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choke them off, without wnich resource they would scarcely ever be persuaded to let go. 

 From confinement to their kennels, they are often deficient in intelligence, and can rarely be 

 brought under good control by education. Owing to the same cause, they show little personal 

 attachment, so that they sometimes attack their friends as well as their enemics ; when their 

 blood is up. 



But, when differently treated, the Bull-dog is a very different animal, the brutal nature 

 which he so often displays being mainly attributed to the savage human beings with whom 

 he associates. Although, therefore, I am ready to admit that the Bull-dog often deserves the 

 character for ferocity which he has obtained, yet I contend that this is not natural to him, 

 any more than stupidity and want of affection, which may readily be proved to be the reverse 

 of his character, if any one will take the trouble to treat him in a proper manner.&quot; 



Cuvier avers that the Bull-dog has a brain that is smaller in proportion to his size than 

 any other of his congeners, and thus accounts for his lack of sagacity. Other writers dispute 

 this; however it may be, this dog is less valued than many other breeds for general purposes, 

 but is useful for crossing upon the less courageous breeds and tender-mouthed dogs, in order 



to give them courage and holding qualities. 

 The points of a well bred Bull -dog are as 

 follows : Head round, skull high ; eye 

 medium -size, and the forehead well sunken 

 between them; ears small and partially 

 erect, placed rather close together ; muzzle 

 short and truncate ; jaws heavy and strong ; 

 back short; chest deep and broad; legs 

 strong and muscular. The coat should 

 be fine and smooth, unmixed colors being 

 preferred, such as red, fawn, blue smut, 

 and white. This breed of dogs varies 

 greatly in weight, the larger varieties 

 sometimes weighing over seventy pounds. 

 They should be strong and muscular, with 

 out an excess of fat, courageous without 

 a blind, savage ferocity, intelligent, open- 

 ENGLISH BULL-TEERIEB. e y e( j ; deep-voiced, and not over affectionate, 



as it is generally thought that the Bull-dog most demonstrative in affection, is the most liable 

 to be treacherous. 



The Bull-Terrier. When properly bred, the cross between the Terrier and Bull 

 dog makes a valuable dog for all practical purposes, they being intelligent, obedient, affection 

 ate, and courageous; in fact, a valuable house dog, as. well as an exterminator of all that class 

 of pernicious animals that are liable to infest the farm. A leading English authority says of 

 them: &quot;Many of our smooth Terriers are slight crossed with the Bull-dog, in order to give 

 courage to bear the bites of the vermin which they are meant to attack. When thus bred, 

 the Terrier shows no evidence of pain, even though half a dozen rats are hanging on to his 

 lips, which are extremely tender parts of the body, and where the bite of a mouse even will 

 make a badly bred dog yell with pain. In fact, for all the purposes to which a Terrier can 

 be applied, the half or quarter cross with the Bull, commonly known as the Bull-Terrier, or 

 half-breed dog, is of more value than either of the purely bred progenitors. 



Such a dog, however, to be useful, must be more than half Terrier, or he will be too 

 heavy and slow, too much under-jawed to hold well with his teeth, and too little under com 

 mand to obey the orders of his master. Sometimes the result of the second cross, which is 

 only one-quarter Bull, shows a great deal of the shape peculiar to that side; and it is not until 



