. 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. Dogs. 49- THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. carried curled over the back, and a hard deep coat, which lengthens to a ruff about the neck. In colour the Iceland Dog is brownish or greyish, sometimes dirty white or dirty yellow. A frequent distribution of colour is black about the head and along. ELK-HOUNDS CLINKER AND KING. PROPERTY OF MAJOR A, W. HICKSBEACH. the back, broken by patches of white, with the under side of tlie b
. 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. Dogs. 49- THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. carried curled over the back, and a hard deep coat, which lengthens to a ruff about the neck. In colour the Iceland Dog is brownish or greyish, sometimes dirty white or dirty yellow. A frequent distribution of colour is black about the head and along. ELK-HOUNDS CLINKER AND KING. PROPERTY OF MAJOR A, W. HICKSBEACH. the back, broken by patches of white, with the under side of tlie body, the feet, and tip of tlie tail dirty white. Mrs. McLaren Morrison has possessed specimens of the breed. In the variety of the northern dog known as the Wolfspitz we doubtless have the origi- nal type of Pomeranian, through which the derivation of the breed is traceable step by step through the dogs of Lapland, Siberia, Norway, and Sweden, to the wolf's first cousin, the Eskimo dog, growing at each step to resemble the wolf more and more. Lhe Wolfspitz is the largest of the Pomer- anians. He dern'es Iris name from his wolfish colouring. On account of being much used in Germany by carriers to guard tlieir A'ans, he is also called the Fuhrmanus- spitz or carrier's Pomeranian ; the smaller black or white Poms being called simply Spitz, black or white, the dwarf ^•ariety now so popular being the Ziccrgspttz. ;\Ir. Charles Kammerer, an English speak- ing cj'nologist residing in Austria, not un- known to several of our more cosmopolitan judges, has made a speciality of this breed. and has bred them to the great size of 22 inches at the shoulder—the height of a fair-sized Eskimo dog—and weighing as much as 60 lb. or more. The Wolfspitz has on several occasions been exhibited of late years at English shows. Possibly the first was a very handsome specimen called Kees, shown by a Miss Beverley at one of the Ladies' Kennel Association shows as a Meeshond, this being simply the D
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