. The dog in health and in disease [microform] : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education and general management in health, and his treatment in disease. Dogs; Dogs; Chiens; Chiens. CLASSIFICATION OP DOGS. 88 pig-jawed); his neck of due size; his chest either barrel- shaped or deep and keeled according as he is intended for slow or fast work ; his shonlders clean at the joints, and long and sloping if of a fast breed; his back level, short, and strong; his loin of due length and girth, strong, and not flat; the quarters in the running dog especially strong; stifles well be
. The dog in health and in disease [microform] : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education and general management in health, and his treatment in disease. Dogs; Dogs; Chiens; Chiens. CLASSIFICATION OP DOGS. 88 pig-jawed); his neck of due size; his chest either barrel- shaped or deep and keeled according as he is intended for slow or fast work ; his shonlders clean at the joints, and long and sloping if of a fast breed; his back level, short, and strong; his loin of due length and girth, strong, and not flat; the quarters in the running dog especially strong; stifles well bent; the thighs, upper and lower, muscular; the hocks strong and well bent; bones of both front and hind legs largo; pastems strong; feet thick, hard, and well-knuckled; thf m\ of due length, and so proportioned, etc., as not to be coarse. To put the case otherwise, the typical dog must not be snipy in muzzle, throaty, straight in shoulder-blades or loaded in shoulders, slack-backed or sway-backed, weak or flat-loined, feeble in quarters, out at elbow or tied in the elbows, stand over at the knees, weak in pasterns, straight in stifle or hock, cow- hocked (turning the hocks in and very dose together), ring-tailed (curl in tail), splay-footed (foot flat and toes separating), etc. We have not alluded to coat. This should be in keep- ing with the work to which the breed is put. Except in toy dogs, more importance is attached to the color of nose, eyes, etc., than to tliat of coat, as a rule, and properly so because it is found that animals of the best strains have these well characterized. A very light-colored eye in any breed of dogs is to be avoided, as it is often associated with some pronounced psychic imperfection. Quality of coat—as hardness, softness, etc.—^is also very suggestive to the experienced as to breeding, disposition, |,fey'>i$i-A'AW.'»«iH)IWili.''illl<lilJ|iW»l,|i!ii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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