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bestow their affections ; and tender recollections are as 

 potent over them as they are known to be in other cases, 

 where higher animals are concerned. Bitches are not 

 always prudent in their loves, but are apt to fling them- 

 selves away on curs of low degree. If reared with a com- 

 panion of vulgar appearance, there often springs up between 

 the pair a devotion which no time can afterward subdue. 

 The passion, for such it really is, becomes of a more than 

 romantic endurance." Mr. May hew, who attended chiefly 

 to the smaller breeds, is convinced that the females are 

 strongly attracted by males of a large size.* The well- 

 known veterinary Blaine statesf that his own female pug 

 became so attached to a spaniel, and a female setter to a 

 cur, that in neither case would they pair with a dog of their 

 own breed until several weeks had elapsed. Two similar 

 and trustworthy accounts have been given me in regard to 

 a female retriever and a spaniel, both of which became 

 enamoured with terrier dogs. 



Mr. Cupples informs me that he can personally vouch 

 for the accuracy of the following more remarkable case, in 

 which a valuable and wonderfully intelligent female terrier 

 loved a fetriever belonging to a neighbor to such a degree 

 that she had often to be dragged away from him. After 

 their permanent separation, although repeatedly showing 

 milk in her teats, she would never acknowledge the court- 

 ship of any other dog, and, to the regret of her owner, never 

 bore puppies. Mr. Cupples also states that, in 1868, a 

 female deerliound in his kennel thrice produced puppies, 

 and on each occasion showed a marked preference for one 

 of the largest and handsomest, but not the most eager, of 

 four deerhounds living with her, all in the prime of life. 

 Mr. Cupples has observed that the female generally favors 

 a dog whom she has associated with and knows; her shy- 

 ness and timidity at first incline her against a strange dog. 

 The male, on the contrary, seems rather inclined toward 

 strange females. It appears to be rare when the male 

 refuses any particular female, but Mr. Wright, of Yelders- 

 ley House, a great breeder of dogs, informs me that he has 

 known some instances; he cites the case of one of his own 



*"Dogs: Their Management," by E. Mayhew, M. R. C. V. S., 

 2d edit., 1864, pp. 187-192. 



f Quoted by Alex. Walker, "On Intermarriage," 1838, p. 276; see 

 also p. 244. 



