Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-06-17
LONGEVITY OF THE DOG AND THE HORSE


A notion has been long, and | believe,
generally cn;ertaincJ, that the pcrol Of
life allotted to quadrupcds, is 7 times the
length of their state OF inmauriiy ; or in
other words, if we suppose the dog, for in.
stance, 10 reach his growth in two years,
he will live fourteenth al least this by.
polhesis be correct, and feel inclined to
believe 1t both in the dog and horse. The
horse Goes not attain maturity till he has
completed his seventh year : consequently
he would live, if consigned 10 the mere na-
influenced operations Of nature. Till he was
40. But in order to place the subec: coll
rec,!y before the reader, it will be neceS-
sary 10 observe, in this place, that when !
speak O! The longevity of The horse and dog
as ex,enjing 10 seven times the rero o.
cupicd in their progress to matur ty, | ex-
clude those deterioraling Influences which
The seni.domes.i iration Of these two highly
increasing AMI elegant Guadrupeds have
cntailed upon them. y dog subjected to
extraordinary cyers'on becomrs worn ou
before he has reached his fourteenth year /;
pointer regularly used 10 rauge the mcors
beat the enclosures, &C., manltrs's every
symptom of advanced lfe by the time he
has completed his ninth year, if not before
such as deafness, defective sight, &C.
If we look d, the fox hound, whose dicipne
is more severe, and whose exerlious are
more exhausing, we shall perceive that by
the time he reaches his seventh year, he IS
no longer able 10 run up to or with the
pack; and 50 in regard to the horse, if he
be overstraincd or oycrworked, particu.
larry in early life, he becomes exhausted
accor 'lng'y.
The racer, subjected as he is to the
severe discipline of the training stable, and
tie desperate struggles of the course, and
that TOO in early life, uniformly shows a
premature old agc--.he one being the lnev.
liable resul; of the other, amounting merely
to cause and effect. Of all our racing
siallons not one has reached his49.h year:
Bay Bolton did in 1876, aged 81 years;
Competitor, the last surviving son OF
Ecliose, lived TO be thirty years old--he
died December 20, 1886; Matchem died
F,b. 81, 1881, acei thirty two years !;
Sampson dieI in l777, aged tIlFty.lw
years most Of the racing stations died
q, much earlier periods. -,
On the score of Longevity, "Old bIliy
stands alone, Gar removed from the whole
Of his kid. On Tuesday, Jul e. II. 1922,
visited Lau hford Lock, about mile from
Wsrring;on, for the lc purpos: Of seeing
or looking over, 4 horse which had abso.
Iutelv attained his sixty third year, and was
then rising sixt, .!ow! The horse belong
ed .o the M,rs.y and lrweIl NavI sailon
Company, and a, the time saw him his
,ee,b in front were perfect, but Of al extra.
ordinary length; while his bride tce'h'
or tusks after having grown uHoSC-
>ua.ly long had become some" hat lnverteo
describing an i'll defined senlicirce, when
convexed owards the upper jaw. t's
lower liz was neither so loose nor SO penda.
lous as wha, is generally seen in very ola
horses. His eye was very rcmaskao'e /:
i, arpea-ed 10 be differently placed IN The
socket 10 those Of al. other horses which
have fallen under my observation at 'ne
Same time it appeared so clear, and pre-
sen:ci altogether SO pcrFec: an apPoarancH
-, r.. aliH-;i ,2"n F,r:,cA rrce::r7'.~:' :'t