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going to see her one morning found her suckling six puppies 
to which she had given birth during the night. By the time 
of her littering, it is supposed that a terrier dog at Maidstone 
was the father. The puppies are now weaned, and yesterday, 
in company with a medical friend, of this town, I saw two of 
them. They are both of a fox colour. The other four were 
two black, and two brown. The bitch is in colour brown and 
tan, with a head and ears like a fox ; body dog-like, but more 
lengthy ; the tail is in length and make similar to a dog’s, 
except the under part, which is like the brush of a fox ; her 
bark is more like that of a fox than a dog, and when tied up 
she weaves or tramps backwards and forwards at the length 
of her chain like a tame fox : in fact her general appearance, 
except in colour, resembles more a fox than a dog. She kills 
rats quickly, and when loose with her owner (who only she 
will follow, being very timid and shy of strangers), should she 
for a time elude his vigilance, and there be fowls in her way, 
“woe betide them.” She also buries her food in the ground 
near her kennel. My object in sending this is, that I have 
never heard of or met with a similar case, and to ask, Is it a 
case of a Hybrid breeding? or is the produce between a dog 
and fox Hybridous or not? Blaine, in his Encyclopaedia of 
Rural Sports, says, p. 447, “ that the fox and dog will breed 
together we believe there are sufficient proofs, though the fact 
is yet disputed by some” But here is a case of the progeny of 
dog and fox breeding again. Perhaps, after all, you may 
know or have heard of a similar case ; if so, there is no harm, 
I hope, in writing you ; but such a fact never before having 
come to my knowledge, I thought I would just drop you a 
line upon the subject. With best respects, I am, dear sir, 
Your obedient servant,, 
Tunbridge, Kent; Bee . 14 , 1844 . 
[Hybrids are not necessarily sterile, although generally 
so. Such cases as the above are therefore not unfrequent. 
Mules are well known to breed in Spain and other countries. 
Buffon, also, observes that, in the city of Valencia, a horse and 
she-mule produced colts on five different occasions, and the 
same mule subsequently bore another colt by another horse. J 
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FOLLOWING LAMINITIS. 
Sir, — Deriving, as I do, some pleasure on the first of each 
month from the perusal of your Journal, perhaps it is a 
