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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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It
would
be
idle
to
expect
that
the
offspring
of
unbroken
sire
and
dam
can
be
as
easily
educated
as
a
Retriever
whose
parents
before
him
have
been
properly
trained.
Inherited
qualities
count
for
a
great
deal
in
the
adaptability
of
all
sporting
dogs,
and
the
reason
why
one
meets
with
so
many
Retrievers
that
are
incapable
or
disobedient
or
gun-shy
is
simply
that
their
preliminary
education
has
been
neglected--the
education
which
should
begin
when
the
dog
is
very
young.
In
his
earliest
youth
he
should
be
trained
to
prompt
obedience
to
a
given
word
or
a
wave
of
the
hand.
It
is
well
to
teach
him
very
early
to
enter
water,
or
he
may
be
found
wanting
when
you
require
him
to
fetch
a
bird
from
river
or
lake.
Lessons
in
retrieving
ought
to
be
a
part
of
his
daily
routine.
Equally
necessary
is
it
to
break
him
in
to
the
knowledge
that
sheep
and
lambs
are
not
game
to
be
chased,
and
that
rabbits
and
hares
are
to
be
discriminated
from
feathered
game.
Gun-shyness
is
often
supposed
to
be
hereditary;
but
it
is
not
so.
Any
puppy
can
be
cured
of
gun-shyness
in
half
a
dozen
short
lessons.
Sir
Henry
Smith's
advice
is
to
get
your
puppy
accustomed
to
the
sound
and
sight
of
a
gun
being
fired,
first
at
a
distance
and
gradually
nearer
and
nearer,
until
he
knows
that
no
harm
will
come
to
him.
Companionship
and
sympathy
between
dog
and
master
is
the
beginning
and
end
of
the
whole
business,
and
there
is
a
moral
obligation
between
them
which
ought
never
to
be
strained.
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