Give a breed a name ................ (contd)

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Llasa Apso                          :  Tibetan apso, Llasa terrier, Bhuteen terrier.

Lurcher                                :  Poacher's dog.

Maltese                                :  Melita

Mexican Hairless Dog         :  Chinese hairless

Norwich Terrier                     : Trumpington, Jones or Cantal Terrier.

Old English Mastiff               : Bandog, Tie dog.

Old English Sheepdog

Old English sheep dog            :  Drover's dog, Bobtailed sheepdog !when crossed with collie), Bobtail.

Papillon

Papillon                                   : Butterfly spaniel, squirrel dog.


Pomeranian                             : Foxdog

Poodle                                     : Cninche (from canard = duck)

Rhodesian Ridgeback           :  Rhodesian lion dog, Safari dog.

Rough Collie

Rough Collie                           : Scotch collie

Saluki                                      :  Arabian or Eastern greyhound, Shami, Sleughi or Slughi.

Scottish Deerhound                :  Scotch or Highland greyhound.

Shetland Sheepdog                 :  Sheltie

Shih-tzu                                    : Lion Dog.Shih-tzu







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GIVE A BREED A NAME. . . . . .

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Many breeds have more than one name. Here is a list of some of them :

AFFENPINSCHER  : Monkey terrier

AFGHAN HOUND : Greyhound in pyjamas. Afghan or Persian greyhound, Barukhzy hound, Cabul hound.

AIREDALE : Broken-haired, Working, Waterside or Old English terrier

AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG : Heeler

BASENJI : congo dog

BEDLINGTON TERRIER : Gypsy dog

BLACK AND TAN TERRIER : Manchester terrier

BLOODHOUND :  Draughthound, Sluithound 

BORDER COLLIE : Old - fashioned sheep dog, Farm Collie, Working Collie

BORZOI : Russian Wolfhound

CHINESE CRESTED DOG : Turkish naked dog

CHOW CHOW : Chow, Wolf dog

CLYDESDALE TERRIER : Paisley terrier

DALMATIAN : Dally, Firehouse dog, Spotted dick, Plum pudding dog  

DINGO : Warragal or Native dog

ENGLISH SETTER : Laverack

ENGLISH TOY TERRIER : Toy Manchester, Toy black and tan or Miniature black and tan terrier or Apple - headed 'uns'

FILA BRASILEIRA : Dog of Acores

FINNISH SPITZ : Barking bird dog


GERMAN SHEPHERD : Alsatian wolf dog

GAINT SCHNAUZER : Riesenschnauzer, Munchen dog, Russian bear schnauzer

GRAND GRIFFON VENDEEN : Chien blanc du roi

GREAT DANE : Apollo, Grand Danois, Dogue Allemande, German mastiff, Vertagri, Bearhound, Tiger mastiff

IRISH SETTER : Big red

IRISH WATER SPANIEL : Tweed, North or McCarthy spaniel

KEESHOND : Dutch barge dog



More in my next blog.


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Polka Dots !!

The more I see of humans, The more I love Dogs  Dalmatian pups


Dalmatians are one of the most adorable breeds ! If you are planning to bring home a new pup, I would recommend you to try out this breed. They are most lovable, easy to maintain, always ready to please their owner. And, above all, they simply love children !!

Adopt one and you won't regret your decision .


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LOOK - ALIKES !!

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LOOK - ALIKES           
                Affenpinscher

Crocodile :                                                                                                         
Field Spaniel
A less than - polite 19th - century description - it was also called a CATERPILLAR.

Dacshund


LION      :

Bichon

Foo Dog (Imaginary Buddist Lion dog)

Lhasa Apso : Claimed to be true lion dog of Tibet.

Lowchen : The name means 'little lion'.

Pekingese

Poodle : In classic " lion" trim !

Rhodesian  Ridgeback : Originally called 'The Rhodesian Ridgeback lion dog' because it hunted lions !

Shih-tzu : Lion head, bear torso, camel hoof, feather duster tail, palm-leaf ears, nice teeth, pearly petal tongue and movement like a 'goldfish' is the original required standard.



MONKEY :

Affenpinscher

Cao da Serra de Aires

Pug


PIG/HOG :

Mexican Hairless Dog : The pups look like naked pink piglets, and the dogs have pig-like teeth.

Sharpei  : pig - like coat.



SHEEP :


Bedlington Terrier

Bergamasco sheep dog

Valee sheep dog

Komondor : Very much a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'.

Puli : Black sheep.

Braid

Pyrenees sheep dog

Catalan sheep dog

Old English sheep dog

Bearded Collie.


