Drawing Farm and Zoo Animals by Raymond Sheppard

Author:Raymond Sheppard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2018-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

A TRAINED SHEEP DOG

Its master held it in this position by signs and slight noises until I had made my sketch.

Compared with the Sheep dog, the Cattle dog is more variable in type and colour. Usually there is a predominant strain of Collie in his make-up but other breeds also contribute to it, producing an animal whose behaviour is rather more noisy and unrestrained than is that of the “true blue” Sheep dog. He, the cattle dog, is the one who meets you at the farm gate and makes the great hullaballoo, and he can probably trace a part of his ancestry back to the old Drover’s dog or Cur dog. He it was who helped the drovers, when they took their herds from the remote country districts where they had been reared, to the towns; for it must be remembered that before road and rail transport were invented this was the only way in which cattle could be moved to the markets and slaughter houses of the towns.

No one knows the true history and lineage of the domestic dog, for in some form or other he has been connected with man since the earliest recorded times.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.