CHAPTER X 

 DOGS USED IN WORK (Continued) 



BULL DOGS BULL TERRIERS BOSTON TERRIERS 



AMONGST the most popular breeds of late years, has 

 been one that would not be generally expected to be 

 found in that capacity, although it is a very old and na- 

 tional breed. Perhaps I should say that, in reference to 

 all the companionable breeds I have mentioned in these 

 articles, I mean more especially kept by ladies, as when 

 one speaks of such dogs, one naturally thinks of an- 

 imals not chained to a dog box, or shut up in a kennel 

 outside, but brought into the house, and, literally 

 " treated as one of the family." I refer to the 

 Bull Dog, and having owned and had to do with 

 a great many of these, I can testify to their usual good 

 temper and placidity of disposition, in spite of the 

 many unfavourable comments we frequently hear 

 about them. Indeed, it is a rare thing to meet 

 with a bad tempered Bull dog, and the majority 

 of them will submit to great liberties being taken, even 

 by smaller dogs, rather than attempt to take their own 

 part, and have little idea of fighting in the style prac- 

 tised by some other breeds. But if they once make up 

 their minds to go for any person, or animal, they are 

 difficult to dislodge when they have taken hold. The 



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