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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Another
method
is
to
advance
across
the
open
country
at
intervals
of
about
two
hundred
yards,
slipping
the
dogs
at
any
game
they
may
put
up.
Trials
are
also
held
in
Russia.
These
take
place
in
a
large
railed
enclosure,
the
wolves
being
brought
in
carts
similar
to
our
deer
carts.
In
this
case
a
brace
of
dogs
is
loosed
on
the
wolf.
The
whole
merit
of
the
course
is
when
the
hounds
can
overtake
the
wolf
and
pin
him
to
the
ground,
so
that
the
keepers
can
secure
him
alive.
It
follows,
therefore,
that
in
this
case
also
the
hounds
must
be
of
equal
speed,
so
that
they
reach
the
wolf
simultaneously;
one
dog
would,
of
course,
be
unable
to
hold
him.
Naturally,
the
dogs
have
to
be
trained
to
the
work,
for
which
purpose
the
best
wolves
are
taken
alive
and
sent
to
the
kennels,
where
the
young
dogs
are
taught
to
pin
him
in
such
a
manner
that
he
cannot
turn
and
use
his
teeth.
There
seems
to
be
no
reason
why
the
Borzoi
should
not
be
used
for
coursing
in
this
country.
One
of
the
first
examples
of
the
breed
exhibited
in
England
was
owned
by
Messrs.
Hill
and
Ashton,
of
Sheffield,
about
1880,
at
which
time
good
specimens
were
imported
by
the
Rev.
J.
C.
Macdona
and
Lady
Emily
Peel,
whose
Sandringham
and
Czar
excited
general
admiration.
It
was
then
known
as
the
Siberian
Wolfhound.
Some
years
later
the
Duchess
of
Newcastle
obtained
several
fine
dogs,
and
from
this
stock
Her
Grace
founded
the
kennel
which
has
since
become
so
famous.
Later
still,
Queen
Alexandra
received
from
the
Czar
a
gift
of
a
leash
of
these
stately
hounds,
one
of
them
being
Alex,
who
quickly
achieved
honours
as
a
champion.
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