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Dog whose tail curls over the back
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spitz
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Spitz are a type of dog characterized by long, thick, and often white fur, and pointed ears and muzzles. The tail often curls over the dog's back or droops. The exact origins of spitz dogs are not known, though most of the spitz seen today originate from ...
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n. Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed
Usage examples of spitz.
From Spitz, I recruited one Shepherd and one Doberman, and from a civilian boy, Bobby, I recruited Poncho, a fast, muscular Shepherd.
Two days later he handed me a requisition form for three new dogs, which I was to pick up from Carl Spitz, owner of the Hollywood Dog Training School, and the one who had worked with the 1st Platoon before it went overseas.
When I asked the colonel if Washington had specified what kind of dogs I was to get, he said no, I should get the best dogs Spitz had available.
For when it is stated, for instance, that the German Spitz dog unites more easily than other dogs with foxes, or that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily cross with European dogs, the explanation which will occur to everyone, and probably the true one, is that these dogs have descended from several aboriginally distinct species.
Spitz was the leader, likewise experienced, and while he could not always get at Buck, he growled sharp reproof now and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck into the way he should go.