Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ully shot is easily rendered valuelessby being mumbled and mauled by powerfuljaws not schooled to gentleness. And thisquestion of a tender mouth was certainlyone of the problems that perturbed theminds of the originators of the breed. Thedifficulty was overcome by a process ofselection, and by the exclusion from breedingoperations of all hard-mouthed specimens,with the happy effect that in the presenttime it is exceptional to find a workingRetriever who does not know how to bringhis bird to hand without injuring it. Abetter knowledge of what is expected of 2=)6 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. him distinguishes our modern Retriever.He knows his duty, and is intensely eagerto perform it, but he no longer rushes offunbidden at the firing of the gun. Hehas learned to remain at heel until he isordered by word or gesture from his master,upon whom he relies as his friend anddirector, and who to him is instead of agod. It would be idle to expect that the off-spring of unbroken sire and dam can be as
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MR H. REGINALD COOKES CH. WORSLEY BESS. MAUD EARL easily educated as a Retriever whose parentsbefore him have been properly trained. In-herited qualities count for a great deal inthe adaptability of all sporting dogs, andthe reason why one meets with so manyRetrievers that are incapable or disobedientor gun-shy is simply that their preliminaryeducation has been neglected — the edu-cation which should begin when the dog isvery young. In his earliest youth he should be trainedto prompt obedience to a given word or awave of the hand. It is well to teach him very early to enter water, or he maybe found wanting when you require himto fetch a bird from river or lake. Lessonsin retrieving ought to be a part of his dailyroutine. Equally necessary is it to breakhim in to the knowledge that sheep andlambs are not game to be chased, and thatrabbits and hares are to be discriminatedfrom feathered game. Mr. Blagg trains hisRetrievers to steadiness with fur byschooling them to harmless companions

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