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- From: kte@INEL.GOV (Kathryn L Cook)
- Subject: Re: On the breeds' original purposes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145827.7417@inel.gov>
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- Reply-To: kte@INEL.GOV (Kathryn L Cook)
- Organization: Idaho National Engineering Lab
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:58:27 GMT
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- In article <1h5ou2INNoj7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ce293@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gail E. Brookhart) writes:
- |><lots of stuff deleted>
- |> Many authorities believe that an early use for Dalmatians was as hunting
- |> dogs and they have been known to make passable retrievers and bird dogs.
- |> They were even used for boar and stag hunting. These qualities it could be
- |> argued might have been what attracted coachmen to handsome dogs with the
- |> wits and protective ability to guard the horses from highwaymen.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- I very well could be wrong, but I thought Dals were supposed to guard the
- horses from other dogs not from people. If this is the case your earlier
- suggestion of using them as a jogging guard dog is excellent. Although, you'd
- have to be willing to allow your Dal to get in alot of dog fights, as I
- assume this is what is meant by "guarding". On another note, I read that
- they had an endurance test at the DCA speciality. I believe the Dal had to
- run along side his horseback riding master for quite a distance.
-
- -Kayti
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