SPORTING DOG • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Sporting dog

... Adventures' 1854 volume 1 page 460. With respect to the jackal, see Prof. Gervais 'Hist. Nat. Mamm.' tome 2 page 61. With respect to the aguara of Paraguay see Rengger's work.), and became as sensible of caresses, and manifested as much intelligence, as any sporting dog of the same age. There is not much difference, as we have already shown and shall further see, in habits between the domestic dogs of the North American Indians and the wolves of that country, or between the Eastern pariah dogs and jackals, or between the dogs which have ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... "I was a sporting dog," he said, bitterly, "for the first three years of my life. I belonged to a man who keeps a livery stable here in Fairport, and he used to hire me ...

— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders