Meaning of bull-terrier | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of bull terrier.

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“We ourselves have⟳ been applied to by a gentleman whose name⟳ is well known in the coursing world, for permission to cross some of his Greyhound bitches with the Bull-Terriers Tarquin and Sallust. The object of this was his desire to instill stamina and pluck into his breed⟳, which he fancied was degenerating in these qualifications, and need⟳ not be gone into here. The result⟳ of the first Bull-Terrier cross, in each instance, was a large-framed, though light-boned and rather narrow-chested dog, with, for a Bull-Terrier, very snipy jaws, and possessing the peculiar action of the Greyhound in a marked degree. The difficulty of breeding out the last⟳ point⟳ alluded to struck us the moment we saw⟳ the animals move⟳; and the original introducers of this blood into the Bull-Terrier – if there are such persons in existence – deserve⟳ considerable credit for their perseverance in their endeavours. However, not having the slightest desire to experimentalise in the matter⟳, we are unable to give⟳ further information as regards the cross, so far as it affects the Bull-Terrier, beyond the fact that the dog puppies were at once destroyed by their owner, the females alone being retained by him for the purpose of working out his experiment⟳.”

“The Bull-terrier was made from the Bulldog towards the end⟳ of the eighteenth century, for the Bulldog was found too slow in the dog-fighting pits, although its strength and courage were greatly to its advantage.”

“Long ago, in the days of bull-baiting, there existed dogs which resembled our present-day Bull-terriers, as can be verified by looking at old prints and at the illustrations in old books. These dogs were variously known as Bulldogs, Bulldog-terriers, and Bull-and-terriers, but it seems to the writer that it is from them that the modern Bulldog and the modern Bull-terrier are descended without much admixture of other blood.”

“I was confined to bed and shared my seclusion with the bull-terrier who volunteered to divide⟳ the bed with me.”

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