CHAPTER XI. 



THE DOG. 



THE WILD DOGS — THE DHOLE — THE ALPINE WOLF — THE DOMESTICATED DOG — REGARD IN WHICH 

 THE DOG IS HELD — ABHORRENCE OF THE DOG BY THE ORIENTALS — THE DOGS OF THE EAST — 

 THE DOG IN ANTIQUITY— THE MENTAL QUALITIES OF THE DOG — ITS MORAL SENSE— ITS AFFEC- 

 TION FOR ITS MASTER — RABIES OR HYDROPHOBIA. 



BEFORE we describe the Domesticated Dog, we must say a few 

 words respecting the dogs which still live a free, independent 

 life. In them we see what the dog was before he devoted him- 

 self to the human race. They represent the original, the Domestic the 

 modified, or, we may say, the humanized animal. 



Gray forms the following species into a genus which he calls CUON, 

 the members of which possess forty teeth. They are dog-like wolves. 

 The head is broad, the muzzle short, the ear erect and high, the eyeball 

 round, the body powerful, the fl;.nks thin, the tail bushy and drooping. 

 They are all animals fond of the chase and skillful in hunting. 



THE DHOLE. 



The Dhole, Canis Dukhtmcnsis (Plate XIV), sometimes called the 

 Kholsam, inhabits the western parts of India ; it is a very shv animal, 

 and avoids man and his dwelling-places. The Dhole is remarkable, not 

 merely for hunting in packs — as many of the Canidee do— but for the 

 possession by the pack of such confidence in its own powers that it will 

 give chase to the tiger. The boar falls a victim in spite of its tusks, 

 the antelope in spite of its swiftness, and the panther finds its only safety 

 in taking refuge in a tree. 



The color of the Dhole is a rich bay, and it stands as high as a small 

 greyhound. It hunts mute, and has a very intelligent face. 

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