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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Toy
Bull-terriers
ought
to
have
an
alert,
gay
appearance,
coupled
with
refinement,
which
requires
a
nice
whip
tail.
The
best
colour
is
pure
white.
A
brindle
spot
is
not
amiss,
and
even
a
brindle
dog
is
admissible,
but
black
marks
are
wrong.
The
coat
ought
to
be
close
and
stiff
to
the
touch.
Toy
Bull-terriers
are
not
delicate
as
a
rule.
They
require
warmth
and
plenty
of
exercise
in
all
weathers.
The
most
elegant,
graceful,
and
refined
of
all
dogs
are
the
tiny
Italian
Greyhounds.
Their
exquisitely
delicate
lines,
their
supple
movements
and
beautiful
attitudes,
their
soft
large
eyes,
their
charming
colouring,
their
gentle
and
loving
nature,
and
their
scrupulous
cleanliness
of
habit--all
these
qualities
justify
the
admiration
bestowed
upon
them
as
drawing-room
pets.
They
are
fragile,
it
is
true--fragile
as
eggshell
china--not
to
be
handled
roughly.
But
their
constitution
is
not
necessarily
delicate,
and
many
have
been
known
to
live
to
extreme
old
age.
Miss
Mackenzie's
Jack,
one
of
the
most
beautiful
of
the
breed
ever
known,
lived
to
see
his
seventeenth
birthday,
and
even
then
was
strong
and
healthy.
Their
fragility
is
more
apparent
than
real,
and
if
they
are
not
exposed
to
cold
or
damp,
they
require
less
pampering
than
they
usually
receive.
This
cause
has
been
a
frequent
source
of
constitutional
weakness,
and
it
was
deplorably
a
fault
in
the
Italian
Greyhounds
of
half
a
century
ago.
One
cannot
be
quite
certain
as
to
the
derivation
of
the
Italian
Greyhound.
Its
physical
appearance
naturally
suggests
a
descent
from
the
Gazehound
of
the
ancients,
with
the
added
conjecture
that
it
was
purposely
dwarfed
for
the
convenience
of
being
nursed
in
the
lap.
Greek
art
presents
many
examples
of
a
very
small
dog
of
Greyhound
type,
and
there
is
a
probability
that
the
diminutive
breed
was
a
familiar
ornament
in
the
atrium
of
most
Roman
villas.
In
Pompeii
a
dwarfed
Greyhound
was
certainly
kept
as
a
domestic
pet,
and
there
is
therefore
some
justification
for
the
belief
that
the
Italian
prefix
is
not
misplaced.
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