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Part 3: The History of Dog Carts
Dog Carts and Horse Carts in the Middle Ages
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Of English Dogs, Johannes Caius, 1576. Reprinted by Beech Publishing House, 1993. p. 32, 36, 37 ISBN: 1 85736 070 2.
Types of English Draft Dogs according To Dr. Caius
Water Drawer: And these be of the greater and the weightier sort, drawing water out of wells ... by a wheel which they turn about.
Tinker Cur: Because ... they bear big budgets fraught with tinker's tools and metal.
Turnspit: There is ... a certain dog excellent in kitchen service. For when any meat is to be roasted, they go into a wheel; which they turning round with the weight of their bodies; and so diligently look to their business.
Butcher Dog
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The following pictures show that some styles of dog carts are identical in form to horse carts and wagons in the Middle ages.
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Every Day Life of Travellers, Marjorie Rowling, page 15, Dorset Press, 1989. ISBN:0-88029-351-9
This circa 1340 AD picture is from the British Library manuscript, Royal 10 E iv, commonly called the
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Jacob van Maerlant, Spieghel Historiael, c. 1325-1335. MS KB, KA 20, folio 163 V
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European Dog Wagon
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Circa 1915 dog Cart
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Gaston Phoebus, Book of the Hunt, 15th Century
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Germany 1876: Butcher Dog Cart
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C. 1870s Sicilian Cart
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
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Quebec Water Wagon, 1930s
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Links
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Heavy Wheeled Plow pulled by mule or donkey
Harrow Pulled by Horse
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There is NO Dog Cart depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. There is a donkey or mule pulling a heavy wheeled plow. With some wishful thinking, this donkey could be mistaken for a German shepherd. When the donkey is compared to all the other dogs the Bayeaux tapestry, it is obvious the donkey is NOT a dog.
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