{"id":268,"date":"2010-05-25T03:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T03:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2011-05-13T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:00:39","slug":"the-dog-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"The Dog-Wolf."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;Wolf-Hunting in Lower Brittany.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I was fortunate enough that night to sit next to the Count de Kergoorlas at dinner, and, hearing he was a master of wolf-hounds in Upper Brittany. I gleaned from him some interesting information with respect to the style of a hound he considered best adapted for his particular sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A big, bold, broken-haired hound is what I kept for the work; and occasionally I invigorate the race, &#8220;with a strain of wolfblood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;And how, pray,&#8221; I inquired, &#8220;do you manage that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Nothing is more simple. The dog and the wolf being cougeners, they breed readily together; nor does the law affecting mules affect the hybrid race, as the offspring of the first cross reproduce litters with thw same facility. I keep a dog-wolf brought up by hand; and he, suckled in infancy by a hound dam lives in perfect concord with any hounds I think fit to inclose with him in his kennel; while a day or two reconciles a strange hound to his company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;And do you find the first cross,&#8221; I asked, &#8220;as manageable in chase as your ordinary hounds?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Far from it,&#8221; he replied; insomuch that I only keep that produce to breed from. They usually run mute or all but mute, and are so self-willed in chase and so fierce in kennel that I merely use them as stud-hounds, and enter the second cross. These, the grand-offspring of the wolf, become rare wolf-hounds, fierce, desperate in chase, and never tiring during the longest day.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Wolf-Hunting in Lower Brittany.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I was fortunate enough that night to sit next to the Count de Kergoorlas at dinner, and, hearing he was a master of wolf-hounds in Upper Brittany. I gleaned from him some interesting information with respect to the style of a hound he considered best adapted for his particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,28],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}