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CHAPTER VI. 



WATCH DOGS, HOUSE DOGS, AND TOY DOGS. 



Bulldog.— Mastiff, Cubaa and English.— Mount St. Bernard.— Thibet Dog.— 

 Poodle. — Maltese Dog. — Pomeranian or Spitz. — Lion Dog.— Shock Dog. — 

 Toy Spaniels. — Toy Terriers. — The Pug Dog. — Italian Greyhound. 



The peculiarity of this division is that the dogs composing it 

 are solely useful as the companions or guards of their owners, not 

 being capable of being employed with advantage for hunting, in 

 consequence of their defective noses, and their sizes being either 

 too large and unwieldy, or too small, for that purpose. For the 

 same reason they are not serviceable as pastoral dogs or for 

 draught, their legs and feet, as well as their powers of maintaining 

 long-continued exertion, being comparatively deficient. These 

 dogs nearly all show a great disposition to bark at intruders, 

 and thereby give warning of their approach ; but some, as the 

 bulldog, are nearly silent, and their bite is far worse than their 

 bark. Others, as, for instance, the little house dogs, generally 

 with more or less of the terrier in them, are only to be used 

 for the purpose of warning by their bark, as their bite would 

 scarcely deter the most timid. The varieties are as follows : — 



