. 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 . base of thehair, although, inthe Elkhound, forexample, it islight at the baseand dark at thepoints. Dog. — Short, stout,and thick, bluntclaws directeddownward in thefront feet. Dog. — Somewhatflattened, neverreaching theground and ter-minating in apoint. Wild Animals in Captivity (i{ GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DOG. One thing is certain, that foxes do notbreed in confinement, except in very rareinstances. The silver fo
. 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 . base of thehair, although, inthe Elkhound, forexample, it islight at the baseand dark at thepoints. Dog. — Short, stout,and thick, bluntclaws directeddownward in thefront feet. Dog. — Somewhatflattened, neverreaching theground and ter-minating in apoint. Wild Animals in Captivity (i{ GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DOG. One thing is certain, that foxes do notbreed in confinement, except in very rareinstances. The silver fox of North Americais the only species recorded to have bredin the Zoological Gardens of London ; theEuropean fox has never been known tobreed in captivity. Then, again, the foxis not a sociable animal. We never hear of general appearance, structure, habits, in-stincts, and mental endowments that nodifficulty presents itself in regarding themas being of one stock. There is, indeed,no definition framable which will includeall the varieties of the domestic dog andexclude all the wild species—none evenwhich will include all the dogs properly 1 HflH # v| /■v d \ v-~ M m^B. SKULL OF A RETRIEVER. SKULL OF AN AMERICAN WOLF. foxes uniting in a pack, as do the wolves,the jackals, and the wild dogs. Apart fromother considerations, as Bartlett pointedout, a fox may be distinguished from a dog,without being seen or touched, by its one can produce a dog that has half theodour of Reynard, and this odour the dog-fox would doubtless possess were its sirea fox-dog or its dam a vixen. III.—Relationship with the Wolf and theJackal.—Whatever may be said concerningthe difference existing between dogs andfoxes will not hold good in reference todogs, wolves, and jackals. The wolf andthe jackal are so much alike that the onlyappreciable distinction is that of size, andso closely do they resemble many dogs in so called, both wild and tame, and at thesame time exclude the wolf and th
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