enjoys to walk out with its master: it listens for
his footstep, it whines in his absence, and it greets
his return. Fidelity, courage, and intelligence
are its attributes. It is the only animal which,
from a spontaneous impulse, allies itself to the
human race, shares with equal devotion the cottage of the peasant and the palace of the noble;
and claims a return of the attachment it manifests,
a return which every well-ordered mind will
willingly accord.”
The varieties of the domestic Dog-.are very numerous, and, as crosses of breeds comparatively pure are continually taking place, the production of mongrel-races becomes endless. Many attempts to classify the various known breeds have been made, of which we give one of the most recent, by the zoologist last quoted; which is curious, at least, as an enumeration of the well-marked varieties. Mr. Martin excludes the Dingo of Australia, and what he considers as “the true wild Dogs of India.”
| “1. Ears erect, or nearly so; nose pointed; hair long, often woolly ; form robust and muscular ; aspect more or less wolfish. | Feral[1] dog of Russia. Feral dog of Natolia. |
- ↑ Feral ; 2. e. wild, not by original condition, but by escape from domestication.