WOLF :


Alaskan Malamute : Said to be a dog/wolf cross or a tame wolf : it was claimed that bitches were tied to a tree outside camp so that they could mate with wolves !!


German Shepherd Dog : Called Alsatian wolfdog in post-war Britain.




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Diamond and Silver

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Thats my Mom with Diamond (GSD) and Silver.........................................

Nostalgic 60s                                                             Diamond and Silver

DHOLE: The wild dogs of India and Indonesia

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 THE DHOLE:

The wild dog found in India and in Indonesia, has been taken for a Dingo, but it is much fiercer and virtually untameable. It lives in the jungle and hunts by night. It resembles the  Malinois, or the Belgian sheepdog.

It has shown itself to have great courage. It lives in groups and can give a tough fight to the tiger, sending it clambering up a tree like a cat. It rarely attacks human beings, but does not appear to be afraid of people.

THE SIMIAN JACKAL OR FOX:

In Africa, and more precisely in the high montane grasslands of Ethiopia, lives the Simian jackal or fox. which resembles the Greyhound. It is, in fact , thought that it made its way from Ethiopia to Egypt, where it became the forbear of all modern Greyhounds.

THE MASTIFF OF PHY QUOC   

On the island of Phy Quoc, in the Gulf of Thailand, lives a sturdy Mastiff- like dog, in a semi-wild state. Its distinctive feature is that the coat along its backbone and up to its shoulders is lo0nger than elsewhere on its body, with the fur lying in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat, forming a sort of mane. The dog from Phy Quoc is believed to be the ancestor of RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK, by now a thoroughly domestic breed.

It too has a ridge of hair along its back, running in the opposite direction to the rest of its coat


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WILD DOGS : DINGO OF AUSTRALIA

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Wild Dogs : DINGO OF AUSTRALIA

Captain William Dampier, one of the first people to set his foot on Australian soil in 1688 wrote,' My men spied two or three wolf - like creatures. They were starving hungry, and skeletal  to the point where they looked like skin and bones.' What Captain William and his men saw was the Australian DINGO, the only original non-marsupial mammal of the continent.

When early Europeans arrived with their livestock, the ravenous dingoes attacked the flocks with such zeal that for centuries they became the shepherd's main enemy. From the very outset, the dingoes showed no fear  towards domestic dogs, and behaved with them as if they were kith and kin.

The dingo lives in small groups of five or six individuals belonging to a single family; in rare cases these packs may number up to a hundred animals. Australian aborigines  keep them for hunting purposes, each tribe having a couple of them.

The cubs can be found in the hollows of trees and are reared with a great deal of loving care. The Aborigines let the dingoes sleep in their huts, and  feed them with fish and meat.

Dingoes act timidly towards people, which is why the Aborigines never punish them; at worst they will simply scold them while they are hunting.

The dingo will mate with the dog and the offsprings are fertile. When they were mated with the English Sheep-dog or Scottish Collie, the outcome developed into the KELPIE, the highly intelligent Australian sheep-dog.

Like all the wild dogs, the dingo does not bark. The dingo is smaller and lighter than the wolf. The colour varies from tawny to straw to black. The feet and the tip of the tail are invariably white .

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PRESIDENTIAL DOGS

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PRESIDENTIAL DOGS


George Washington


French staghounds given to him by General Marquis de Lafayette in 1786, with voices like'The bells of Moscow'.

Abraham Lincoln


his dog had a premonition of his assassination and went berserk at the White House; his sons had a yellow mongrel called FIDO.

Warren G. Harding


LADDIE, BOY, Airedale, and OH BOY, white English Bulldog.

Calvin Coolidge


DIANA OF WILDWOOD, Shetland Sheepdog renamed CALAMITY JANE, an Airedale LADDIE BUCK, half brother of Harding's Laddie Boy and renamed PAUL PRY, a white collie named ROB ROY and a white collie bitch PRUDENCE PRIM.

Herbert Hoover


KING TUT - A police dog.

Franklin D. Roosvelt


FALA, a Scottish terrier, and BLAZE, a bull mastiff belonging to the President's son. In January 1945 Blaze was shipped on an Air Transport Command flight from Washington to Los Angeles and given an 'A' priority rating as a VIP, which meant that three servicemen were denied their places on board and had to hitch hike across the continent. The press, the Republican and the senate made a great drama out of the incident. Later that year Blaze had furious fight with Fala, nearly killing the Scottie, and was put down.

Harry S. Truman 


MIKE, Irish setter.

Lyndon B. Johnson


HIM and HER, beagles, BLANCO a white collie, and YUKI the mongrel.

