CHAPTER XVI. 



Bad Breaking — Faults and Vices. — The trailing dog; 

 barking at liorses ; rabbit chasing ; egg sucliiing ; sheep 

 chasing; howling; muddy paws. 



MOST of the faults and vices that a dog 

 will display in the course of his career 

 can be avoided by care in breaking and a 

 knowledge of how to control certain undesirable 

 propensities. 



THE TRAILING DOG. 



A practice that most amateurs and some 

 professionals are apt to fall into, and one that 

 is prolific of undesirable results, is the work- 

 ing of a young dog with an older and expe- 

 rienced "companion. The most natural of pre- 

 sumptions is that the young dog will learn to 

 range and hunt from his running-mate. To 

 be sure a young dog will range away from his 

 handler better and farther if paced by another 

 dog, but in doing so he is neither hunting or 

 developing the courage, independence of char- 

 acter and all-absorbing interest in the quest 

 of game that are characteristics of a high-class 

 dog. He is not enlarging his fund of informa- 

 tion about the habits of birds, the likely spots 



