On Hunting

Sections

1.1 – 1.6 1.7 – 1.10 1.11 – 1.13 1.14 – 1.18 2.1 – 2.4 2.4 – 2.6 2.7 – 2.9 3.1 – 3.3 3.4 – 3.7 3.8 – 3.11 4.1 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.5 4.6 – 4.10 4.11 – 5.3 5.4 – 5.6 5.7 – 5.9 5.10 – 5.14 5.15 – 5.17 5.18 – 5.22 5.23 – 5.27 5.28 – 5.29 5.30 – 5.31 5.32 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.5 6.6 – 6.7 6.8 – 6.9 6.10 – 6.13 6.14 – 6.17 6.18 – 6.19 6.20 – 6.22 6.23 – 6.26 7.1 – 7.4 7.5 – 7.7 7.8 – 7.11 7.12 – 8.3 8.4 – 8.7 8.8 – 9.2 9.3 – 9.8 9.9 – 9.12 9.13 – 9.16 9.17 – 9.20 9.20 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.6 10.7 – 10.8 10.9 – 10.12 10.13 – 10.16 10.17 – 10.20 10.21 – 11.1 11.2 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.6 12.7 – 12.10 12.11 – 12.15 12.16 – 12.20 12.21 – 13.4 13.5 – 13.9 13.10 – 13.13 13.14 – 13.18

İngilizce Yunanca

7.1 For breeding purposes, relieve the bitches of work in the winter, that the rest may help them to produce a fine litter towards spring, which is the best growing season for hounds. They are in heat for fourteen days.

7.2 Mate them with good dogs near the end of the period, that they may the sooner become pregnant. When they are near their time do not take them out hunting continually, but only now and then, or love of work may result in a miscarriage. The period of gestation is sixty days.

7.3 After the birth of the puppies leave them with the mother and do not place them under another bitch; for nursing by a foster mother does not promote growth, whereas the mother’s milk and breath do them good, and they like her caresses.

7.4 As soon as the puppies can get about, give them milk for a year, and the food that will form their regular diet, and nothing else. For heavy feeding warps the puppies’ legs and sows the seeds of disease in the system, and their insides go wrong.