The Modern Airedale Terrier With Instructions For Stripping The Airedale And Also Training The Airedale For Big Game Hunting A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic

Author : Holland Buckley
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ISBN 13 : 9781332097869
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Airedale Terrier (Classic Reprint) written by Holland Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Airedale Terrier It is barely forty years ago since this, the largest breed of the Terrier family, was evolved, by the efforts of a few enthusiasts in Yorkshire, from a Witches' Cauldron mixture of Otterhound, the Welsh Harrier, and, in all probability, the Bull-terrier, the chief object being to breed a dog that could live in the water and tackle anything from a rat to an otter with unflinching gameness It is possible that the Sheepdog played some part in the manufacture. Breeders of recent years have ofttimes wished that the founders of the breed had been rather less catholic in their materials. All credit must be given to them for producing in so short a time a dog good to look at, and at the same time a good workman. Present-day admirers are lucky in their generation, nearly all litters now being fairly uniform in type and general all-round excellence. It was not so many years ago, one could, had he so minded, have benched specimens from any one litter in Airedale classes, Old English Terriers (alas! now defunct), Otterhounds, and Welsh Terriers, with a fair prospect of winning honours. Even now tragic reminders of the bar sinister will appear in the shape of dun-coloured pups in the most classic litters. The stumbling-block in the path of this fascinating breed has been for years the coat, but now, after long years of weary endeavour, a real natural wire jacket, straight in lay, is the reward of those breeders who have scientifically bred sheep coats out of their favourites. Fanciers who have never deviated from the cult of sound coats or nothing can now look upon the present agitation against trimming with perfect and happy indifference. An Airedale, bred on correct modern lines, needs no tonsorial aid, and is, without doubt, the happier for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.