My Dog and I

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Excerpt from My Dog and I: Being a Concise Treatise of the Various Breeds of Dogs, Their Origins and Uses, Written Expressly for the Novice, Containing a Comprehensive Mode of Treatment Both in Health and Sickness, Together With the Names of Some Prominent BreedersStonehenge, Shaw, and others have at various times written exhaustive treatises on the dog, its care in health and sickness, and while there is no question but that they are invaluable to the owners of large kennels, I consider that they are too complex for the novice who owns but one or two dogs. They use very largely technical terms not thoroughly understood by the layman, while certain treatments prescribed are quite impracticable except where one has a kennel-man. Besides, I think not one of the above named writers has ever told the novice what to avoid in selecting a puppy or a grown dog, or what good points to insist upon. Rec ognizing all these facts, and recalling how I strove twenty years. Ago to find some work that would aid me in my search for know ledge Of the dog, I have concluded to write a short treatise con cerning its origin, uses, and all things pertaining to it, that will aid: the reader in learning its good points, and bad ones too, the proper scale of points that go to make up the perfect specimen, the treatment in health and sickness, and such other data as may be of value to him. Experience as a successful breeder and owner, and having won many prizes largely through condition, confirms me in the belief that I may perhaps be able to help a fancier in purchasing the proper kind of dog, or, if he already has one, to aid him in keeping it in health, to know its value, and how to properly Show it (if he is so inclined), so that its faults may be hid~ den to the greatest degree, while its good points may become more: pronounced.Perfection does not exist in either man or beast, so we will strive to select that specimen which has the fewest and least noticeable faults, remembering always that in the large breeds there are ten good little ones where there is one good large one.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.