. 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. Dogs. FOREIGN NON-SPORTING AND UTILITY BREEDS. 515 reason or provocation the old hatred of strangers will assert itself, more especially if he happens to be suddenly aroused or startled. " Bhotean's journey through India was an expensive one, as he had to have a carriage to himself. He effectually cleared the platform at all stations where we stopped, and where he was given exercise. Anyone who knows what an In
. 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. Dogs. FOREIGN NON-SPORTING AND UTILITY BREEDS. 515 reason or provocation the old hatred of strangers will assert itself, more especially if he happens to be suddenly aroused or startled. " Bhotean's journey through India was an expensive one, as he had to have a carriage to himself. He effectually cleared the platform at all stations where we stopped, and where he was given exercise. Anyone who knows what an Indian platform is like on arrival of the mail train will appreciate the good work he did amongst an excitable and voluble crowd of natives. As regards the acclimat- isation of these dogs, it is a slow process. The enormous coat they come down from Thibet in gradually dies off, and a dog, arriving in England at the beginning of a year, does not grow his new coat until the follow- ing year, during the sum- mer and autumn. He therefore takes eighteen months thoroughly to ac- climatise. " They want a great deal of exercise, and from my own experience of them in India and in this country, they will never live under the conditions to which they are com- pelled to adhere at the Zoological Gardens. " They are most com- panionable, and devoted to their own master, but are quick to resent pun- ishment, and brood over it for some time. A good scolding occasionally, with firm but kind treatment, will make them your devoted slaves, although nothing you can do will eradicate what is really the dog's nature, viz. to consider strangers as your and -his own personal enemies. He takes no notice of dogs, unless they notice him first. Women and children he pays no attention to. Any little child would be perfectly safe with ; The Pyrenean Dog.—In all lands where special dogs have formerly been kept and used for specific purposes, they have been allowed to lapse into neglect when
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