Richard M. Nixon


CHECKERS the cocker spaniel and KING TIMAHOE the Irish setter.

Gerald Ford


LIBERTY, golden retriever.

Ronald Reagan


LUCKY, sheepdog.                                                             


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DOGS in LAW

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DOGS IN LAW


The Foo Dog or Buddhist Lion dog was an imaginary 'keeper of the Jewel of Law', usually portrayed in porcelain or wood with a ball under one foot. It has a lion's mane, shaggy tail, and a head like a Pekingese.

9th century Dog Laws
Alfred the Great 'taught even falconers and dogkeepers their business and made laws specifying compensation if bitten by a dog. Welsh laws of the same period mention three kinds of cur (Mastiff, House and Shepherd's).

10th Century Dog Laws
A king's buck hound or covert-hound was valued at one pound and a greyhound at six score pence. In 1080 a greyhound was worth half a buck hound.

11th century Dog Laws
No mean person may keep grey hounds. Before the time of Magna Carta, the punishment for destroying a grey hound was the same as that for murdering a man.

The forest laws of Henry II
Only the privileged few could keep grey hounds or spaniels in the royal forests. Farmers and substantial free holders could keep mastiffs for the defense  of their homes, but only if the dogs were disabled so that could not chase and seize deers.

Shogun Tsunayushi
The Dog Shogun  of the late 17th century passed a law that all dogs must be addressed politely and treated kindly. He ended up caring for a hundred thousand dogs himself at the cost of the exchequer. The resulting inflation brought about the introduction of an unpopular tax levied on farmers.


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FACE FACTS

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FACE FACTS ::


EYES :

'In Sporting dogs, eye colour is indicative of character and temperament. One should go for full dark hazel. Small eyes, particularly of light yellow - they are usually very difficult to train or control though, often good workers'.

Amber, Gold and yellow eyes                

Afghan Hound
Brittany Spaniel
Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Clumber Spaniel
Corgi
Fila Brasileira
Ibizan and Pharoah hounds
Weimeraner


SPECTACLES

Dandie Dinmont
Keeshond


HYPNOTIC EYES


Border Collie

BLUE EYES


Corgi
Kelpie
Siberian Husky
Weimeraner

WALL OR CHINA EYES


Old English Sheepdog
Smooth Collie

MOUTHFULS::


BLACK/PURPLE TONGUE


Sharpei
Chow Chow
Shar-peis have curved scimitar like canines for fighting. Hairlessness in a breed is genetically sex linked to missing teeth and sometimes missing toenails.

Pekingese teeth need frequent cleaning to avoid premature loss.
Lhasa Apso are prone to teeth disorder.


LONG EARS 


Basset hounds  have been described as dogs whose ears sweep the morning dew.
Bloodhound pups sometimes trip over their own ears.
Dachsund
Otterhound
Spaniels
Afghanhound
Saluki
Dandie Dinmont
Maltese
Irish water spaniel
Finnish hound

BLUSHERS::


Pharaoh Hounds : Their ears go pink with excitement                    

WRINKLES::


Basenji
Basset
Bloodhound
Bulldog
Bull Mastiff
Black and Tan Coonhound
Chow
Mastiff
Pekingese
Shar-pei
Tosa

UGLY MUGS


Boxer
Bulldog
Bull Terrier
Brussels Griffon
Shar-pei


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Clothes Dogs

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COMFORTER :

Small spaniels were used to cure human disorders; 'comforters' were pressed against the afflicted part, keeping it warm and sometimes effecting a cure simply because the patient believed it was possible.


DOG FUR :

Dog fur is generally thought much too inferior to be worn, except perhaps as a travel rug. But samoyed skins were worn as clothing by 18th century Siberians, and the coat clippings of Tibetan terriers used to be mixed with yak hair and woven into a soft, semi- waterproof cloth. Wool from poodles, Old English sheep dogs etc is sometimes spun and knitted by enthusiasts.

GLOVE/POCKET BEAGLE :

A very small dog from the Elizabethan times up to the 19th century, said to be small enough to be carried in a lady's glove, but in fact applied to any beagle under 10 inches high.

MUFF DOG :

Toy terrier small enough to slip into a muff and keep its owner's hands warm.

POWDER PUFF :

In hairless breeds, the occasional pup which is born with normal hair and teeth.


PYJAMA DOG :

Afghan hounds have been called 'greyhounds in pyjama'.


SLEEVE DOG :

Japanese spaniels and Chinese temple dogs carried in the loose sleeves of oriental gowns.


