Possible Clues:

• Type of dog; an obsolete forerunner of the card game faro
• Short-legged dog breed
• Hound bachelor with property
• Hound (named Fred?)
• Dog breed whose name literally means 'rather low'
• Dog's born with an advantage
• All to the good for one with short legs to lose its head
• Dog given fish to eat, filleted
• Dog, 5 creature, in speculation
• Beasts (anag.)