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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
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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dentity of structure maybest be studied in a comparison of theosseous system, or skeletons, of the twoanimals, which so closely resemble eachother that their transposition would noteasily be detected. The spine of the dog consists of sevenvertebras in the neck, thirteen in the back,seven in the loins, three sacral vertebrae, GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DOG. and twenty to twenty-two in the tail. Inboth the dog and the wolf there are thirteenpairs of ribs, nine true and four false. Eachhas forty-two teeth, the dental formulabeing : incisors \Zl, canines )Z), pre-molars JI J, and molars ~°. Theyboth have five front and four hind toes.Outwardly the common wolf has very The coat of the wolf varies according toclimate and latitude with respect to bothits texture and colour. In the North it islong and thick—longest on the belly andlegs, bushy on the tail, and erect on theneck and sides, whilst in the South it isshorter and rougher. The colour is generallypale yellowish grey mingled with black,
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SKELETON OF AN AMERICAN WOLF IN THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON. much the appearance of a large, bare-boneddog, and a popular description of the onewould serve for the other. His tail, whichis long, hangs over his haunches like thatof the Esquimau dog, instead of being curledupward. Distinguishing characteristics areto be found in the lank body, the length ofsnout in proportion to the head, the slopingforehead, erect ears, and oblique eyes.Great stress is laid by some naturalists uponthis obliquity of the wolfs eyes, but Dr.Kane, Lieutenant Pear), and other ex-plorers in the far North, have stated thatthey have often observed this same formof eye among the dogs of their sledge teams. lighter and often whitish grey below. Theforehead is whitish grey, the snout yellow-ish grey, always mingled with black, thelips whitish, and the cheeks yellowish,sometimes indistinctly striped. The wolfs natural voice is a loud howl,but, as already stated, when confined withdogs he will lear

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