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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companion. His qualities of mindand his acute powers of reasoning are indeedso great that there is something almosthuman in his attractiveness and his devotion.His aptitude in learning is never denied,and many are the stories told of his mar-vellous talent and versatility. Not merely as a showmans dog hashe distinguished himself. He is something THE POODLE. 129 more than a mountebank of the booths,trained to walk the tight rope and standon his head. He is an adept at performingtricks, but it is his alertness of brain thatplaces him apart from other animals. Thereis the example of the famous Munito, whoin 1818 perplexed the Parisians by his clever-ness with playing cards and his intricate to the Customs officers. On the ContinentPoodles of the larger kind are often usedfor draught work. There can be little doubt that the breedoriginated in Germany, where it is knownas the Pudcl, and classed as the Camsfamiliaris Aquaticus. In form and coat hewould seem to be closely related to the old
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GROUP OF MRS. L. W. CROUCHS POODLES, ORCHARD TOMMY TUCKER, ORCHARD SALLY, CH. LENFANT PRODIGUE,CH. ORCHARD ADMIRAL. AND LADY GODIVA. Photograph by T. Fall. arithmetical calculations. Paris was for-merly the home of most of the learnedPoodles, and one remembers the instance ofthe Poodle of the Pont Neuf, who had thehabit of dirtying the boots of the passers-byin order that his master—a shoeblackstationed half-way across the bridge—mightenjoy the profit of cleaning them. In Bel-gium Poodles were systematically trainedto smuggle valuable lace, which was woundround their shaven bodies and coveredwith a false skin. These dogs were schooledto a dislike of all men in uniform, and conse-quently on their journey between Mechlinand the coast they always gave a wide berth Water-dog, and the resemblance between abrown Poodle and an Irish Water Spanielis remarkable. The Poodle is no longerregarded as a sporting dog, but at one periodlie was trained to retrieve waterfowl, and hestill on occasio

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