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Title: 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
Identifier: cu31924001170848 (find matches)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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540 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. active and remarkably intelligent. The dentition is abnormal and imperfect ; a fact which reminds one of Darwin's state-
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usually extremely delicate. It easily blis- ters in summer if exposed to the sun, and therefore requires to be smeared with grease. It is soft to the touch. The colours vary from black to slate colour or blue. In some specimens it is shrimp pink with black, blue, or chocolate spots, m others blue and tan, or mottled brown. Some are absolutely hairless, but for a crest between the ears, coming down as far as the stop, and a tuft at the tip of the tail of fine silky hair or bristles. Those with a tail tuft are believed invariably to have also the crest. Occasionally hairs or bristles are found between the toes. The small, cloddy dogs usuahy show bristly toes. A pink specimen,described by a correspondent, had a silky crest of silvery hair eight inches long, faUmg over the neck. This dog had a very bushy tail tuft. The colour of the hair m the dark dogs usually corresponds with the colour of the bald skm. But at times the pink or mottled dogs have silvery or brown crests. One of the prettiest of the hairless dogs seen in recent years was a MEXICAN HAIRLESS DOG. MR. H. C. BROOKES PADEREWSKI JUNIOR. ment that in most ani- mals the teeth or horns have some relation to the growth or absence of hair, and that bald mammals seldom ha\-e large horns or tusks, while the long coated animals, such as the Highland cattle, the wild boars, and the hair)' mammoth elephant, are remarkable for the length of their horns or tusks. A dry climate may have had some effect in producing dogs without hair. The skin of the hairless dogs is

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