Some Sporting Dogs - With Plates by G. Vernon Stokes

By Frank Townend Barton

Highly recommended or those with a practical interest in hunting and hunting dogs, "Some Sporting Dogs" is a profusely-illustrated handbook on dogs as used for sport, with chapters on selection and breeding, general management, types of sporting dogs, training, and much more. This volume will be of considerable utility to modern hunters and breeders, and it is not to be missed by collectors of vintage sporting literature. Contents include: "General Management of Sporting Dogs", "Flesh as Food for Sporting Dogs", "Trespass of Dogs", "The Foxhound", "The Otterhound", "The Bloodhound", "The Harrier", "The Greyhound", "The Basset Hound", "The Beagle", "The Setter", "The Labrador Retriever, "The Spaniels: The Clumber. The Field. The Cocker", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with the original artwork and text.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Country Books
• Release date: Oct 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781473343368

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SOME SPORTING DOGS

THE FOXHOUND.

SOME

SPORTING DOGS

BY

FRANK TOWNEND BARTON, M.R.C.V.S.

PLATES BY

G. VERNON STOKES

THE success accorded to the two preceding volumes, My Book of Little Dogs and My Book of Favourite Dogs, has encouraged the Author and Artist to prepare this third volume, Some Sporting Dogs. It is hoped that this will be found equal at least to its predecessors, if it does not surpass them, and so justify equal confidence and support from the dog-loving public.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF SPORTING DOGS

CHAPTER II

FLESH AS FOOD FOR SPORTING DOGS

CHAPTER III

TRESPASS OF DOGS

CHAPTER IV

THE FOXHOUND

CHAPTER V

THE OTTERHOUND

CHAPTER VI

THE BLOODHOUND

CHAPTER VII

THE HARRIER

CHAPTER VIII

THE GREYHOUND

CHAPTER IX

THE BASSET HOUND

CHAPTER X

THE BEAGLE

CHAPTER XI

THE SETTER

CHAPTER XII

THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER

CHAPTER XIII

THE SPANIELS: THE CLUMBER. THE FIELD. THE COCKER

CHAPTER XIV

THE SEALYHAM TERRIER

LIST OF PLATES

THE FOXHOUND

THE OTTERHOUND

THE BLOODHOUND

THE HARRIER

THE GREYHOUND

THE BASSET HOUND

THE BEAGLE

THE SETTER

THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER

CLUMBER AND FIELD SPANIELS

THE COCKER SPANIEL

THE SEALYHAM TERRIER

GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF SPORTING DOGS

CHAPTER I

GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF SPORTING DOGS

UNDER the above heading the author will merely indicate the outlines to guide those who take an interest in these dogs. When more than one or two dogs are kept, outdoor accommodation will have to be provided, and in doing this the owner should endeavour to provide such shelter as will protect against wind and wet.

Damp kennels are very bad for dogs, and will assuredly bring on rheumatism, and once that trouble is established, it is extremely difficult to banish. Well-made portable kennels are now so very reasonable in price, that it is most economical to purchase such. Cheap kennels can be made out of disused paraffin barrels, provided that these are properly cleaned, and then tarred on the outside, so as to render them rain-proof for the occupant. Dogs are kept in all sorts and conditions of out-houses, some owners imagining that any sort of a place is good enough for a dog, whereas others think nothing too good. We believe in the happy medium, excess, either way, not being conducive to the animal’s health. Sometimes a stable can be improvised into a kennel, but dogs should not be allowed to lie on the floor. A damp floor is particularly bad for dogs, especially puppies. Both the sleeping house and the run should have a cemented floor, with a bench in the former.

If dogs are properly housed they will thrive much better than those which are indifferently treated in this respect. In summer the kennel floor should be washed down daily, and the interior of the kennel exposed to light and air. Sunlight and wind are the best purifiers. Boiling water has nothing to equal it for cleansing a kennel, and destroys disease-producing germs and their spores almost better than anything else. A solution of permanganate of potash makes a first class deodorant, and is much superior to many of the pungent disinfectants upon the market. Where there is an outbreak of distemper, mange, etc., the kennels and the appliances should be thoroughly disinfected. If those who go in for dog breeding would only exercise more circumspection when handling