. 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. M THE DOO IN HEALTH. li. made dogs, provided with a coat admirably adapted to re- sist wet and cold, and so fitting tliem for entering bnrrows after their qnarry and facing any weather however bleak. Tlie Skye is an especially long dog, with ea ill-defined ontline owing to length of coat. A good Skye shonld measure in length three times its height. The Scotch is also long, but not in such propo
. 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. M THE DOO IN HEALTH. li. made dogs, provided with a coat admirably adapted to re- sist wet and cold, and so fitting tliem for entering bnrrows after their qnarry and facing any weather however bleak. Tlie Skye is an especially long dog, with ea ill-defined ontline owing to length of coat. A good Skye shonld measure in length three times its height. The Scotch is also long, but not in such proportion as the Skye. Both these breeds are more cobby in build than other terriers, and are not adapted for great speed; with their power- ful limbs, however, such conformation adapts them for forcing quarry from a burrow, while their powerful jaws and teeth make their grip firm and punisliing. In weight neither breed chould exceed twenty pounds; better if a little less. Coat.—In the Scotch terrier pioper it is rather short (about two inches), very dense, and extremely hard and wiry. In t1i» Skye the hair sliould be long, straight, shining, like of a horse's tail; silkiness, wooUiuess, or curl to / be avoided, though on the top of the head it may approach silkiness. Colors.—In the Scotch, steel or iron grey, black brindle, brown brindle, gray brindle, black, sandy, and whtnten; white markings undesirable and not permissible, except a little on chest. In the Skye the colon most favored are in their order of preference—steel grey, with black tips to eara and tail; fawn, with dark-brown tips; dark slaty-blue, black, and pure fawn. The Skyes are divided into drop-eared and prick-«ared, W;;h terms in themselves express the main Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mills, We
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