Title: The dogs of Great Britain, America, and other countries. Their breeding, training, and management in health and disease, comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog
Identifier: dogsofgreatbrita02wals (find matches)
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: (Walsh, John Henry), 1810-1888. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Dog. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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142 WATCH DOGS, HOUSE DOGS, A^D TOY DOGS. zygomatic arches and cheek-bones, is so much larger than that of the spaniel of the same total weight of body, that the brain may well look small as it lies in the middle of the various processes in- tended for the attachment of the strong muscles of the jaw and neck. I have never been able to obtain the fresh brain of a pure bulldog for the purpose of comparison, but, from an examination of the skull, I have no doubt of the fact being as above stated. The mental qualities of the bulldog may be highly cultivated, and
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Fig. 28.—BULLDOGS, SMASHER AND SUGAR. in brute courage and unyielding tenacity of purpose he stands un- rivalled among quadrupeds, and with the single exception of the game-cock, he has perhaps no parallel in these respects in the brute creation. Two remarkable features are met with in this breed : First, they always make their attack at the head; and, secondly, they do not bite and let go their hoid, but retain it in the most tenacious manner, so that they can with difficulty be removed by any force which can be applied. Instances are recorded in which bulldogs have hung on to the lip of the bull (in the old days of baitr

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