. 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. 521 coarser than the elegant Deutsche Dogge of to-day. The bristly game was hunted in a more manly fashion than is now- usual. He was bayed by light, active dogs, frequently a cross between the sheep- dog and the Spitz (Saufiinder), and then attacked, covered, and held by powerful, heavy dogs (Hatzriiden), to be ultimately given the coup de grace with the Saufeder, or b
. 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. 521 coarser than the elegant Deutsche Dogge of to-day. The bristly game was hunted in a more manly fashion than is now- usual. He was bayed by light, active dogs, frequently a cross between the sheep- dog and the Spitz (Saufiinder), and then attacked, covered, and held by powerful, heavy dogs (Hatzriiden), to be ultimately given the coup de grace with the Saufeder, or boarspear. The hound needed to be very powerful to attack an animal able to cleave his way unscarred through the thickest brushwood, and the fine coat and skin of our modern Great Dane was not sought for in the old Hatzrude; but with the advent of firearms and of the more comfortable methods of pursuing the grim Eber or his scarcely less dangerous consort the Bache, the original breed of heavy Hatzriiden disappeared, although his loose dewlap and coarse, hard coat recurred with persistency in some of the early strains of the Dane. Of existing breeds the one bearing the closest resemblance to the original German Boarhound is not the Great Dane, which should not be called a Boarhound at all, but the Rottweil Dog, usually called the Rottweiler Metzgerhund, or butcher's dog of the town of Rottweil in South Ger- many, in which district it is, or was, largely used by the knights of the cleaver for driving cattle. It is a strong, powerfully built breed, not so tall or so graceful as the Great Dane. Its height averages 23 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 Leighton, Robert, 1859-. London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Limited
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