. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . order to elevate the stifles should be round and turnedslightly outwards, away from the body,thus bending the hocks inward and thehindfeet outward. The hocks should bewell let down, so that the leg is long andmuscular from the loins to the point ofthe hock, which makes the pasterns short,but these should not be so short as thoseof the forelegs. The hindfeet, whilst beingsmaller than the forefeet, should
. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . order to elevate the stifles should be round and turnedslightly outwards, away from the body,thus bending the hocks inward and thehindfeet outward. The hocks should bewell let down, so that the leg is long andmuscular from the loins to the point ofthe hock, which makes the pasterns short,but these should not be so short as thoseof the forelegs. The hindfeet, whilst beingsmaller than the forefeet, should be round 48 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. and compact, with the toes well split up,and the knuckles prominent. The most desirable weight for a Bulldogis about 50 lbs. The coat should be fine in texture, short,close, and smooth, silky when stroked fromthe head towards the tail owing to itscloseness, but not wiry when stroked inthe reverse direction. The colour should be whole or smut,the latter being a whole colour with ablack mask or muzzle, It should bebrilliant and pure of its sort. The coloursin order of merit are, first, whole coloursand smuts, viz. brindles, reds, white, with. MR. JAMES DUNCANS CH. MAHOMET (BORN 1901) BY KHALIFA LADY DOROTHY Photograph by II. P. Dmuio. their varieties, as whole fawns, fallows,etc., and, secondly, pied and mixed differ considerably on the colourquestion ; one judge will set back a fawnand put forward a pied dog, whilst otherswill do the reverse. Occasionally one comesacross specimens having a black-and-tancolour, which, although not mentioned inthe recognised standard as being debarred,do not as a rule figure in the prize of the best specimens which the writerhas seen have been black-and-tans, and afew years ago on his awarding a first prizeto a bitch of this colour, a long but non-conclusive argument was held in the caninepress. Granted that the colour is objection-able, a dog which scores in all other properti
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