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SPORTING DOGS


[Illustration: _Photo by T. Fall, Baker St._]      [_Frontispiece._
HEAD OF BLOODHOUND CHAMPION SULTAN.]


SPORTING DOGS

Their Points: and Management; in Health, and Disease

by

FRANK TOWNEND BARTON
M.R.C.V.S.

Veterinary Surgeon to the Gamekeepers' Kennel Association
Veterinary Adviser to the "Gamekeepers' Gazette"

Author of
"Non-Sporting Dogs," "Toy Dogs,"
"Everyday Ailments and Accidents to the Dog,"
"Sound and Unsound Horses," "Our Friend the Horse,"
"Breaking and Training Horses,"
"How to Choose a Horse," "The Horse Owner's Companion,"
"The Veterinary Manual," "The Age of the Horse,"
"Diseases and Accidents of Cattle,"
etc., etc.

Copiously Illustrated From Photographs







London
R. A. Everett & Co., Ltd.
1905
[All Rights Reserved]




Surely the lines--

  "Trust, oh! trust me, I will be
  Still true for ever, true to thee."

have never been more practically demonstrated, than in the following
extract, from an account of a poaching affray, published in the
_Gamekeepers' Gazette_.

"The dead gamekeeper's dog was to be seen by the roadside restlessly
waiting for its master, while he lay in a cottage fatally riddled with
shot."




                                  TO

                               BREEDERS

                       EXHIBITORS, AND FANCIERS

                                  OF

                             SPORTING DOGS

                    THROUGHOUT THE KING'S DOMINIONS




PREFACE


_This work_--Sporting Dogs: Their Points and Management in Health and
Disease--_has been prepared as a companion volume to those already
published, viz._, Non-Sporting Dogs: Their Points, etc., _and_ Toy
Dogs, _in response to numerous inquiries from readers of those volumes,
asking for a work upon Sporting Dogs, to complete the series_, at a
proportionate _price_.

The Points _of the various breeds used by Sportsmen have been freely
discussed, supplemented by illustrations from photographs of the most
celebrated animals known_.

_Kennel Management, The Management of Hounds, Diseases, Accidents and
Simple Operations forms an important section of the work--features
that should render the book of far greater practical utility than one
dealing solely with the different varieties of dogs._

_Both Author and Publisher, will be satisfied, if it meets with the
hearty reception accorded to the companion publications._

_In conclusion, the Author wishes to express most hearty thanks to
all Breeders and Exhibitors who have so generously supplied him with
Photographs: to_ Our Dogs Gazette; The Kennel Gazette; The Gamekeeper,
_etc._




                               CONTENTS


  SECTION A
                                                                  PAGE
  CHAPTER I                                                          3

  =The Pointer=

  Head--Colour--Eyes--Back--Hind-quarters--Faults--Value
  of Points.

  CHAPTER II                                                        18

  =The English Setter=

  Laverack Setters--Coat--Colour--Skull--Ears--Eyes--Neck
    --Back-quarters--Tail--Fore-lim