Dog Breaking: The Most Expeditious, Certain, and Easy Method, Whether Great Excellence Or Only Mediocrity be Required, with Odds and Ends for Those who Love the Dog and GunJohn Murray, 1869 - Всего страниц: 355 |
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Стр. 60 - ... she stopped, evidently greatly puzzled, and after one or two trials, finding she could not take it up without permitting the escape of the winged bird, she considered a moment, then deliberately murdered it by giving it a severe crunch, and afterwards brought away both together. This was the only known instance of her ever having wilfully injured any game.
Стр. 60 - Hutchiusou relates that two partridges were shot at once, one being killed, the other wounded; the latter ran away, and was caught by the retriever, who on her return came across the dead bird; "she stopped, evidently greatly puzzled, and "after one or two trials, finding she could not take it up without per...
Стр. 268 - ... perfectly black, with the exception of a white fore-foot, and for hours together he would stand almost immovable on a small rock which projected into the stream, keeping his white foot hanging over the ledge as a lure to the fish. He remained so stationary that it acted as a very attractive...
Стр. 290 - We walked steadily on, and when within about thirty yards of her, up got a covey of red-legged partridges^ and we had the good fortune to kill a brace each. It is one of the characteristics of these birds to run for an amazing distance before they take wing ; but the sagacity of my faithful dog baffled all their efforts to escape. We fell in with several coveys of these birds during the day, and my dog ever after gave them the double, and kept them between the gun and herself.
Стр. 242 - The cunning of Foxes is proverbial ; but I know not if it was ever more remarkably displayed than in the Duke of Beaufort's country ; where Reynard, being hard pressed, disappeared suddenly, and was, after strict search, found immersed in a water-pool up to the very snout, by which he held a willow-bough hanging over the pond.
Стр. 6 - If flogging would make a dog perfect, few would be found unbroken in England or Scotland, and scarcely one in Ireland. 10. Astley's method was to give each horse his preparatory lessons alone, and when there was no noise or anything to divert his attention from his instructor. If the horse was interrupted during the lesson, or his attention in any way withdrawn, he was dismissed for that day. When perfect in certain lessons by himself, he was associated with other horses, whose education '•"•...
Стр. 242 - ... a willow-bough hanging over the pond. The cunning of a Dog, which Serjeant Wilde tells me of, as known to him, is at least equal. He used to be tied up as a precaution against hunting sheep. At night he slipped his head out of the collar, and returning before dawn put on the collar again, in order to conceal his nocturnal excursion.
Стр. xv - How in his mid-career, the spaniel struck, Stiff, by the tainted gale, with open nose, Outstretched, and finely sensible, draws full, Fearful, and cautious, on the latent prey ; As in the sun the circling covey bask Their varied plumes, and, watchful every way. Through the rough stubble turn the secret eye. Caught in the meshy snare, in vain they beat...
Стр. 11 - ... constitute his drill ; and these are enumerated and explained by the Colonel with such perspicuity (pp. 42, 46), that neither dogs nor men can henceforward [misunderstand them. One or two extracts will suffice to put our readers in possession of the principle of this private preparatory schooling : — ' Let no one be present to distract the dog's attention ; call him to you by the whistle you...