Possible Clues:

• Broken off end-piece fixed round
• Followed after dog being clipped
• The brute has got docked, it seems, in short
• Shortened and with a better follow-through
• Poor dog with appendage possibly docked
• Dog followed and cut short
• The poor brute has been shortened behind
• In short the poor brute got shortened in th end
• Clipped dog got temperature and suffered
• Shortened "dogged" to "dog"