Among themselves they frequently have quarrels and fights, in which they sometimes lose their lives.
They are extremely jealous if a strange dog approaches their territory, namely the street or square of which they have possession.

On such an intruder they all fall tooth and nail, and worry him until he either seeks safety in flight or remains dead on the spot.

It is therefore a rare circumstance for any person to have a house-dog with him in the streets.

It would be necessary to carry the creature continually, and even then a number of these unbidden guests would follow, barking and howling incessantly.
Neither distemper nor madness is to be feared from these dogs, though no one cares for their wants.

They live on carrion and offal, which is to be found in abundance in every street, as every description of filth is thrown out of the houses into the road.