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Sporting Dogs: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease — John Shaqi

Sporting Dogs: Their Points and Management in Health and DiseaseBarton, Frank Townend

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Sporting Dogs: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease

Name: Sporting Dogs: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease
Author: Barton, Frank Townend

Barton, Frank Townend

Dogs

_In conclusion, the Author wishes to express most hearty thanks to
all Breeders and Exhibitors who have so generously supplied him with
Photographs: to_ Our Dogs Gazette; The Kennel Gazette; The Gamekeeper,
_etc._

                               CONTENTS

  SECTION A
                                                                  PAGE
  CHAPTER I                                                          3

  =The Pointer=

  Head--Colour--Eyes--Back--Hind-quarters--Faults--Value
  of Points.

  CHAPTER II                                                        18

  =The English Setter=

  Laverack Setters--Coat--Colour--Skull--Ears--Eyes--Neck
    --Back-quarters--Tail--Fore-limbs--Weight--Faults.

  =The Irish Setter=

  Coat--Ears--Eyes--Neck--Forelegs--Loins.

  =The Black=and=Tan Setter=
  (Gordon Setter)

  Eyes--Ears--Head--Neck--Shoulders and Chest--Fore-limbs--Feet
    --Back--Loins--Stern--Value of Points.

  CHAPTER III                                                       32

  =International Gundog League=

  POINTER AND SETTER SOCIETY

  Rules--Rules for the Trial Meetings.

  CHAPTER IV                                                        42

  =Retrievers=

  FLAT-COATED: Coat--Head--Ears--Eyes--Chest--Neck--Back--
  Loins--Limbs--Faults.
  CURLY-COATED.

  =Labradors=

  RULES OF THE RETRIEVER SOCIETY

  CHAPTER V                                                         66

  =Spaniels=

  General Characteristics of the different Varieties--Temperament
    --Coat--Colour--Head--Ears--Fore-limbs--Body.

  =The Clumber=

  Weight--Head--Ears--Eyes--Coat--Neck--Club.

  =The Sussex Spaniel=

  Colour--Coat--Weight--Head--Eyes--Ears--Nose--Neck--Shoulders and
    Chest--Fore-limbs--Faults.

  =Field Spaniels=

  =The Cocker Spaniel=

  Head--Ears--Coat--Colour--Club Prices--Faults.

  The Irish Water Spaniel

  Colour--Nose--Skull--Ears--Neck--Coat--Height--General
    Appearances--Faults--Weight--Club.

  =The English Water Spaniel=

  CHAPTER VI                                                        94

  =International Gundog League=

  Rules--Regulations (subject to alteration).

  CHAPTER VII                                                      102

  =Training Spaniels=

  SECTION B

  HOUNDS

  CHAPTER VIII                                                     113

  =The Foxhound=

  Packs of Foxhounds.

  =Harriers=

  Loins--Back--Ribs--Chest--Fore-limbs--Coat.

  =The Otterhound=

  Colour--Height--Eyes--Ears--Skull--Neck.

  =The Deerhound=

  Head--Ears--Neck--Shoulders--Stern--Eyes--Body--Legs--Feet
    --Coat--Colour--Height--Weight--Points required.

  SECTION C

  HOUNDS

  CHAPTER IX                                                       141

  =The Bloodhound=

  Head--Eyes--Legs--Feet--Chest--Shoulder--Neck--Ribs--Back
    --Loins--Hind-quarters--Limbs--Tail--Coat--Colour--Height
    --Club--Association of Bloodhound Breeders.

  =Irish Wolfhounds=

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