makes him a dog Medium-Sized Dogs 57 which is difficult to rear, being sus-ceptible to various diseases to a muchgreater degree than most of the morenormal breeds. Everyone, even he who is only re-motely interested in dogs, knows theBadger Dog, if not under this name,at least under his old appellation ofdachshund, by which he was known upto the time of the World War whenhis Teutonic origin was expedientlydisguised under the name that he nowbears. Owing to his length of bodyand his abbreviated legs he has always
. Dogs as home companions; a book for all dog lovers . igent. Hisvery artificiality makes him a dog Medium-Sized Dogs 57 which is difficult to rear, being sus-ceptible to various diseases to a muchgreater degree than most of the morenormal breeds. Everyone, even he who is only re-motely interested in dogs, knows theBadger Dog, if not under this name,at least under his old appellation ofdachshund, by which he was known upto the time of the World War whenhis Teutonic origin was expedientlydisguised under the name that he nowbears. Owing to his length of bodyand his abbreviated legs he has alwaysbeen known as the original sausagedog, for his length of body is severaltimes his inches in height, whichshould be, at shoulder, only from71/0, to 8V5 inches. The weight is di-vided at bench shows, as for instance,dogs under sixteen and one-halfpounds, bitches under fifteen and one-half pounds. Middleweights fromthe maximum lightweight division totwenty-two pounds. Heavyweights,dogs and bitches over twenty-twopounds. The badger dog, while not classi-. Medium-Sized Dogs 50 lied among the terriers, has the char-acteristics of that family, for he goesto ground for his quarry, and in everyother way shows his terrier charac-teristics. On the other hand, he isalso a fairly good trailer and, like thebeagle, will hunt rabbits. As a housecompanion he is intelligent^ andcleanly; his short, satiny coat fittinghim eminently for a ladies dog. Thebreed comes in a variety of colors:black and tan, all tan, all red, yellow-ish red and spotted in various Beagle, while not to be con-sidered a house dog, is small and maybe kept very nicely in a small place,provided he is allowed to run and ex-ercise in the open every day and isgiven the opportunity to hunt hisfavorite game—rabbits— a keen-nosed dog for his ownsphere he has no equal, and havingbeen bred for years with this sole pur-pose in view, his intelligence is con-centrated along these lines and nottoward making him
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