Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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armer to stand at the ^ gate ^\ hen the sheep are loose on the mountain and send the dog oft alone to gather in the flock. Patiently itbrings all the scattered sheep together and then drives them, not too quickly,in the proper direction. Not a single lamb is left behind. When the sheepapproach the gate, through which they must pass, the dog stops some twohundred yards behind and allows the flocks to go through without beingunduly crowded. The writers have seen one dog handle over a thousandsheep ! When it becomes necessary to move sheep from one place to anotherthe job can often be done by two dogs and two men. A man and a dog walkahead of the sheep, while the other man and the best dog of the pair followbehind and keep the stragglers up to the mark. When the sheep dog is notworking it comes to heel; that is, walks three paces behind its master.The best school for sheep dog puppies is to send them out with old andexperienced dogs. The first thing the puppies do is to run the sheep too
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A BULL DOG AND BULL TERRIERS. DOGS OF ALL CLASSES hard and scatter them, but they soon learn. An old sheep dog represents thethe height of training and intelligence possible in a dog. It will obey a singleword or wave of the hand and never make a mistake, and if you want to seea sample of its skill you should watch one tackle a troublesome old ram thatkeeps trying to break away from the flock. Away goes the dog and its bigstrides soon overhaul the flying sheep. The dog seizes the wool on its neckand without biting the flesh and turns the ram back in a instant. You shouldalso watch a good sheep dog behind a flock of half grown lambs. The doghandles them as gently as a nurse and seems to coax them in the directionthat they ought to go. In the Arctic regions are found the eskimo dogs, short stocky little animalswhich are broken to harness and made to work. A team of these dogs \\ illcarry a great load many miles ; in fact much of the exploring and travelling inthose icy countries could n

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