. 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. 458 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. very greatly in size, sometimes, as in the case of Copthorne Squirrel, weighing under 3 lb., or as much as 9 lb., which is the approximate weight of Ch. Copthorne Sieglinde. A mistake often made by novices is the. A MORNING MRS. HANDLEY WALK. SPICER'S GRIFFONS AT EXERCISE. 3ESIDES SEVERAL BROOD BITCHES. THE GROUP INCLUDES CH. COPTHORNE WISEACRE, C. BITTY. U. JOSEPHINE, THE VETERAN
. 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. 458 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. very greatly in size, sometimes, as in the case of Copthorne Squirrel, weighing under 3 lb., or as much as 9 lb., which is the approximate weight of Ch. Copthorne Sieglinde. A mistake often made by novices is the. A MORNING MRS. HANDLEY WALK. SPICER'S GRIFFONS AT EXERCISE. 3ESIDES SEVERAL BROOD BITCHES. THE GROUP INCLUDES CH. COPTHORNE WISEACRE, C. BITTY. U. JOSEPHINE, THE VETERAN C. PASHA, C. WIZARD. AND CH. C. TREASURE. attempt to breed from small bitches; not only is the result of such experiments, when successful, a lack of type and quality, but it is, in the present stage of the breed's -advancement, very dangerous. With Toy Pomeranians or Japanese or Miniature Black-and-tan Terriers, small size has pre- vailed very much longer than with Griffons, and the dangers of a throw-back are not so great. As a rule, the minimum weight at which a Griffon bitch should be allowed to breed is 6 lb., and 7 lb. is safer still. It is, I think, the invariable experience of breeders that small bitches have small litters of large puppies, while large bitches more often have larger litters which contain at any rate one or more small ones. In this connection it may be pointed out that weight is a particularly deceptive gauge with regard to Griffons, for the ideal Griffon is of the cobby, cart-horse build, and should therefore be compact, with plenty of bone and muscle (at the same time without being coarse). I have many times seen two dogs weighing 4 and 5| lb. respectively, and the dog of the latter weight was , undoubtedly the smaller I and better. The reason for this is, of course, that a dog of 4 lb. weight may be lanky, leggy, and lacking in bone and substance, whereas a dog. of the higher weight may look smaller by being more compact and " conkier " in e
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