The dogs of Great Britain, The dogs of Great Britain, America, and [other] countries : their breeding, training, and management in health and disease,comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog dogsofgreatbrita00wals Year: 1914 ROUGH SCOTCH GKEYllOUXD AND DEERHOUIfD. 35 are fawn, red, brindled (either red and black mixed, or fawn and blue), grey, and black. The coat is harsh, long, and rough, espec- ially about the jaws, where the hair stands out like that of a Scotch terrier. In speed they are about equal to the smooth grey- hound, but they do not appear to be qu
The dogs of Great Britain, The dogs of Great Britain, America, and [other] countries : their breeding, training, and management in health and disease,comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog dogsofgreatbrita00wals Year: 1914 ROUGH SCOTCH GKEYllOUXD AND DEERHOUIfD. 35 are fawn, red, brindled (either red and black mixed, or fawn and blue), grey, and black. The coat is harsh, long, and rough, espec- ially about the jaws, where the hair stands out like that of a Scotch terrier. In speed they are about equal to the smooth grey- hound, but they do not appear to be quite so stout, though of late we have had no opportunities of judging, as a rough greyhound in public is rare in the extreme. Mr. A. Graham, who formerly was celebrated for his breed of these dogs, has now abandoned their use, excepting when largely crossed with the smooth grey- hound, for which purpose they seem well suited, when the former are too small or too delicate for the work they have to do. But as these are now bred of a much more hardy kind than formerly, so that they will stand cold and wet almost as well as the Scotch dog, there is little necessity for resorting to the cross, and it is ac- cordingly abandoned by almost all the breeders of the animal. Nevertheless, some of the best dogs of the present day have a strain of the rough dog in them, but it is gradually dying out as compared with ten or twenty years ago. It is alleged, and I fancy with some truth, that the rough dog runs cunning sooner than the smooth, and hence the cross is objected to; and certainly many litters of greyhounds bred in this way within the last few years have been remarkable for this objectionable vice. The points, or desirable external characteristic's of this breed, with the exception of the rough coat, are so similar to those of the smooth greyhound, that the two may be considered together.
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