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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.Innumerable are the accounts of Newfound-lands having proved their devotion to theirowners, and of the many lives saved bythem in river and sea ; and when Sir EdwinLandseer selected one of the breed as the THE NEWFOUNDLAND. 75 subject of his picture entitled, A Distin-guished Member of the Humane Society,he was justified not only by the sentimentattaching to this remarkable race of dogs,but also by the deeds by which Newfound-lands have made good their claim to suchgreat distinction, and the popular recog-nition of this, no doubt, in some degreeadded to the great esteem in which thispainting has always been held. Newfoundland character are passing away—it is to be hoped for good. The breed israpidly returning to the type which Land-seers picture represents—a dog of greatbeauty, dignity, and benevolence ofcharacter, showing in its eyes an almosthuman pathos. Going back six years before the picture,Mr. J. McGregor, in 1832, in his history ofBritish North America, wrote as follows :
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A DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF THE HUMANE SOCIETYFrom the Painting by SIR EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A., in the National i The picture was painted in 1838, and, as al-most everyone knows, represents a white andblack Newfoundland. The dog portrayedwas typical of the breed, and now, after alapse of nearly seventy years, the paintinghas the added value of enabling us to makea comparison with specimens of the breedas it exists to-day. Such a comparisonwill show that among the best dogs nowliving are some which might have been themodel for this picture. It is true, I think,that in the interval the white and blackNewfoundlands have been coarser, heavier,higher on the legs, with an expressiondenoting excitability quite foreign to thetrue breed, but these departures from The Newfoundland dog is a celebratedand useful animal well known. Thesedogs are remarkably docile and obedientto their masters ; they are very serviceablein all the fishing plantations, and are yokedin pairs and used to haul the winter fue

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