<p><strong><span style="color: #bb0000;">ASSISTED BY EMINENT AUTHORITIES ON THE VARIOUS BREEDS</span></strong> <br /><br />Dogs And All About Them by Robert Leighton <br />is about the anatomy, behavior and care of almost all popular breeds of dogs. <br /><br />There is clear explanation of the origins of dogs, the types available and how each type behaves. <br /><br />The greatest feature of the ebook is how various types, Non-Sporting and Utility breeds, Hounds, <br />Gundogs and other Sporting breeds, the Terriers, Toy and <br />Miniature breeds bear close resemblance to each other yet distinct in reaction and appearance. <br /><br />Every Dog lover will surely love this highly-informative manual to breeds. <br /><br /><br /></p> <p>CHAPTER I <br /><br />GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DOG <br /><br />There is no incongruity in the idea that in the very earliest period of man's habitation of this world he made a friend and companion of some sort of aboriginal representative of our modern dog, and that in return for its aid in protecting him from wilder animals, and in guarding his sheep and goats, he gave it a share of his food, a corner in his dwelling, and grew to trust it and care for it. Probably the animal was originally little else than an unusually gentle jackal, or an ailing wolf driven by its companions from the wild marauding pack to seek shelter in alien surroundings. One can well conceive the possibility of the partnership beginning in the circumstance of some