WATER-RUGS :

Shakespeare's description of the dog he used for hunting waterfowl on the Avon, probably an English water spaniel.

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DOGGIE SUPERSTITIONS

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SUPERSTITIONS


HOWLING :

It is a widespread superstition that a dog howls when there is a death. To quote Longfellow:

In the rabbinical book it saith:
 The dog howls when with icy breath,
Great Sammael, the angel of death,
Takes thro' the town his flight.

MANDRAKES:

In medieval bestiary, the only way to capture a mandrake root ( to which all sorts of magical powers were attributed) was by using a wolfhound to tear it from the earth.

OMENS :

An ancient Kaffir superstition was that bad luck should be expected if a dog leaped on to the roof of a hut. The Damara of south west Africa dreaded meeting a dog with one foot like that of an ostrich- a sign of impending death.

DOCKING :

Two thousand years ago docking a dog's tail was thought to prevent madness. The practice was encouraged in more recent times by taxation ( A bob tailed dog was a working dog)

DISCORD :

The Greeks thought that if a stone which had been bitten by a dog was dropped into wine, those who drank it would fall out amongst themselves.

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My GUIDE, AND MINE OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND

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GUIDE DOGS 

During world war I a German doctor noticed that a German Shepherd was very caring towards a blind patient, and he began experimental training to see if dogs could be used as guides for the blind.  Mrs. Dorothy Harrison, a wealthy American who bred Alsatians, saw the German training centre and wrote about it. Morris Frank , a blind American was inspired by her article and contacted Mrs. Harrison, who then set up L'Oeil Qui Voit in Vevey, Switzerland(1928) and also established the first guide dog school in USA. Morris Frank was the first guide dog owner in America, with his famous BUDDY.


In England, Mrs. Muriel Crooke, a dog breeder and trainer in Liverpool, and Mrs. Rosamund Bond, a breeder and exhibitor of Alsatians, met Mrs. Harrison and then began their own training classes at Wallasey. The classes eventually led to the formation of the GUIDE DOGS FOR BLIND ASSOCIATION in England.


BREEDS GENERALLY PREFERRED AS GUIDES FOR THE BLIND:


1.Labrador Retrievers
2.Golden Retrievers
3.German Shepherds
4.Collie
5.Dalmatian


















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The compulsive chaser

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THE COMPULSIVE CHASER


Some dogs are compulsive chasers. They enjoy running after small children - barking at them or even intending to bite. Occasionally the child falls and hurts himself and is scared half to death. The more the child screams and the faster he runs, the more persistent the dog is in his chase.

The performance of the dog is the master's  responsibility. He might be legally subject to arrest and conviction for owning a dog which is a public nuisance.

Children : You must catch the dog at the beginning of this tendency. It is the best for the puppy to grow up with young kids so that they become fast friends. At the slightest suggestion of his chasing a child, even if the puppy is 3 or 4 months old, he MUST be punished.  Be STRICT with your dog. Keep close supervision over him.

TRAINING :

  In training him not to run after children, take him out on a rope 30 to 50 feet long, and when he attempts to go after a child, jerk him back strongly so that it pulls him off his feet. You have to reprimand him severely and continuously. There should be constant supervision on your part when you allow the dog to play with children until he loses the desire to chase children.

Other Animals : The three most common objects of a dog chase are poultry, sheep and of course cats. The problem aggravates when the dog indulges in killing of other animals and gets the " taste of blood ". It then becomes extremely difficult to rehabilitate him. Most probably for the dog this is mere sports. He tends to enjoy his speed and dexterity with subsequent kill.

To train him not to attack and kill, you should make him familiar with the cattle and poultry right from his puppy stage. Again, close supervision is a must. Most of the dogs love to chase cats. This habit can be stopped if the dog grows up with with a kitten in the house. My personal experience with my Irish Setter shows this to be the effective method! They grew up to become the best of friends!!

There are many methods for curing the bloodthirsty habit. One method of curing a dog of killing chicken is to whip him over the head with the dead chicken and then tie the dead chicken around his neck until it practically rots off.

Cars  :  Car chasing is a sporting event for dogs; probably a primitive instinct which made them chase game for food. Nowadays chasing the big things on wheels is a substitute for the food finding instinct. Some breeds like the Collie are compulsive chasers , probably due to their herding instinct.

This habit is dangerous and can prove to be fatal if not checked at an early stage. One method of curing this habit is to get a friend who is a stranger to the dog drive by with a whip. As the dog approaches the car, he has to let him have it. Several sharp blows to the body should impress on him that there is pain associated with chasing cars.

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