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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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One
thing
is
certain,
that
foxes
do
not
breed
in
confinement,
except
in
very
rare
instances.
The
silver
fox
of
North
America
is
the
only
species
recorded
to
have
bred
in
the
Zoological
Gardens
of
London;
the
European
fox
has
never
been
known
to
breed
in
captivity.
Then,
again,
the
fox
is
not
a
sociable
animal.
We
never
hear
of
foxes
uniting
in
a
pack,
as
do
the
wolves,
the
jackals,
and
the
wild
dogs.
Apart
from
other
considerations,
a
fox
may
be
distinguished
from
a
dog,
without
being
seen
or
touched,
by
its
smell.
No
one
can
produce
a
dog
that
has
half
the
odour
of
Reynard,
and
this
odour
the
dog-fox
would
doubtless
possess
were
its
sire
a
fox-dog
or
its
dam
a
vixen.
Whatever
may
be
said
concerning
the
difference
existing
between
dogs
and
foxes
will
not
hold
good
in
reference
to
dogs,
wolves,
and
jackals.
The
wolf
and
the
jackal
are
so
much
alike
that
the
only
appreciable
distinction
is
that
of
size,
and
so
closely
do
they
resemble
many
dogs
in
general
appearance,
structure,
habits,
instincts,
and
mental
endowments
that
no
difficulty
presents
itself
in
regarding
them
as
being
of
one
stock.
Wolves
and
jackals
can
be,
and
have
repeatedly
been,
tamed.
Domestic
dogs
can
become,
and
again
and
again
do
become,
wild,
even
consorting
with
wolves,
interbreeding
with
them,
assuming
their
gregarious
habits,
and
changing
the
characteristic
bark
into
a
dismal
wolf-like
howl.
The
wolf
and
the
jackal
when
tamed
answer
to
their
master's
call,
wag
their
tails,
lick
his
hands,
crouch,
jump
round
him
to
be
caressed,
and
throw
themselves
on
their
backs
in
submission.
When
in
high
spirits
they
run
round
in
circles
or
in
a
figure
of
eight,
with
their
tails
between
their
legs.
Their
howl
becomes
a
business-like
bark.
They
smell
at
the
tails
of
other
dogs
and
void
their
urine
sideways,
and
lastly,
like
our
domestic
favourites,
however
refined
and
gentlemanly
in
other
respects,
they
cannot
be
broken
of
the
habit
of
rolling
on
carrion
or
on
animals
they
have
killed.
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