Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities
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Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities - L. C. R. Cameron
I: SPORTS DEPENDING CHIEFLY ON DOGS
PRELIMINARY NOTES
THE most important question for the boy who intends going in for one of the minor sports enlisted under this heading is: What sort of dog shall I own? especially if he can afford to keep but one. The list of suitable dogs is not a long one. It comprises terriers of various sorts, beagles, spaniels, whippets, and cross-bred dogs between any two of these breeds. The cross-bred dog is not a mongrel
: it is only when one cross-bred dog interbreeds with another that the mongrel appears, if the two parents represent three or four breeds between them. The breeding of mongrels should not be permitted; but a cross-bred dog is often a very clever, intelligent animal, and one that will prove a most serviceable companion for the one-dog minor sportsman.
Such dogs are often to be purchased as puppies for a few shillings, even to-day; and no one can hope to get the best out of a dog unless he acquires him when a puppy. Like women, dogs are very faithful to their first loves, and their first master’s whistle will usually recall them even after many years. Like women, too, it is often only after they have changed hands several times that they settle down to the real lasting affection of their lives and discover who their true masters are, those whom they can absolutely trust and in whose companionship they can be really happy. So that a dog should be caught young, or else bought after it has passed through several changes of ownership. In either case they should not prove very expensive to buy or to keep.
According to the sport for which it is required, so must the dog be selected. If badger-hunting be the sport, a bull-terrier, or a cross-bred dog having bull-terrier blood on one side, should be chosen. Such a dog is, however, of very little use for other sports, while most dogs will hunt a badger; and in any case this is not a very important minor sport, as it is not everywhere that badgers are found, nor are all boys allowed out at night to hunt them. If intended to hunt the stoat, beagles will be necessary or a beagle-terrier cross-bred. Highland terriers (now called Cairn terriers and rapidly losing their sporting character under the deteriorating influence of the show-bench) are also good at stoat-hunting, and excellent for catching water-voles and moor-hens. A fox-terrier-spaniel cross-bred is also good for the latter bird, as for rabbiting and finding hedgehogs, and the spaniel, of course, is good for all shooting purposes. For wild rabbit-coursing and dog-racing the whippet and terrier-and-whippet cross-bred are indicated. Fox-terriers—the doubtful sort—are good for hunting most things, and share with the Highland terrier a fondness for killing rats that is ineradicable.
WHITE WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER.
COCKER SPANIEL.
[Face p. 12.
FOX TERRIER.