SPORTING DOGS

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 AssociationVeterinary 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]

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Surely the lines—

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

have never been more practically demonstrated, than inthe following extract, from an account of a poachingaffray, published in the Gamekeepers' Gazette.

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

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TO
BREEDERS
Exhibitors, and Fanciers
OF
SPORTING DOGS
throughout the King's Dominions

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PREFACE

This work—Sporting Dogs: Their Points andManagement in Health and Disease—has been preparedas a companion volume to those alreadypublished, viz., Non-Sporting Dogs: Their Points,etc., and Toy Dogs, in response to numerousinquiries from readers of those volumes, asking fora work upon Sporting Dogs, to complete the series,at a proportionate price.

The Points of the various breeds used by Sportsmenhave been freely discussed, supplemented byillustrations from photographs of the most celebrat